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Staying on target with our mission to keep you informed and up to date with artifacts and treasures of rock; we ran across an amazing article about The Beatles on 78 RPM! Unbelievable and astonishing - read further and check out the photos.

Colombia  

South America remains as big a hotbed of late 78s as anywhere else in the world, with almost every nation on the continent issuing 78s well into the mid 60s. Brazil saw releases by Helen Shapiro, Uruguay had releases by Del Shannon, and of course we have the Beatles' unique 78 rpm promo single from Argentina detailed elsewhere on this site. In 2008, a 78 from Colombia came onto the market in the form of the unique coupling of I Saw Her Standing There with Twist and Shout. It was released on Odeon NCO-300855, possibly in early 1964.

In 2008, a copy was offered on eBay with an opening bid of US$2,999.99 and a Buy It Now Price of US $4,700

NEWS - March 2009  

A Hard Day's Night has been confirmed on 78 in Colombia as NCO-300938. It appears to be a B-side! See below. The A side is known to have been I Should Have Known Better. Its master number is OD.45036. Unfortunately we have been unable to source an image of it.

This record sold for over US$1,200.

The Beatles 78 Vinyl - Hard Days Night 

 

The First Beatles 78  

Recorded in 1958 in Liverpool 7, and featuring the talents of up and comers 'The Quarry Men' you can hear these classic recordings on the Beatles' Anthology One. The Quarry Men consisted of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Colin Hanton, and John Duff Lowe at the time of this recording. These photos taken by John Lowe in 1981

 

First Beatles 78 Vinyl

 

 

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