[78-L] Mercury co-founder dies

[Royal Pemberton]

He was also the person who decided Mercury would stop pressing 78s in
mid-1958 based on the sales breakdown of the then-current Platters
single 'Twilight time'....98.2% of the total sales were for the 45,
the remaining 1.8% for the 78 (according to a Billboard article I once
saw).

On 1/5/15, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
>
> It is now.
> http://www.examiner.com/article/mercury-records-co-founder-irwin-steinberg-dead-at-94
>
> Jazz Promo Services sent it to his list, I forwarded it to feetsbook a few
> minutes ago, and no it hasn't been on 78-L yet.
>
> dl
>
> On 1/5/2015 5:51 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>
>> This may have been mentioned elsewhere - as far as I know it may have
>> been "the" topic on Facebook  for the past week, but I believe I saw no
>> mention of it on 78-L.
>> Seems that Irwin Steinberg, co-founder of Mercury Records, died on Dec.
>> 29 at the age of 94, at his home in Brattleboro, Vermont.
>> This even made The Maui News, our local newspaper.
>> But nothing on 78-L.
>> Sigh.
>> Malcolm
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