[78-L] Mercury co-founder dies

[David Lennick]

Columbia had already announced phasing out of 78s in the spring of '57. But 
Canada kept them well into 1959 and 1960 (in fact, Quality was pressing Savoy's 
78s for the US market in 1958..what's this got to do with Mercury? I forget).

dl

On 1/5/2015 6:12 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
>
> 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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