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Topic: EMI and Decca test pressings/Demonstration discs

  23rd Apr 2015, 10:59 AM
deepinder cheema

Member since Jan 2013
29 Points
I have had all kinds of test pressings and have made some limited observations.

The earliest test pressing I have is of Tubby Hayes which looks like from the Decca factory. It is the Jazz Couriers and is 2 mono discs one side blank each. I assume Tempo stuff was pressed by Decca.

I have a one sided disc for Zoot Money 1966 only from EMI. This has the security sealed sleeve with identifiers rubber stamped and dated on sleeve

later on in the decade I have had 2 EMI discs for a single LP one side blank through to the late 1970's.

Are there any hard or fast rules and were these test pressings routinely destroyed and what I have is just the LP's being liberated from the factory.


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