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28th Mar 2013, 10:23 AM
	Pridesale Member since Mar 2013 805 Points	Linked to Promotion Records would/ could include 'Acetate' Cuts, reading Wikipedias Gramophone_record page I find a couple of areas of interest. In talking about types of materials used 'Decelith' is mentioned and shows a blank for making an individually cut one-off recording. A German product introduced in 1937, these were 'flexible' all-plastic discs. I have put flexible in quotes as I am unsure how bendy /flexi these were, is Getalife's entered one like these ?[image]2164[/image] or were EMI using Acetate ? The site also mentions , I think in relation to US mostly. In the late 1930s, radio commercials and pre-recorded radio programs being sent to disc jockeys started being stamped in vinyl, so they would not break in the mail. In the mid-1940s, special DJ copies of records started being made of vinyl also, for the same reason. These were all 78 rpm. So we have, I Think , three kinds of Promo. 1 ) Single Cut or limited run for test or self promotion . 2) DJ Copies - that may have been issued as promotion as I think artists did not get much royalty for radio play in USA , money supposedly came from record sales. 3) Promotional Discs for products and similar ( see List on 45cat 'Advertising Discs' for what I think might be the intended items ? ). Edited by Pridesale on 28th Mar 2013, 10:27 AM

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