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  28th Feb 2013, 8:38 PM#1  REPORT  
vinylpassion

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Not sure if this has been mentioned before but apart from the Pye and Mercury labels does anyone know of any other unbreakable (vinyl rather than shellac) 78s?


  28th Feb 2013, 10:58 PM#2  REPORT  
zabadak

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These? :wink:


  28th Feb 2013, 11:44 PM#3  REPORT  
scrough ●

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Top Rank - I've got a vinyl 78 by Craig Douglas - Only 16. Anybody else remember that?


  1st Mar 2013, 12:13 AM#4  REPORT  
Jock_Girl

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scrough wrote:
Top Rank - I've got a vinyl 78 by Craig Douglas - Only 16. Anybody else remember that?

Yep -- I have that one also

http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/jar159


  1st Mar 2013, 9:34 AM#5  REPORT  
vinylpassion

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I have only ever seen only 16 on a 45,wonder if top rank did any other vinyl discs on 10"


  1st Mar 2013, 10:48 AM#6  REPORT  
KeithS SUBS ●

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Rank never made the discs...they pressed their stuff with Philips and Pye and whoever.
It was probably a Pye pressed disc


  1st Mar 2013, 10:52 AM#7  REPORT  
Tony P

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I have a vinyl copy of this philips record.
http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/pb707


  2nd Mar 2013, 4:43 AM#8  REPORT  
mickey rat

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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.


  2nd Mar 2013, 9:17 AM#9  REPORT  
KeithS SUBS ●

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What I was trying to say Mickey was that Top Rank never had pressing facilities of their own and always contracted out to one or other of the big companies.
Top Rank 78's did appear in vinyl but it would be thanks to Pye of Philips or whoever did the pressing job


  2nd Mar 2013, 10:06 AM#10  REPORT  
mickey rat

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Sorry PC - I did understand your post and I probably should have used the word "released" instead of "pressed". Anyway, in retrospect it seems Top Rank wasn't very well organised and pretty cavalier with their releases - apparently having large numbers of each title pressed instead of testing the waters with a few hundred copies. But then perhaps Pye dictated the minimum number of copies in a pressing run and that's why so many Top Rank 45s (and 78s) ended up as cheap deleted stock and the company went broke.


  2nd Mar 2013, 10:16 AM#11  REPORT  
vinylpassion

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Mickey your story about all those 78s, i guess as collectors we all have a story of a similar nature,what would we give to go back and have a good rumage knowing what we know now eh


  6th Mar 2013, 4:59 AM#12  REPORT  
bobzyeruncle

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V-Discs pressed for the American armed forces during WW II were pressed on very (!) heavy vinyl, not dissimilar to radio transcriptions of the time.
Capitol and M-G-M were also using 'Vinylite' for children's records and standard issues not long after.


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