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Old 10th Nov 2018, 12:59 am   #1
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Exclamation How wrong can you be (45rpm records)?

Thought this may give one or two a giggle - it appears some thought 45rpm records weren't going to make it to Australia (check the name the page is conducted by).

Center column, paragraph that starts - "H.F. North Fitzroy writes:-"

From Australasian Radio World June 1950
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Old 10th Nov 2018, 2:21 am   #2
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It seems Mr Hull's days as editor were numbered, as was the magazine.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hers...mpany_id=18411
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Plenty of other people who should have known better - the board of EMI for instance, around the same time - a year later they had a new board and an emergency project to produce LPs.
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Default Re: How wrong can you be (45rpm records)?

The advice given to the guy with the hum problem on the same page wasn't much better.

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I'll take the Model T, though!
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Default Re: How wrong can you be (45rpm records)?

Should have mentioned the full pdf (if anybody's interested) along with many more of the same mag is on the American Radio History site.

Same issue also has some info on vibrator power supplies in another article.
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How very interesting to read the History of such developments and how today we can smile about it.
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Default Re: How wrong can you be (45rpm records)?

Microgroove records took a long time to become dominant. Britain was still pressing 78s in 1960. I think the last ones made were for the Woolworths 'Embassy' pop covers label.
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I've heard of the EMI labels still issuing 78's in 1960, and continued to press them for export for a time longer. I think RCA (and maybe the other labels pressed by Decca) were being released this late, though probably only available in shops by special order.

After EMI discontinued pressing 78's in the UK the machinery was shipped out to India, where demand for 78's were still high.
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Default Re: How wrong can you be (45rpm records)?

I'm not sure about RCA, but Decca in the U.K. were still pressing 78s until 1960 - The Everly Brothers 'Cathy's Clown' (Warner Bros. WB1) was one such issue - I remember seeing this disc in 78 form - there may have been others!
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Default Re: How wrong can you be (45rpm records)?

In the early 1960s there was a BBC Public Information Film being shown. I can't remember exactly what it was about, but probably about reducing waste of some sort.

It started with the narrator saying something like "We all like having new things" and to make the point we see a man taking a brand new 78 out of its sleeve and placing it on a turntable.

Even given that it might have been made some years earlier, it struck me as being highly anachronistic.
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