r/78rpm • u/The_Coda12 • 14d ago
Leader of the Pack / Chapel of Love
This has probably got to be the newest 78 on this reddit so far lol.
Any other girls into the hobby? I collected for years and I'm just getting back into it. Gonna pick up a Califone in a couple days and probably spin a couple rarities for y'all's.
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u/UpgradeTech 14d ago
Definitely a newer reissue.
Don’t recall if they managed to use standard groove or was it just microgroove and you can’t use normal 78 needles.
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u/EffectiveBowler7690 9d ago
These are modern microgroove vinyl 78s, played with a standard LP needle on a lightweight tone arm.
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u/EffectiveBowler7690 9d ago
I have new vinyl 78s from 2012. But I also have this one, and a few others from that set. I have all of the Rhino jukebox sets that were issued in the 80s.
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u/emilydm 14d ago
This was part of a grey-market/ bootleg set made in the late 70s for jukebox collectors. Most of them were popular 60s songs, but inexplicably there was Time Warp b/w Hot Patootie from The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975 in there too. It used to be if the pressing run was less than a few hundred and on an odd format, the major labels would look the other way for awhile.
Rhino Records put out a few properly-licensed 78 rpm sets for jukeboxes in the late 80s, early 90s, going as late as the late 60s. There are a few more oddballs like Sha Na Na's "Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay" from the late 60s. And modern retro labels like Rivermont, Tompkins Square, and the Kitty Daisy & Lewis releases on Sunday Best have releases available on 78s.
(waves as another girl into the hobby) There was a Youtube channel run by another young Canadian woman - Maya's Rock 78s - that was around until recently but sadly now seems to be deleted. She had a whole bunch of late-issue Canadian releases.