[78-L] post 1960 Canadian 78s

[Kristjan Saag]

Both Reg Owen's version (on Pye) and Francis Bay's (Philips) were issue 
on 78 rpm in Britain in January 1959.
Bay's was the better one, IMHO - had som attractive wordless female vocals.
Kristjan


David Lennick skrev 2011-02-09 21:45:
> 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
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