[78-L] Questions: 78 RPM production in the 1950's

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

It may have been a vinyl 78 as some late 50's 78's were or a mix of vinyl & 
maybe something else? My 1957 Pat Boone 78 of Why Baby Why & I'm Waiting Just 
For You on the Dot label is stiff as a board. Not flexible at all....




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When I frist began collecting I found a 78 of George Hamilton IV "A Rose 
and a Baby Ruth/If You Don't Know" on ABC-Paramount.  That song came out 
in 1960. It was my first hint that they were pressing shellac much  
longer than I had assumed.

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On 4/6/2011 2:01 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> Interesting observation: My dad told me that in the fifties in The
> Netherlands a lot of the "less cultural" music : bebop, R&B ... actually
> black music... wasn't even imported directly truogh the official channels...
> You only could find Blue Note LPs or blues , etc second hand (also
> in "official" record shops too). They were mostly brought in form sailors or
> other people going to the US regularly (like on board of ships of the
> Holland- America line). This was a kind of underground distribution
> system... Even second hand Blue Note Lps were selling for 25 guilders then
> which was half a month salary of a lot of people then... Almost everything
> else was still on 78...Maybe not sold or dumped in the US but cherised over
> here!!!
>
> Erwin
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Steven C. Barr<stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:
>
>> From: "Cary Ginell"<soundthink at live.com>
>>> My favorite haunt was an old man in Fort Worth who had a barn that was
>>> literally filled with nothing but 78s. There were shelves of records that
>>> went up to the ceiling, piles of records in aisles waist high like snow
>>> banks, and the whole place was carpeted with broken records so every time
>>> you walked or moved your feet there was a crunching sound. I got lots of
>>> nice stuff from him - he used Docks' first edition as a pricing guide,
>>> which means I did well on Bluebirds and Vocalions. The most expensive
>> item
>>> I bought from him was Blind Willie McTell's "Stole Rider Blues" on Victor
>>> for $40. Most everything else was less than $10. This was in the early
>> 80s
>>> and he has long since passed away but I always wondered what happened to
>>> all those thousands of records that I left there.
>>>
>> This sounds a lot like Jim Hadfield's place well east of Toronto (as
>> Lennick
>> can attest!). He had a barn FULL of 78's and some "better" stuff in his
>> house...and VERY reasonable prices as well. This is where I got my
>> "Radiex records are now electrically recorded!" promo/sample record
>> (which seems to be unknown otherwise...?!). Jim knew of my interest
>> in GG stuff, and had set this 78 aside for me; IIRC it cost me $3...!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr