[78-L] was: RCA record prevue now more from Ankara

[Francesco Martinelli]

Thank you for all the interesting answers. Ankara is a diplomatic city and 
any kind of interesting records can be found, from Iranian and Lebanese 
vinyls to Russian 78 of Tatar music; plus Turkey was always important in the 
propaganda strategy so I guess quite a lot of material was shipped to radio 
stations and such. In the last weeks I found a bunch of Fuentes Lps from 
Columbia with various Latin American artists (including Cubans) and two 
early Odeon 10" Lp from France, one by Armstrong with a 78-like sleeve 
(label logo and hole to see the label) one by Ellington with a proper 
sleeve, both stamped July 1953 (import dues into Turkey). Very interesting 
in my continuing research on record packhaging. These usually come cheap, 
compared to early Turkish Lp - some can have prices over 100 Liras (50 
bucks) and original printing of Anatolian rock are even more expensive. Same 
with early 78; those of regional interest (for example in Kurdish or Laz) 
can be extremely expensive, while I bought nice jazz 78 by Johnny Hodges' 
band on English HMV for 5/7 dollars.
fm




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] RCA record prevue


> Francesco Martinelli wrote:
>> in an Ankara shop I found a bunch of vinyl 78 with indication RCA Victor
>> record prevue, DJ copy. I guess they were used for broadcasting since
>> they're not in a very good shape and many of them have duration 
>> handwritten
>> in big letters on the labels. I bought one by the Sauter-Finegan 
>> orchestra
>> but it's full of crackle. Were these released on vinyl for DJ and on 
>> shellac
>> for general market, or these late 78 were already on vinyl?
>> Thanks for any info,
>> fm
> Surprising to see these records so far from home!  Yes, you are right,
> these thin vinyl pressings were not used for the regular commercial
> copies, but RCA had developed a very, very quiet shellac in the 50s that
> was just about as quiet as shellac and even wore a little better if not
> misplayed.  By 1956 some commercial pressings were on a hard, stiff
> plastic, probably some type of mixture.   I have a plastic Elvis 78, but
> most are shellac.  The thin vinyl did show up on some RCA Custom
> pressings and some educational series album sets.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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