[78-L] 78s - Capitol/ Parlophone/ The Beatles

[David Lennick]

Maybe someone here can help, since I'm getting no useful information from 
dealers or so-called Beatles experts. A tape was left with me and it's a 
Beatles Press Conference, recorded in Toronto in 1964. No question about its 
authenticity since I knew the DJ who recorded it and it's on a brand of tape 
that was available only at that time. I'd like to suggest to the owner that we 
sell it, but not if it's only going to bring in a couple of hundred dollars at 
best. I know it's not the only one in the world (in fact a list member has one 
that he recorded himself). Anyone got any input?

dl

On 8/29/2010 5:39 PM, agp wrote:
> At 16:20 29/08/2010, you wrote:
>> You mean to say no one has released (digital or analog) copies of the 78s?!!
>> Mal
>
> To the best of my knowledge no one has counterfeited them either.
>
> Many Beatles collectors do not know of their existence. I could see
> some enterprising bootlegger putting together a Beatles 78 CD
> compilation, just as the singles compilations, but that would be a
> stretch. I may try to sequence stuff based on the UK mono singles
> mixes just to see what it sounds like.
>
> There is one up on eBoo right now -- starting price is US$1,295. In
> my estimation based on my knowledge of the market and the items,
> that's a bit high by maybe a couple hundred russbucknicks. The fact
> of the matter is that they SEEM to be a bit more prevalent these days
> than they had in the past, so maybe some factory in the back streets
> of Bombay is pumping them out :-)
>
> T
>