[78-L] Last Canadian Columbia 78

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> This was discussed on 78-L in 2005 and I saved the following info, so we 
> would know forever:
> "What is the latest catalog # for 78s on the Canadian Columbia label? Were
> the 1958 and '59 issues all country music or were there some pop issues 
> thrown
> in as well?
> Five Blobs is 41250. Waterloo is 41393. I asked because I just got a copy 
> of
> "Five Feet High & Rising"/"I Got Stripes" by Johnny Cash which is 41427 
> and
> charted beginning in August 1959. That's the latest one I've seen; the 
> Horton
> (Battle of New Orleans) is 41339.
> Cary Ginell"
>
Canadian Columbia 78's from the fifties were pressed by Quality...and as a 
result usually
displayed mm/yy on their labels! I'd have to find the right milk box to see 
what my last-
issued Columbia(C) 78 was; I know it was from 1959!

Steven C. Barr