CLIFF RICHARDS 78 RPM MADE IN INDIA RECORD VINYL HEAR

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RARE COLLECTION OF CLIFF RICHARDS 78 RPM RECORD

SET OF THREE 78 RPM RECORDS

PRESSED IN INDIA

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING @ $ 40 ONLY

PAYPAL ACCEPTED

VERY SAFE PACKING IN WOODEN BOX

  CAT NO SIDE 1 SIDE 2         1 DB 4761 THE YOUNG ONES WE SAY YEAH 2 POPC 2080 SPANISH HARLEM EVERGREEN TREE 3 POPC 2077 BLUE MOON OUTSIDER

Record Condition:  SLIGHT SCRATCHES/SCRUFFS ON THE SURFACE WHICH DO NOT AFFECT SOUND QUALITY
Record Sleeve - Two records have original Columbia Sleeve & one has Generic Sleeve

History of The Indian 78s – Why are they valuable ???

India was one of three countries known to have been pressing 78's  -- the Philippines and Argentina being the others.

All of the 78's are scarce to rare, with the later singles being hardest to find.

According to a recent book on collecting original UK pressings, the Indian pressings not only exist, but supposedly there were 30 or so different titles issued!

 The story goes (the author appears very knowledgable on all aspects of the UK pressings) that when Parlophone decided in March of 1963 that they would stop producing 78's, they dismantled the machines and sent them to India, of all places. The demand for 78's still existed there since the records could be played on phonographs that did not require electricity and most Indians didn't have electricity. 

By the mid 1960s the 78rpm record had become a scratchy memory in the world of recorded music. The tenacity of this format in some markets however resulted in some of the most unusual and unexpected releases ever.

Great Britain's EMI records continued to issue 78s in India until at least 1968, legend has it due to the preponderance of wind-up phonographs there. 

These releases carried both the standard (UK) 'R' numbering series as well as DPE prefix releases with different couplings than that of the standard Parlophone UK issues.

Each record has an individual value in the range of least US$1000 to US$2000.

Similar to the situation with vinyl 45s in the USA today, EMI also released 78s in Argentina and the Philippines for radio stations and juke boxes, many with unique combinations of songs.

Special Instructions on the playing of this record:

If you've just spent hundreds of dollars on such a rare piece, the last thing you should ever do is play it with a stylus, er, needle, that looks like a rusty roofing nail.

The big rule here is NEVER, and I mean NEVER play your 78s with the same stylus that you play modern LPs and singles with. Likewise NEVER, and I mean NEVER play your LPs and singles with the same stylus that you play 78s with. They both need two very different type of styli. The reason is that modern LPs and 45s, apart from being made of a very different type of material, are mastered using a technique called microgroove. With microgroove, the grooves are actually smaller than that on a 78. While LPS require a styles of .6 or .7 thousands (.0006 or .0007) of an inch, 78s require a stylus sized at 2.8 to 3 (.0028 to .0030) thousandths of an inch, in other words, about 4 or 5 times BIGGER!. Therefore, playing a 78 with a stylus designed for LPs will result in poor sound reproduction. You'll lose that wonderful feel that is the sound of a well maintained rapidly rotating record -- plus you'll wear that stylus down to a nub in no time! If you play your LPs and 45s with the stylus designed for 78s, you will actually wear the down the walls of the grooves and destroy the disk because that stylus is actually much much wider than the groove it playing!

SPECIAL NOTE FROM ME 

I hope you are not too exhausted at the end !!!

The only purpose for this detailed listing & information is to apprise you of the true worth of this vinyl.

  I believe you should make an informed decision to bid on this auction.

As a collector in India, I would like to say that one rarely come across such a marvellous piece.

Especially so as Indian records were never seriously collected or preserved, which adds a great deal of value the last few ones 'surviving'

Whatever price this auction might fetch, it will still be very low compared to its value a few years later.

Please be free to ask us any questions you might have.

THANKS A LOT FOR VISITING US !!!

HAPPY BIDDING AND MAY THE BEST  AFICIONADO FAN WIN !!

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