Re: [ARSCLIST] vinyl 78's

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Anyone know if there was an official cut-off date among the major pressing
plants in the USA? As I
> said, I know there were still kiddie record 78's being cut and pressed in the
mid-60's.
>
Apparently not. The major labels all abandoned 78rpm in mid-1958
(Capitol may have continued for a month or three...?!), but labels
which felt they had rural buyers (i.e. race records...most notably
Chess) pressed 78's into 1960.

"Kiddie records" were different; their manufacturers seemed to
assume their customers still used "kiddie" phonographs, which
were usually 78rpm...and that the parents wouldn't let the
chilluns use the "big people's player," which was usually a
stereo system...?!

Steven C. Barr