[78-L] RCA Special purpose records

[David Lennick]

That was Victor's terminology for DJ pressing, before they went to "Record Prevue". Reviewers and possibly record distributors may have received these as well. I've seen these with white, black and "rose" labels, sometimes with a different runout groove.

 

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> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:14:37 -0500
> From: neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] RCA Special purpose records
> 
> I've never seen these before, just acquired a few of them.
> 
> It is a 12" vinyl 78 rpm. It appears identical to a regular commercial 
> 78, other than being made of the lighter and flexible material. The 
> label is the same except that it says "special purpose record" jut above 
> the center hole.
> 
> So what was the special purpose? Is there any difference in these and a 
> plain ol' 78 shellac?
> 
> I have Chopin's Barcarolle played by Artur Rubinstein on 12-0378
> and Bernstein plays Ravel Piano Concerto in G on DM 1209. The usual run 
> out info looks like any other record - matrix & catalog. There's also a 
> 5-pointed star at about 3 pm reference the label (on the Bernstein. 
> Iturbi doesn't follow the pattern and has no matrix info in the run out).
> 
> Iturbi is 12-0242, a coupla Tchaikovsky selections.
> 
> So what am I looking at?
> 
> joe salerno
> 
> 
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