[78-L] Were classical 78 rpm sets made into the early 50's?

[David Lennick]

I bought a Fritz Kreisler ten-inch set in a store in Montreal in 1967, unsold 
stock. Again, it was from about '46. My dad bought dozens of "new" 78 albums in 
the early 50s, especially Columbias, once the great 78RPM purge began. A couple 
of years before that he'd been picking up single 12" Red Seals and Columbias 
that were dumped this side of the border, all new.

dl

On 11/17/2013 3:18 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> I remember buying Harl MacDonald's "My Country at War" suite off the shelf as a 78set around 1960, but I think this set was reviewed in the 1947 "Record Book" by David Hall.  I was surprised because he commented on the fine sound and yet I find this set one of the poorest sounding 78 sets I know of - very wooden sounding.
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>> From: Matthew Duncan<recordgeek334578 at yahoo.com>
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>> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 2:30:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Were classical 78 rpm sets made into the early 50's?
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>> I have a document somewhere (probably in storage) that lists 78s still available on Columbia in 1961 for order.  This is in Britain and there were some sets on the list with quite late DX prefixes on the catalogue numbers, so would imagine some of those would be mid 50s sets - others would be older ones that were simply still available to buy.
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>> Matt in Blighty
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>> On Sunday, 17 November 2013, 18:56, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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>> Some Mario Lanza albums were on 78 very late. The Columbia set "The Union" was
>> on 78s, as was the Kismet cast album.
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>> dl
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>> On 11/17/2013 1:13 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
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>>> Like perhaps 1953 or 54 for example? Or did they stop being made before that like in 1951 or 52 since the LP record was out in 1948? Reason I'm asking is a have 2 45 rpm classical sets from RCA&   1 Capital 45 rpm set with all 3 made in the early 50's which is why I'm asking the question about whether they may have been 78 rpm albums issued too of these or of other 45 rpm albums released in the early 50's. Anybody know?
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