[78-L] Eurovision on 78

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

My belief is that there is no such thing as a Western European agenda, 
regarding 45s. British EMI left their French counterpart free to do 
exactly what they wanted.

Companies such as Philips (Dutch) and Polydor (German) rebelled against 
the RCA Victor format, and they played two different formats against 
it: the 7" 78rpm Minigroove, and the Variable-Grade 78rpm, 
respectively. Without any success, of course.

When was the first 45 produced in Germany ? I'd like to know. I guess 
it was later than elsewhere, am I wrong ?

BC
Le 3 mai 09, à 13:26, Kristjan Saag a écrit :

>
> I wrote:
>> The rest of Western Europe followed the North American agenda: Sweden
>> issued its last
>> 78's in 1958, Germany about the same time, France as well...
>
> Bertrand Chaumelle wrote:
>
> France did not follow the Western Europe agenda regarding 78s. The main
> plant (EMI, two thirds of the French market) stopped making them in
> 1956. Other (smaller) labels were a little slower.
> --
> But that IS the Western European agenda, apart from Britain.
> Certainly all record companies didn't stop producing 78's at the same 
> time.
> The format was phased out gradually, in Sweden and Germany as well as 
> in
> France. Odd labels (for children's records etc) could operate well 
> into the
> 1960's, while some of the big companies, like EMI in France, stopped
> supplying the 78 format a few years before 1958.
> Britain was an exception because most major labels still issued most of
> their (singles) catalogue in both formats in 1959, and many were
> comparatively late offering the 45 rpm format at all.
> Then, in 1960, everything changed and by the end of the year the last 
> 78 on
> a major label in the UK was issued.
> Another example of British conservatism regarding formats was the 
> production
> of pre-recorded reel-to-reel tapes, which didn't come to an end before 
> 1970.
> Kristjan
>
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