[78-L] Now here's a late (non-US) Columbia

[Anthony G Pavick]

At 22:16 04/02/2012, you wrote:
>Except that it wasn't exactly reggae.
>The musical term "reggae" wasn't used before 1968. Dekker's "007" was a
>ska tune, or slowed-down ska: rock-steady.
>Undastan?
>Kristjan

That is quite correct! I can't really think of any reggae that showed 
up on 78 although its predecessors certainly did.

Certainly outside of Jamaica this one of few examples on 78 of the 
very near relatives of reggae that I can think of. By near relatives, 
I'm thinking ska and blue-beat and not calypso and mento. Only blue 
beat I can think of, and its a stretch, is My Boy Lollipop by Barbie 
Gaye on Darl in 50s. That said, though the potential for Millie's 
version as issued in 1964 on Fontana to show up on 78 somewhere, as 
well as tracks by the Migil 5 on Pye to show up (especially in the 
Philippines) are very possible.

And yes - -I'd think I'd rather have this than a Beatles 78

T