[78-L] post 1960 Canadian 78s

[David Lennick]

Manhattan Spiritual charted in December 1958 so it probably would have been in 
the presses early in 1959, but it could still have been in print late that 
year. For what it's worth, I had a tour of the Quality plant in the early 70s 
and I was told that they still had the parts for every record they'd ever 
pressed since 1950..what a pity all that stuff was probably melted down when 
380 Birchmount closed! By the mid 90s, what remained of "Quality" was a 
business selling K-Tel type crap and non-musical merchandise out of a small 
warehouse in north Scarborough. The name and possibly the rights to the 
catalogue went to Direct Source at some point, since some compilations I did 
for them (4-CD sets of WWII music, movie stars etc) were on the Quality label.

dl

On 2/9/2011 3:31 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> I would just like to comment that at some point in my youth, I believe it was
> after 1960 because I was in High School at the time and I started H.S. at the
> end of 1959, I visited the Quality Record factory in Scarborough and saw them
> pressing 78s;  in fact I remember that they were pressing "Manhattan Spiritual"
> on the Jubilee label.  We were given souvenirs like sheets of record labels
> which I was too stupid to hang on to.
>
> db