[78-L] Last 78's-WAS: acoustic recording

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Sat Feb 13 16:16:46 PST 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> I'd thought 'A certain smile' by Johnny Mathis was the last US Columbia 78
> (41193), but I can't remember where I read that.  So what were the final 
> US
> and Canadian Columbia 78s?
>
I don't know; however, with a bit of digging, I could tell you the highest 
catalog
number I own on Col(C and US). Fifties Columbia 78's were pressed up here
by Quality...andas a result show their issue dats on the labels. IIRC, I 
have seen
dates up to 7 or 8/59...?!

Steven C. Barr 




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