Are you sure that’s a 78 and not just a 45 punched for spindle?
If you’ll notice the website name, it’s called cool78s.com. The reference to this Chubby Checker 78 is in the 78 RPM FAQ.
I’m surprised, as Cameo-Parkway only issued 45s and albums, according to Wiki and this website. If you scroll down to #824 on their release list, there he sits. There was also a “Let’s Twist” album that was, of course, on 33-1/3. I mean, it was 1960, for cripes’ sake.
It’s likely that this 78 was produced for playback in 78 RPM jukeboxes, and/or for distribution to the countries in the FAQ article where they were still in use in the early 1960s.
On the page you linked, navigate to the main page and scroll down 3/4 of the way to see more Cameo and Parkway 78s. I might mention that I own some of both.
The first several Beatles singles were issued on 78 in India.
Yep, that’s pretty much it. Once in a great while you’d see a vendor call some number and verify the card, but not often.
Quite possible. I know that India was still producing 78s into the 70s, but US production/consumption peaked in the 50s. Still, I have to stubbornly cling to the belief that glee, unless he grew up overseas, is mistaken. Otherwise, my entire construct of the world as I know it comes crashing down, and I will have to diminish to the West.
Upon review, I see he’s from England. Crap.
Back in 1997, I remember laughing at a friend of mine because she programmed in COBOL. Then the Y2K panic hit and she made a half million dollars in under two years contracting out to companies to fix their COBOL software. I stopped laughing at her. She still hasn’t stopped laughing at me, though (anybody need a good Pascal programmer?).
I thought this was going to be about old stuff.
I can Fly clear across the country without any radio, navigation equipment except the aircraft compass and maps.
I can harness a team of horses or mules and plow with a walk behind single …
I can rope a calf, and bulldog a steer.
I can skin and cook a rabbit and other critters.
I can roll a hoop with a stick.
I can make Win 95 and 98 do what I want. (Just moved to XP two weeks ago)
I can build a barn with hand tools.
I can use a ‘Friden’ mechanical calculator & slide rule.
I can ‘witch’ iron pipes and big underground power lines.
I can water ski with a boat that the engine is always in gear and can’t idle.
I can drive an “A” hydroplane racing boat.
I can swim for over a mile or for over 4 hours non stop and I’m 64.
I can pull mobile homes without hitting anything.
I cab change a tire from the rim with two big screwdrivers and patch an inner tube.
Of course points and carbs and chokes on vehicles are still a skill.
I can drive an 60’s and older bull dozer.
I can use a pony engine to start a diesel engine.
I can sail a boat, use a sextant, compass, trail a log and reef a sail. Set a wind vane and row a boat.
Weld with a gas rig chop wood with an axe.
I can start a 6 volt car with the starter under the foot feed.
Build a ‘Heath kit’.
I have and can use a set of climbing spikes, top a tree and hoe corn; dig potatoes with a shovel and a burlap bag.
The most out of date and obsolete thing I can and do now is to be courteous and tolerant of my fellow man without giving up my own freedoms.
YMMV.
Truly obsolete: Cross from communist Czechoslovakia into West-Germany without papers.
I got weird looks in grad school doing Critical Path by hand.
How is using a hoe an obsolete skill?
Can you enlighten me as to what this means?
If by “witch” you mean “dowse”, then no you can’t
Did I misunderstand?
No posting of mine will change your mind nor will it change what I have done.
I won’t play your game.
No. they won’t set up a test that I can win a M$ if I can do it.
Just remember, Michelangelo could not paint with an 8" roller. But there it is that chapel thing.
Stuff all around the world that can’t exist but there it is.
Have a nice day.
I don’t generally use calculators, because basic arithmetic is faster in my head.
I compose and hand-write personal letters.
I used a typewriter almost all the way through grad school, until it broke irrevocably and I had to go to the school computer lab to write my thesis.
And I’m actually a lot younger than you might think. Sheer poverty kept me away from a lot of the modern world.
If ‘witching’ works, how has it become obsolete? Is it because there is a better why to do the same job than there was before?
Likewise with courteousness and tolerance… is there something that has made those behaviors obsolete? Is that behavior in any way outmoded in the same way as, for example, hitching up a team of horses?
Pretty much anything relating to B&W darkrooms. I could spool and unspool film in pitch darkness, process negatives, work an enlarger, burn, dodge and filter everything just right, mix all the chemicals and develop the prints.
And perhaps most importantly, not go insane (well, not unhappily insane) by spending hour upon hour in dimly lit isolation with just one Steely Dan tape playing on endless loop. I’d never trade my digital equipment to go back to chemical processing, but I do miss the darkroom.
On older cars (pre 1975) the ignition was controlled by a mechanical switch called the points. When the points closed, electricity was supplied to the coil which created a magnetic field. When the points were opened, the magnetic field collapsed and a high voltage was created that caused the spark plug to err spark. The points were opened by a multi lobed shaft. The number of lobes was the same as the number of cylinders. Every time the lobe caused the points to open, the spark plug fired.
It was very important that the points were set to the correct amount of opening, and the timing of the opening was also occurring at the correct time.
Points typically had an opening specification of about 0.016"-0.018" which is roughly the thickness of a match book cover.
So… If the little screw that held the points in adjustment came loose, you could use a matchbook cover to get them back to where they would work again.
Not only can I do that, I can also set the points on a GM V8 without even a matchbook cover and have it be right on.
I can also balance dual and triple carbs. And rebuild them. I can set Weber DCOEs and IDAs
I can diagnose and repair both Bosch D and K Jetronic systems. Both of these are dead technologies.
Sure, no one asks for folks to find telephone lines, they have maps and sensitive equipment that beats those old ways that don’t work, remember, they don’t work no matter how many times they did long ago, they do not work… It can’t be done. he he he
Anywho, even if someone could, who would be foolish enough to ask? Back in the mountains, maybe some do but in this day and age, not very many places left where the water level is not known and it is so esay to dig deep with drills. Now if all you had was your back and arms and a shovel and about 75 feet was your max depth, who would you ask for where to dig? You had no neighbors for 10 miles or so and all the new fangled gizmo’s were not invented yet.
I take it you have not talked to old timers who were 80 to 100 years old as a kid in the 1950’s…
Did your Dad grow up on a family place where the people who dug the wells were still alive?
I can’t do water. I can do what I said I could.
If there is no call, it is out dated … YMMV
As to hitching a team, well, some folks do it still but it is not a common daily occurrence anymore. Guys who can run Steam Locomotives are few and far between. :: shrug ::: It is obsolete for all practical purposes.
Thanks for not being snarky
I can write a modem init string… and HTML without a WYSIWYG editor.
Most of the other ones I can do have already been mentioned, except this unique skill…
I can make a giant metal spider web out of old beer and soda can pop tops. :o Too bad pop tops went away 30 years ago. LOL.
Do you remember what first replaced pop tops, the intermediate stage before they settled on today’s tabs? It was two perforations that you poked your fingers through. This led to the wonderful practice of the bartender dipping his fingers into your beer when he got it for you. 