[78-L] RCA Special purpose records

[David Lennick]

Virtually all of mine have come out of radio station libraries. Most of them show the timing, which was not printed on commercial pressings till the mid or late 50s..some even show the time to where the vocal starts, and some have a descriptive paragraph for the disc jockey on the cover.

 

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> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 19:05:00 +0000
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: agp2176 at verizon.net
> Subject: Re: [78-L] RCA Special purpose records
> 
> I have a 10 inch shellac in this 'series'. Its not classical, but 
> rather popular output. Black label with gold printing (its somewhere 
> in the stash).
> 
> Someone along the way told me that these were used as promo items 
> such as demo records in shops.
> 
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