Description

• This includes a history of both the HMV and RCA releases, and also provides a context for the 1950s’ pop scene
• Is extensively illustrated in full colour throughout, including a variety of images of Elvis himself
• Details the history of 78rpm releases in the UK generally, their popularity and importance, as well as chronicling their subsequent (and rapid) fall from favour
• Features a wealth of background information, revealing exciting new details and industry information regarding this once popular – but now redundant – medium
• Offers technical, but clear, details regarding manufacturing as well as looking at things such as tax and price codes, and the role of sheet music
• Includes a chronological list of all the 78rpms included and an index of where each song can be found
• Discusses each 78rpm release individually, offering a detailed and forensic commentary on every release, while the extensive text is amply illustrated with scans of every known label and sleeve variation, relevant photographs, and scans of contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles and adverts
• Incorporates historically significant events of the period throughout the narrative and cross-references with US releases where appropriate
• Includes a detailed Song Index, showing recording dates, which 78 each song has been featured on subsequently