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4th Jul 2020, 8:17 PM
	mister_tmg Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1118 Points	The following OCC no1s from 1960 were almost certainly not issued on 78 in the UK, with no source saying they were: Cliff Richard And The Shadows - Please Don't Tease (Columbia) Issued by Columbia with the same catalogue number in India, and a different one in South Africa. Johnny Kidd And The Pirates - Shakin' All Over (HMV) Issued on 78 by HMV in South Africa with a different catalogue number. It was also issued on 78 by Odeon in Brazil. The Shadows - Apache (Columbia) Issued on 78 in the Philippines with the same catalogue number, but by Parlophone. It was issued on Columbia in Turkey and South Africa with different catalogue numbers. Ricky Valance - Tell Laura I Love Her (Columbia) Issued on 78 with a variation of the same catalogue number in the Philippines, on Parlophone. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - It's Now Or Never (O Sole Mio) (RCA) Issued on 78 in South Africa with a different catalogue number and coupling. Cliff Richard And The Shadows - I Love You (Columbia) Issued by Columbia with the same catalogue number in India, and a different one in South Africa. There was only non-OCC no1 in 1960 that was not issued on 78, and again, no source says otherwise: Connie Francis - Mama / Robot Man (MGM) Both titles on this double A-side were issued on 78 by MGM in South Africa, but with different couplings, and different catalogue numbers. Mama was issued on 78 in Brazil and the Philippines. So all the 'official' UK no1s of 1960 were issued somewhere on 78 somewhere in the world, most with the same coupling. This means that you can find 78rpm pressings of all the UK no1s of 1960, if you include issues from overseas. 78s for Elvis Presley's It's Now Or Never and the Connie Francis single do not correspond with the UK issues in terms of disc couplings, but the songs are on 78rpm. Any comments or information welcomed. Edited by mister_tmg on 5th Jul 2020, 1:29 AM