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

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

That's right. The singles were geared to the regular market. The EPs 
(four titles) too. The 6-titles (Little LPs) were exclusively for 
jukeboxes, as conceived by a guy from Seeburg.

The idea was to abandon the 45 speed. And it was a worldwide plan. It 
was succesful in part of South-America, Japan (who kept both speeds) 
but it failed miserably in Europe. I've seen some French RCA 7" sleeves 
with this on the back:
"The 78 is dead
The 16 is stillborn
Let's get rid of the 45 !"

BC
Le 17 déc. 08, à 06:30, David Lennick a écrit :

>
> 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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