[78-L] The Beatles on 78

[D P Ingram]

On 13.9.2009, at 1.29, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>
> The last known shellac-like pressing (at the Orlake pressing plant in
> Dagenham, UK) was made for Paul McCartney's private pressings of the  
> 1958
> demo reissue of "That'll Be The Day"/ "In Spite Of All The Danger".  
> This was
> being done in 1981.

Thanks. I wonder (hypothetically) what the costs would be to gear up a  
small scale 78 rpm shellac production line.  I.e. would there be  
enough "anoraks" in the world ready to buy a few disks to cover the  
costs. A bit like an older day "tape project".

Darren

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