[78-L] Break open that piggy bank NOW..this is it ^

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Dec 16 21:30:13 PST 2008


Weren't the Compact Singles a short-lived commercial series? The juke box 
pressings had 2 or 3 tracks per side and the ones I've seen came in plain 
sleeves, but slicks were provided for the juke box operators to display.

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> 
> Beyond that...these 33.3rpm "LP singles" were pressed specifically for
> jukeboxes which played them at higher prices. They were NOT (AFAIK)
> sold to ordinary record buyers. Thus, they don't exactly abound...which
> means the typical "Elvis collector" (by definition a completist...!) will
> pay really STUPID prices for them!



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