1964 Beatles Indian 78 I Saw Her Standing There /Hold Me Tight superb condition
£
1,200
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1,590
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******************************************** THE BEATLES on 78 r.p.m. I collected 78s for over half a century and never once saw a Beatles 78, though I read that they were offered when advertised in 1977 at £100 each! This one, clearly, has been in this country for some decades - the label has
not been washed away in the monsoons. (Sorry, not posting abroad. Airplanes are not good anymore.) [Why does stupid Ebay always insist on demanding a condition grade for "Inlay"? What the hell is an inlay? It's a phonograph record - not a ridiculous Compact Disc. 60 years ago those were not even imagined! I had to choose "Fair" because I couldn't avoid stating something - not an option to just skip it. Idiots.] SPECIAL OFFER! BUY THIS RECORD AND GET MY BOOK AT A DISCOUNT PRICE! (Try me with an offer.) See below for details. Condition: Excellent. No noteworthy surface scuffs, no deep scratches. Small edge chip nowhere near playing surface. Definitely not cracked. Writing etched on one label. Fine grooves on A-side - quite a long track for a 78. Plays extremely well with no noteworthy faults. ORIGINAL 1964 INDIAN PARLOPHONE SLEEVE INCLUDED IN THIS SALE.
(The sleeve pictured is a mid-1950s English one, not correct for this record.) My pics have been culled from various websites but this is evidently the same disc. Strange lighting effect in photos makes the disc looked warped but it is not. Bid with confidence - Disc will be well packaged for full protection in transit. (Postage is combined on multiple purchases - please await correct invoice!) ******************************************* ALSO STILL AVAILABLE - MY NEW BOOK PUBLISHED INDEPENDENTLY (in December 2021). "VINYL DAVE'S BOOK OF FAVOURITE LABELS" A beautifully printed full-colour stamp catalogue gave me the idea about 10 years ago. I thought, wouldn't it be good if.... But, as I soon realised, British record labels are so BORING!! Decca, Columbia, Brunswick, Polydor, they kept the same label design for decades! The idea kept coming back to me. And gradually this book evolved - (101 reasons / excuses for collecting records.) Numbered limited edition. (See my other listings for a detailed preview.) 272 pages packed with very nearly a thousand labels throughout the 20th Century, A & Ms to Zonophones, dating from a 7-inch Berliner disc of 1899 to the Last 78s, and from the First British 45s to a black label juke box single of the 1990s. Back in the 1960s Auntie Beeb was forced to accept the sheer popularity of the vinyl 45 and suddenly had to employ - the horror ! - disc jockeys ... You may remember the "oldies" that we all loved or you may be just discovering an unforgettable magical Golden Age - which answers, I hope, the question : "Why would anyone want to publish a book of record labels?" Does it really matter if 45s get into the wrong sleeves? Or if wrong dates are printed on the labels? Do computers make good radio programmers? How many foreign languages hit the U.K. charts? What became of the original White Christmas? And what did happen to the Beatles' first Parlophone single? (Their second made Number One in New Musical Express - therefore also Radio Luxembourg (2 wks.) ; Melody Maker - so also Daily Mirror and others (2 wks.), B.B.C.'s Pick Of The Pops (3 wks.), also Disc (2 wks.), Pop Weekly (2 wks.) as well as E.M.I.'s own chart and of course Mersey Beat. But not Record Retailer which is generally agreed to be the least reliable for the 1960s (used by Record Mirror and Guinness). Awarded a Silver Disc for 250,000 sales in April 1963. The Rolling Stones also had a Number One in the B.B.C. chart - it was played as such on Top Of The Pops in 1966 but the Guinness books disagree. Sad day.) The book was finished long before I even saw an Edison Long Player. If it ever goes for reprint I would have to include one! Last few copies remaining of the 1st 100 - NUMBERED LTD. EDITION, LARGE FORMAT (approx. A4) and more than 1 kg. Postage £3.00 ***************************************
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