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Topic: This 78 RPM Treasure

  15th Aug 2023, 1:05 PM
Mike Wilson1

Musicologist
Member since Dec 2019
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mister_tmg wrote:
scrough wrote:
Mike Wilson1 wrote:
I read an informative report that during 1941-1943 310 record outlets throughout Britain would only allow you to buy a 78 Shellac record if you also brought one in to be recycled
See this Columbia And Parlophone Record Guide for September 1942.

Sad, as one wonders how many rarer records ended up junked this way. Surely people would have been giving up records they were less keen on?

Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again is said to have been a bestseller, yet is now so scarce that copies change hands for high prices. The White Cliffs of Dover was also a bestseller, yet sells for a lot.

I guess at some point I would want to have recordings of all the UK's sheet music chart hits, which tends to mean a choice of several recordings. Perhaps it may be desirable to find the most popular version of that song, if it can be ascertained. Bearing in mind the number of errors in the 'missing charts' book, I'm wary of using retrospective charts!

You are exactly right.....I spent months going through "The Missing Charts" book accumilating a very long list of errors that I sent to the publishers....I now have an adequate working list of records that were actually available with correct titles/artists/catalogue numbers that I am going through.....It's not perfect but workable....Alarm bells ring when there is never a photograph of an actual record despite peoples assurances


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