Title : A PRESSING MATTER FOR SINGLES...
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A PRESSING MATTER FOR SINGLES...
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A few years ago, I read somewhere as to why some 45 rpm record singles had different centres. (No, I don't mean like chocolates with different flavoured centres - records are for playing, not eating.) Some had large holes in the middle and were made that way and others had 3 or 4 pronged centres that could be pushed out to give them larger holes. If I remember correctly, the large holed ones (featuring American artistes) were made in the States (and one or two other countries) so that the could be played on jukeboxes, and also because US domestic record-players had larger (as in wider, circumference-wise) spindles.
The ones made in the UK had the 3 or 4 pronged push-out centres, so that they could be exported to other countries whose record players had the US-type spindles. These centres also had a small hole in the middle so that they could be played in the UK, so, effectively, they were 'dual purpose' centres. So I know why the differences exist, but here's something where my memory is failing me on. With a few records, I have two copies of the same disc, one with just the small hole in the centre, the other with the push out (if required) middle part. In some cases, the reason may simply be that one is a later pressing, but would I be right in thinking that, sometimes, both versions (of the same record) would be available at the same time?
Why does it matter? Well, if I have record which says 'Recording first published in 1968' (for example), I'd like to think that my pressing was made in 1968 and not 1976 or whenever. On the Suzie Quatro example shown here, you can see that one says 'Manufactured in the Republic of Ireland' though both say that they were 'Made in Gt. Britain', so in this instance, one was made on the mainland (I assume), and the other was made in Ireland, but both count as being British made. Is it simply that a different pressing plant was responsible for one style of record than the other? Or is it more complex (or even more simple) than that? What I'm asking, just to be clear, is could both versions of each single have been pressed in the same respective years?
Any record collectors out there who know for sure? Please refresh my memory.
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