[78-L] Mystery record

[Han Enderman]

The record nr is RO-100.
This appears to have been distributed with the newspaper in December 1932.
The 27 items were revealed in Daily Mail 16 Jan 1933.
The R-prefixes were used for special records/series, like RE for Empire Day Messages.
What is the meaning of the "R" ?

- han enderman
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>>> Ambrose moved over to Decca in March 1933, but this isn't listed under his name 
or Geraldo's. And the matrix numbers could be late 1932 or early 1933, 
depending on which studio that block was assigned to.

dl

On 9/18/2012 3:27 PM, Jack Raymond wrote:
> I happen to have that record in its original Mystery Record sleeve as
> well as the "Solution" listing artists and bands.  In case anyone cares,
> they are Ambrose and his Orchestra, Leslie Hutchinson, Derickson&
> Brown, Binnie Hale, Doris Hare, Howard Jacobs, Robert Naylor, Billy
> Mayerl, Raie da Costa, Debroy Somers Band, Geraldo's Gaucho Orchestra,
> Peter Dawson, Harold Williams, Albert Sandler, George Baker, Raymond
> Newell, Jack Mackintosh, Bobby Howes, Frances Day, Melville Gideon, De
> Groot, John Moorel, Albert Sammons, Heddle Nash, Cedric Sharpe, Patricia
> Rossborough, and Sam Browne.
>
> -- Jack Raymond
>
>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>
>>   I have a copy of this thanks to winning it a few Nauctions ago.
>> OB.4509 and OB.4510.  Suffix markings in the dead wax are a square to the
>> right of the last digit and a capital I above it.  Another set of numbers
>> in the dead wax:  30-10017 on side 1, 30-10018 on side 2.  Lead out areas
>> very similar in some respects to late-1920s US Victors such as the double
>> eccentric grooves....
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:16 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>
>> I got a copy of that from Jim Hadfield, I think..if you can name one
>> of the
>> tunes, I can cross reference it in the British Dance Bands book. Matrix
>> numbers? Does it have an HMV style runout?
>>
>> On 9/18/2012 3:14 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>
>> I found another interesting record, around the edge of the label it
>> says "Zonophone,
>>   His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal".  In the top
>> half of the label where the company name usually appears, it says, "Daily
>> Mail Mystery Record" and in the title area it says, "?1950 for naming the
>> artists", (if the first character doesn't come through it's a Pound sign).
>>   I have no idea how old this record is but it certainly isn't after the
>> early '30s and that seems like a lot of money for a prize.  Each side
>> contains a medley of popular tunes sung by different artists and some
>> instrumental solos.  Each side offers that amount of money for a prize.
>>   I'm sure people on this list would be able to identify all the artists.
>
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