[78-L] The Beatles on 78

[Matthew Duncan]

I believe that the Beatles 78s available in India were issued a year or so, maybe two years after the respective issues in the UK until in the late 60s they caught up...by the late 60s India were issuing 78s by the Beatles that were issued as 45s in the UK, as album tracks and also used various catalogue numbers so not always sticking to the UK numbers...
 
Around 1970 Beatles 78s issued in the mid 60s could still be bought new in 
India but how long after 1970 they were available I don't know....and I have no 
info on the Phillipines issue(s)...
 
hope this sorta helps??!!
 
Matthew.

--- On Sat, 12/9/09, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:


From: agp <agp2176 at verizon.net>
Subject: [78-L] The Beatles on 78
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, 12 September, 2009, 5:13 PM


Because it is only tangentially aligned with 78s, it should come as 
no surprise that no one here mentioned the re-release of the entire 
Beatles (original) catalogue on CD. This is no doubt to the joy of 
many here. Troublemaker that I am, I shall do so and just have.

That said, a few comments, if only to hear my own typing. I do feel a 
wee bit ripped off. EMI packaged everything in digi-paks and not 
proper jewel cases, meaning that the packaging is easily ruined 
because it is all cardboard. These suckers will look like crud in a 
few years. Then there is the mono set -- with all the originally 
released mono lps available on CD. The key word is 'set'. Yep -- no 
individual issues -- they did a Bear Family on the buying public.

But enough about that -- what I would love to see EMI do as regard 
78s is the following: a commemoration of the Beatles on 78 via a 
limited edition re-issue/ reproduction of the Indian  78 rpm of Love 
Me Do. I would also like to see a release to the pubic of a 
commemorative 78 reproduction of the 78 rpm acetate of That'll be the 
Day and In Spite of All the Danger as recorded in 1958. It would have 
made a superb 50th anniversary collectors item last year.

But back to the Indian and Philippine's issues -- does anyone if EMI 
in India released stuff in lock step with the UK release dates -- or 
shortly thereafter. To the point, would the 78 of Love Me Do, as 
catalogue number R 4949, have come out around the same time as the UK 
45, or would EMI have essentially used a 'back' catalogue number for 
a later release. A similar question goes for the Philippines release 
of From Me to You as catalogue number EG 8883-1 via Mico 
Manufacturing -- what would the release date have been for this.

T

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