78 RPM - The Platters - The Great Pretender / Only You (And You Alone) - Mercury - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	The Platters
Label:	Mercury
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	MT.117 / 78-1017
Date:	Aug 1956
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	71 Own, 2 Want
Price Guide:	$13
» Search eBay #AD » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

PRICE GUIDE

$13

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	The Platters	The Great Pretender	Buck Ram	10.0 Rate
B	The Platters	Only You (And You Alone)	Buck Ram, Ande Rande	10.0 Rate

Notes

Double A side
Both tracks featured in the Columbia Picture "Rock Around The Clock"

Images

Comments and Reviews


tomaszposzwinski 5th Jan 2024



dunk78 14th Apr 2023



Redpunk 14th Dec 2021		Added label scans with changed centres.



MrPasta SUBS 3rd Jan 2021



MrPasta SUBS 3rd Jan 2021



seanbss 27th Dec 2019		As the disc labels state, both sides were featured in the movie “Rock Around The Clock”. So maybe that has something to do with what was effectively a double A-side release...



moondog 22nd Mar 2018		The vinyl 78s were designed for standard 78 playing so no change of stylus was needed. You had the best of both worlds - loud 78 format and unlike the shellac, a non-scratchy surface. Your 45/33 stylus would be probably be wrecked by using in a 78 groove.



sheepdip1234 SUBS 18th Sep 2017		Were the vinyl 78's played with a standard 45/33 needle (stylus) or a 78 one?



Alan Warby 29th Jun 2013		The Great Pretender reached Number 5 in the NME charts, 7 Sep 1956. Both numbers were awarded a Gold Disc.



caseellerbroek SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		And I'll learn to check my spelling one day! Anyway, its only a theory. I seem to remember "Only you" getting a lot of airplay on the Beep around 1956 along with "Heartbreak Hotel" (on programs like "Family Favorites") and then "The great pretender" coming along later. But the release dates tell a different story.



Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		I'll learn my calendar one day. It does look like Pye's licensing was behind Decca with London whom if the Platters had been associated with them would probably got both singles out within a few months or less of US issue.



caseellerbroek SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		According to the link, the EP came out 2 months later. But I think it must have been a licensing problem. "Only you" was released over a year before in the States and "The Great Pretender" over 6 months previously, so when they finally got the problem sorted out they put both songs on the same record. How's that for a theory?



Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		And Both Tunes out on 45EP earlier in the Year http://www.45cat.com/record/mep9504 Maybe it was cheaper to licence two sure-fire hits on one than to sell and produce two individual ones.



caseellerbroek SUBS 1st Feb 2013		That's right. But why were these two huge hits put out together on one record in England. Doesn't make financial sense.



Jock_Girl 30th Jan 2013		These Pye vinyl 78s are truly a sonic marvel.



TheJudge 30th Jan 2013		The Pye Group seem to have been making vinyl 78s in 1957, as my copies of The Diamonds' Little Darlin' and Lonnie Donegan's Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O* are vinyl, as is my copy of Petula Clark's Alone from the following year.*



KeithS SUBS 30th Jan 2013		Pye were producing a thin vinyl 78's....I had a Lonnie Donegan one fron January 1958...not sure when they started producing them A quick look on internet gives the impression that they started at the end of the 1950's so probably good selling back.catalogue material was also pressed up on vinyl



caseellerbroek SUBS 30th Jan 2013		I have this in rigid form and also flexible vinyl. I also have more of these non-breakable 78s. Did they come around later?



zabadak 19th Jan 2013		Great double a-side! A side: B side:

Add a Comment or Review about this 78

Linked Releases

Netherlands - Mercury - 1956

Finland - Mercury - 1956

Norway - Mercury - 1956

Sweden - Mercury - 1956