[78-L] 'Modern' 78s.

[David Lennick]

DISC released a number of items on vinyl (good material, too) in 1947..so you 
could hear how rotten the recordings were without having to wade through all 
the asphalt of the usual pressings. Dubs from off center Russian 78s on twelve 
inch vinyl..wonderful. Wish they'd issued the Hovhaness stuff and all Jacques 
Rachmilovich's recordings on vinyl, but they had strange priorities. Did you 
know they put out 3 of FDR's speeches on vinyl? Never seen those in my life, 
but they're here in the 1947 brochure.

dl

David Lennick wrote:
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> I wonder how many here on the list have any styrene 78s?  I have three of
> them, one on Gee, the other two on Mercury.  And one of those is a
> Childcraft series Christmas item, on opaque red styrene, in a picture
> sleeve.
> 
> (Quoted without usual indication since the first line was missing on 
> Sympatico's version of this message but it was intact over on Yahoo Mail.)
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> Prom 78s were styrene, I think. Funny, I can think of many more examples of 
> that crap being used for LPs and 45s than for 78s.
> 
> dl
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