78 RPM - The Platters - My Prayer / Heaven On Earth - Mercury - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	The Platters
Label:	Mercury
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	MT.120
Date:	Oct 1956
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	57 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$19
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Images

Number: 1810755

THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: Redpunk
Description: Mercury MT.120 A side label - shellac (Oct. 1956 - 30 May 1957 = end of tax code RT)

Number: 1810756

Uploaded By: Redpunk
Description: Mercury MT.120 B side label - shellac (Oct. 1956 - 30 May 1957 = end of tax code RT)

Number: 412700

Uploaded By: carryonsidney
Description: Mercury MT.120 A side label - vinyl variant

Number: 412701

Uploaded By: carryonsidney
Description: Mercury MT.120 B side label - vinyl variant

Comments and Reviews


dunk78 13th May 2023



xiphophilos 3rd Aug 2022		Thanks, Keith. I notice that MT.105 and MT107 (which for some reason has no full stop in the cat. nr.) have the same two label pressing rings as the vinyl version here, so presumably they are also both vinyl. I wonder if both of the copies we currently have on the site are represses. MT.122 (Sept. 1956), MT.125 and MT.142 (1957) also have these two pressing rings, and MT.130 (Jan. 1957) is marked as vinyl in the notes. By late 1956 or early 1957, the vinyl versions seem to have become standard, and all vinyl versions of earlier releases are represses.



KeithS SUBS 2nd Aug 2022		Mercury in the US began with Merco Plastic in early 1949 and marking the labels "Non Breakable" Pye in the UK who produced Mercury there started by offering two variants of the same record but that must have been well into the 1950's. I remember The Platters "Only You" and I notice that MT 107 from 1956 here on the site is marked as "Flexible"



xiphophilos 2nd Aug 2022		I assume the vinyl variant with the two pressing rings is later than the shellac variant. Does anyone know when Mercury switched to vinyl?



Redpunk 6th Dec 2018		Added Shellac label scans.



Alan Warby 1st Jul 2013		Reached Number 4 in the NME charts, 2 Nov 1956. It was also awarded a Gold Disc.



carryonsidney 15th Feb 2013		this was available as a Shellac & Vinyl type pressings.