[78-L] What Year is End of 78 Days?

[Malcolm]

Thank you, Kristjan!
Malcolm

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On 3/14/2020 5:53 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> Fifteen years ago I made a list of last 78's, according to reports by 78
> l-members, literature etc.
> Here it is, with a few additions:
>
> 1958 last 78 rpm on major Swedish labels (Swedish National Sound
> Archive) Children's records a few years more.
> 1958 last German 78 rpm (check Rainer Lotz on this one!)
> 1959 last 78 rpm in Australia (Ross Laird 78-L April 6 2001)
> 1960 last EMI 78 in the UK: Russ Conway: "Royal Event"/ "Rule Britannia
> (Columbia DB 4418)
> 1960 (Nov) last 78 rpm in the UK on major record labels: Rikki Henderson:
> "Save The Last Dance For Me"/ "It's Now Or Never" (Embassy WB 419)
> 1961 The Film-Karusell Co in Sweden issues a few 21 cm children's
> records on
> coloured vinyl
> 1961 (Feb) Merbach Record Service in Houston, Texas, still issues
> children's
> records on 78 rpm (Andrew Brown 78-L Jan 5 2003)
> 1962 last Japanese 78 rpm (78-L)
> 1963 last known Turkish 78 rpm (Benno Haeupl 78-L Aug 30 2005)
> 1964 last 78 rpm in "Little Gem"-series from Disneyland (could be 1965,
> according to Robert Angus 78-L Jan 14 2002)
> 1964 last known Argentine, Uruguayan 78 rpm (Benno Haeupl 78-L Aug 30 2005)
> 1966 The China Record Company still manufactures shellac 78's (Mark Hendrix
> 78-L Jan 6 2003) (Benno Haeupl later added 1972 as latest date for
> Chinese 78's - see 78-L Aug 30 2005)
> 1966 last known Philippines' 78 rpm (Benno Haeupl 78-L Aug 30 2005)
> 1968 last South African 78 rpm (Kieffer 78-L Apr 8 2000); Lukenite, however
> has 1974 (78-L Jan 25 2000)
> 1968 last library music 78 issued in the UK (Dave Lennick 78-L Jan 5 2003)
> 1971 last Russian Melodija 78 (probably reported by Mike Biel)
> 1974 last Indian 78 (http://www.bajakhana.com.au/Sound-rec-Ind-3D.htm)
> 1978 last 6'' vinyl 78 for children in "My Record"-series (distributed by
> Louis Marks in Swansea, UK)
> 1980 vinyl 78's still issued in Kenya (Lukenite 78-L Apr 8 2000)
> 1981 The last known shellac-like pressing (at the Orlake pressing plant
> in Dagenham, UK) was made for Paul McCartney's private pressings of the
> 1958 demo reissue of "That'll Be The Day"/ "In Spite Of All The Danger".
> (See article in Record Collector  - the UK Magazine), December 1998 pp
> 30-31)
>
> Corrections and additions most welcome.
> Kristjan
>
>
> On 2020-03-14 14:52, DKing wrote:
>> What year is the end of 78 rpm recordings? I know enough to know the
>> answer is not a simple one. - Dave King
>>