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4th Jul 2020, 5:47 PM
	mister_tmg Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1117 Points	Shellac wrote: Hi guy's without being able to see (or enlarge) the tiny print, can anyone actually POST the LAST known regular UK 78 issues? I believe I have two: Russ Conway: Royal Event (Columbia) 1960 Adam Faith: Poor Me (Parlophone) 1960 This webpage has: Steve Stannard on Embassy: Pepe (1961) Could anyone expand please? It would be good in list format, though you can zoom in on Table 1 and the text isn't that small. Columbia does seem to have been missed out though. The Parlophone one is in the list. Embassy isn't in the table either. Tony P did say 'major labels', but Embassy probably sold more records than some other labels in the list. Steve Stannard's Embassy 78 (Perfidia / Pepe) seems to have been the last regular UK issue in January 1961 - that is a commercially released 78, not library music or acetates etc. There have been 78s issued in recent decades, but we are thinking of the last issues from the original "78rpm era". In any case, I imagine the more recent 78 issues are pressed on vinyl, not shellac. In the heyday of 78s, I think it was only Pye-pressed 78s that were issued on vinyl (including Mercury while they had the license). I'm not aware of other labels pressing vinyl 78s, but maybe they did. I would assume the late Embassy 78s were on shellac. I note that the lists also mention Oriole issuing two Phil Tate 78s in 1961, CB 1601 and CB 1602. Those were shown in the Gramophone Catalogue and Record Retailer but not in the New Records publication. The 45s were issued in February 1961, and the March 1961 edition of the New Records only lists them as 45s. So perhaps they were cancelled on 78? They haven't sold on eBay in the last few years, judging by the listings archived on Popsike and Roots Vinyl Guide. I suspect they don't exist on 78, and never did. Edited by mister_tmg on 4th Jul 2020, 6:16 PM