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6th May 2024, 3:31 PM
	mister_tmg Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1118 Points	You paint an interesting picture of Britain at the time of those records, Pridesale. Pridesale wrote: You might say, these appeared in books of "chart hits" , I suspect a) it was a low bar, and b) a one week spluge at the record retailers does not a sustained retention of disc make Yes, it would be useful to see the chart data for the records which Mike is looking for. Did they just spend a week in the lower rungs of the listings? In the UK, I believe that after a boom in record sales in the late 1920s, they did not recover again until the 1950s - probably in the rock era. Sheet music outsold records until the mid-50s, as far as I know. In George Martin’s memoirs, he discusses his time at Parlophone in the early 50s and says you only needed to press a few hundred copies of a record. I have copies of all the Bob and Alf Pearson 78s on that label from 1949 to 1953 except Big Bits of Big Hits (the first in the series), which never turns up, although Redpunk here has it. I wonder what the sales figures were like for records in Britain during this era.

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