[78-L] 'Modern' 78s.

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
> At 06:53 AM 7/29/2009, you wrote:
>>You forget that quite a few 78s were already being pressed in vinyl
>>during the 50s, before major companies ceased to issue 78s. Indeed, I
>>have several of them.
> Who was doing that besides RCA Victor & Liberty? 
> 
Victor experimented with vinyl 78's during the shellac shortage created
by Japan's rapid WWII advance in Asia. They apparently decided that
those wouldn't last on older "heavy arm" turntables...but they DID offer
the near-noiseless vinyl records to radio stations on request.

I don't know if other record companies did the same...?!

Steven C. Barr