[78-L] Last Canadian Columbia 78

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Feb 25 20:37:43 PST 2010


I have Waterloo. I used to have The Five Blobs but traded it to someone who 
really wanted it..never seen it on 78 or 45 since then.

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- 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 
> 
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