[78-L] RCA Special purpose records

[Han Enderman]

I have never seen a Special Purpose label with a 12- prefix.
I assume these were promos for the 12-xxxx Red Seal series.
The common popular issues with a 20- prefix state usually NOT FOR SALE
at the upper rim, and (many/most/all?) have an additional DJ number.
It seems that at first the DJ nr is in larger print than the 20-xxxx nr, but later it
becomes smaller.
Most common are white labels, but black & red also occur.

Han Enderman
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>>> They're DJ copies. We see this format and label on post war pop records 
all the time, it is just more unusual to find classical because there 
were fewer classical stations. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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