[78-L] The Beatles on 78

[Royal Pemberton]

And the Filipino 78s:  http://www.cool78s.com/philippines.html

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here's one guide to Beatles Indian 78s:
> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/kirkland/266/btls/in/in78.htm
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> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Matthew Duncan <duncdude2000 at yahoo.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> --- On Sat, 12/9/09, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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