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Member	Item		Review/Comment
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Jimmy Jones - Handy Man / The Search Is Over (1960)	1960 South African 78rpm disc
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Johnnie Ray - Wagon Wheels / When It's Springtime In The Rockies (1960)	South African pressing 1960.
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Ronnie Hilton - Wonderful! Wonderful! / The Miracle Of Love (1957)	Side A also to be found on a UK EP from 1957 along with Petula Clark and others. This is a South African pressing
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Bill Haley And His Comets - Tamiami / Candy Kisses (1960)	a 1960 Bill Haley 78 from South Africa. No other 78s of this one on 45worlds so far
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Dean Jones - Silhouettes / There Goes My Heart (1957)	the only 78rpm pressing of this one on 45worlds thus far
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Clint Miller - Polka Dotted Poliwampus / Teenage Dance (1958)	not sure what a Poliwampus is but this is a South African pressing
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee / You Need Love (1959)	Lloyd Price in South African 78rpm
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Cliff Richard And The Shadows - Livin' Lovin' Doll / Steady With You (1959)	an early Cliff 78 from South Africa
kimbozw 28th Feb 2014		78 RPM Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - A Big Hunk O' Love / My Wish Came True (1959)	another South African 78. Have since swapped this one
kimbozw 29th Jan 2014		78 RPM Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki (Ue O Muite Aruko) / Anoko-No Namae-Wa Nantenkana (1963)	This was issued as a 45rpm disc in South Africa and I assume that as a result there would have been no 78rpm version. I have yet to come across a disc issued on both 78rpm and 45rpm in Southern Africa thus far ...
kimbozw 22nd Jan 2014		78 RPM Art Hickman's Orchestra - Hold Me / Dance It Again With Me (1920)	interesting. Chart positions in the POP MEMORIES book before 1940 must be taken with a pinch of salt it seems. Perhaps Tim Brooks could come up with his own publication with a different name which is more accurate.
kimbozw 10th Jan 2014		78 RPM Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - Wild In The Country / I Feel So Bad (1961)	This was in the Top 10 in South Africa (the list published at the time in the USA's Billboard magazine) in October 1961. I assume that the general production of 78rpm singles was ceased not long after this release (although some 78s in the black music market were issued until as late as 1968)
kimbozw 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Al Jolson - You Made Me Love You / Pullman Porters Parade (1913)	this was the top selling disc in America from 04 October 1913 for 7 weeks according to the book POP MEMORIES 1890-1954. America's #1 this week 100 years ago! It was the 5th of 91 records charted by Al from 1912 to 1948 in the USA
kimbozw 18th Sep 2013		78 RPM Del Shannon - Runaway / Jody (1961)	@Jock_Girl - thank you / merci.
kimbozw 18th Sep 2013		78 RPM Doris Day And Johnnie Ray - Ma Says, Pa Says / A Full Time Job (1953)	Side A was a small hit in the USA, a composition originating from South Africa
kimbozw 18th Sep 2013		78 RPM Del Shannon - Runaway / Jody (1961)	My scanner doesn't scan so well with LPs and 78s as the vinyl is not as close to the glass. RUNAWAY was shown in the Top 3 in South Africa in July 1961 in the chart then published in BILLBOARD Magazine. I am not sure if it was also available as a 7" single 45rpm at that time. Was RUNAWAY released elsewhere in 1961 as a 78rpm disc, I wonder? Perhaps Bigtom can enlighten us?
kimbozw 10th Sep 2013		78 RPM African Dance Band Of The Cold Storage Commission Of Southern Rhodesia - Karekwangu / Skokiaan	this is seemingly from 1952. Strange that the tune which became an international hit is on the B side here. And the spelling error in the composer's name (correct spelling MUSARURWA) was introduced on the South African pressing.
kimbozw 11th Apr 2013		78 RPM Cliff Richard And The Drifters - Mean Streak / Never Mind (1959)	added cleaner labels with respect to RAKAttack
kimbozw 8th Apr 2013		78 RPM The Johnston Brothers - Skokiaan / No Heart At All (1954)	the mis-spelling of the surname of the composer (correct spelling Musarurwa) always irks me. One of many cover versions
kimbozw 22nd Mar 2013		78 RPM Cliff Richard - Outsider / Blue Moon (1962)	nice one. Since the inception of 45worlds the 78rpm singles have become the most popular here, accounting for 36,36% of uploaded items to date, as against 34,64% for CD singles, 26.04% for 12" singles and a mere 2,95% for cassette singles. May the fun continue ...
kimbozw 14th Mar 2013		78 RPM Johnny Preston - Running Bear / My Heart Knows (1959)	another 78 added from South Africa
kimbozw 13th Mar 2013		78 RPM Elvis Presley - Wooden Heart / G. I. Blues (1961)	another 78 from South Africa by "The King". See they printed the wrong catalogue number on side A and overprinted it to correct the error. My original wonky scan is shown on the comments page but in the bowels of the entry the two images have been cropped -- more power to the mods! :)
kimbozw 8th Feb 2013		78 RPM Ralph Marterie - Skokiaan / Crazy 'Bout Lollipop (1954)	actually the correct spelling of August's surname is MUSARURWA which may have been shortened to MSARURWA which is a fairly common shona language surname in Zimbabwe where the composer hailed from (known as Rhodesia back in the day). No G in the surname. Must have been a typo way back when.
kimbozw 31st Jan 2013		78 RPM Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes / Tutti Frutti (1956)	@zabadak - never the twain shall meet? I had a pile of albums + 78s leaning against a cupboard door about a year ago and the pile was knocked over fairly gently and one Elvis 78 from S Africa broke into pieces as a result ...
kimbozw 22nd Jan 2013		78 RPM Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) / Here Comes That Song Again (1960)	@zabadak - enjoy! I hope to add some more prontissimo :)
kimbozw 21st Jan 2013		78 RPM Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) / Here Comes That Song Again (1960)	I have no southern african chart lists from as early as 1960 but suspect this was a popular one at the time
kimbozw 16th Jan 2013		78 RPM Märta Ahlberg - Någonstans I Sverige / En Liten Stjärna Föll (1940)	thanks. There's a version of it on video by Anni-Frid Lyngstad. I think it was included on a DVD compilation of hers a few years ago
kimbozw 16th Jan 2013		78 RPM Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band - Bulawayo Rumba / Hondo Chiwutsi (1954)	no COMPOSER details ...
kimbozw 16th Jan 2013		78 RPM The Canadians - Zambesi / Only You (And You Alone) (1956)	Third composer of Side A is De Waal. One of many cover versions of the South African composition ZAMBESI. I wonder if the composer was inspired to come up with it after the success of SKOKIAAN from up north in Rhodesia
kimbozw 16th Jan 2013		78 RPM Elvis Presley - One Night / I Got Stung (1959)	i've come across a number of Elvis 78s made in South Africa in recent years here in ZW. I suspect they didn't manufacture them in ZW at the time but merely imported from SA. At least 3 of them broke in transit to Europe where I had sent them! :(

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