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2nd Mar 2013, 4:43 AM
	mickey rat Member since Jan 2012 3050 Points	British Top Rank actually pressed a lot (if not all?) their earlier titles on 78 using LP type vinyl. Sometime in 1961 or maybe early 1962 Top Rank deletions started turning up in disposal stores in large numbers. I bought as many cheap 45s as I could (not many because I was still at school and had no money) but I can remember quite vividly big stacks of flexible Top Rank 78s in a store in Brixton's Coldharbour Lane and then a few weeks later at another place in Plumstead High Street. I do remember numerous titles on 78 including Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" plus more obscure stuff like the Nobelmen and Little Bill & The Bluenotes. I can only remember blue labels but there may have been later red labels too. Anyway the reason I've remembered this is because they were all pressed on flexible vinyl which seemed pretty weird at the time.

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