Welcome to the new 78rpm Collector’s Community website…
The 78rpm Collectors’ Community is a social network for collectors of 78rpms recordings, phonographs, memorabilia, recording machines and the history of the 78 rpm recording era.
We are a social group of collectors of 78rpm records – with a member base of over 6800 worldwide. Started in 2009 as a place for collectors to discuss and enjoy the hobby of collecting old-style records. It has steadily grown to become a premier research hub, archive and resource library for users to research record labels and recording artists with extensive user-created discographies on a range of record labels, artists and record genres available. Its interface is similar to FaceBook. It is free to join.
If you’re a member of the original BETA site, you can log into our new site (without creating a new account) by following these instructions…
- Log into the original BETA site (and)
- then return to our new site here… That’s it, and you can easily move from our new site to the original site seamlessly..!
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78rpmFeatured Gallery – Fonotipia Posters
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78rpmWhy Nerdy White Guys Who Love the Blues Are Obsessed With a Wisconsin Chair Factory
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78rpmThe 78rpm Project Movie
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78rpmA Whisper That Roars
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78rpmReginald Foresythe – Discography
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78rpmFeatured Gallery – The Golden Age of Steinweiss and the 78rpm ‘Album Cover’
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78rpmA Strange British Pathé
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78rpmCollecting 78rpms – A Personal Journey
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78rpmLouis Levy – Discography
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78rpmFeatured Gallery – Vogue Picture Records
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The following index lists the most commonly accessible and highly regarded 78rpm resources found on the 78rpm Collectors’ Community website. Many of the resources come from highly regarded source material which is now out of [...] -
A growing list of occasional Weekend Projects, on a variety of topics, to help the novice collector of 78rpms How to Package 78rpms This fool-proof, step-by-step guide to packaging 78rpms, will ensure a safe [...]
In the Spotlight
Phyllis Robins – Sheffield’s Blond Bombshell
Written by Terry Brown Petite Phyllis Robins, at just five foot tall, delighted radio audiences and the record buying public alike, for more than twenty years with a vocal style that ranged from torchy smooth [...]
In the Spotlight
Why Nerdy White Guys Who Love the Blues Are Obsessed With a Wisconsin Chair Factory
Written by Lisa Hix [Article used with permission] This article originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of our magazine – The Discographer Magazine (pp.86-107) In the 2001 movie “Ghost World,” 18-year-old Enid picks up [...]
Bart:
The software looks nice. I currently have my records catalogued in Windows Works Database 8.0. Pretty ancient, I know. But…
Hector:
This is all well and good, in theory. In practice it pays to have a range of styli sizes…
Jerome Moncada:
To replace vocalion78, can I suggest http://www.instagram.com/historyofcountrymusic/ ?
RedFlag:
Great stuff, thanks!
JohnMeakin:
“Most modern playback equipment nowadays accentuates the scratch found on 78s” (part 1 above). This may be…
ian316:
I love the records you feature on YouTube. They seem to be the less well-known sides that rarely (if ever)…
