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- W868710192 abstract "Little Wonder Records and Bubble Books: An Illustrated History and Discography. By Tim Brooks and Merle Sprinzen. Denver, CO: Mainspring Press, 2011. This is a relatively big book about a seemingly small subject. Selling for a dime between 1914 and 1923, the Little Wonder disc is a one-sided record measuring 5-H inches in diameter, only slightly bigger than a modern compact disc. I do not call them 78s since many Little Wonder sound best at 80-rpm. Performances last around 110 seconds. Henry Waterson and Victor Emerson launched the tiny product, taking a big business risk. Could a record be priced at ten cents and still yield a profit? The discs did generate revenues. Perhaps they were too lucrative since lawsuits followed the marketing of this little disc, Emerson suing Waterson for more compensation. Emerson and Waterson were minimalists, pushing the industry to a new kind of limit. How short can recorded performances be and still sell? Popular songs thrive on repetition, a new melody or fresh chord progression likely to strike listeners as catchy when it reappears--and then reappears again. Records that are too brief simply don't become hits (among the least popular Beatles recordings is Her Majesty, lasting 23 seconds). But Little Wonder discs are not much briefer than 45-rpm recordings of the mid-1960s. Little Wonder discs do have room for the repetition needed in popular songs though they lack space for, say, the banter found on Collins and Harlan records of this period issued by Victor or Columbia. I've stressed popular songs, but Little Wonder does not ignore opera. Indeed, an Italian branch of Little Wonder marketed (in its 0200 series) tenor and baritone arias from such warhorses such as II Trovatore, Lohengrin, Aida, and Faust (but you won't find a complete Parsifal performed by the Little Wonder Opera Company). This new book is really an expanded and improved version of a booklet credited to Tim Brooks and published with spiral binding in 1999 by the New Amberola Phonograph Company. That 1999 booklet itself grew from an earlier article printed in a hobby magazine. From a little acorn grew a great oak--or at least a fine book. This new and bigger edition is credited to two authors: Brooks with Merle Sprinzen. Bubble Books (also small records from this era) are now covered in addition to Little Wonder discs. However, Bubble Books are discs for kids, so that creates a Catch-22. The authors recognize that Little Wonder discs are important enough for treatment in a book, but to fill out that book, the authors include pages about Bubble Books, thereby trivializing the Little Wonder phenomenon. …" @default.
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