Good evening.
I have a question that is possibly simple to ask: for example, on most Yugoslavian records the common format for runouts was simply the catalogue number, side letter and date in format DDMMYY (perhaps the common practice for labels from Yugoslavia). Could this serve as a release date? I have already entered some dates based on it.
So perhaps these aren't the same in lot of occasions? Well, I should have added only the months for releases, because it could usually take a few weeks time (or more) between the cutting and releasing.
Thanks anyway.
To be honest, as I have no knowledge whatsoever about the Yugoslavian record industry, their policy might indeed have been to engrave the official release date in the deadwax :-))
I honestly don't think that's true.
Check out this release http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/lp555364.
Many sources cite the date as 11 September 1979, although the date pressed in runout is 8879 on A side (8 August 1979) and 28879 (28 August 1979), so this marks one of the examples on different dates.
That was not really meant seriously....sorry. But your example disc would support my opinion that either the lacquer cutting or the metalplating was dated, as pressing obviously would have the same date on both sides.
This is an interesting question. I have to say, I have entered some release dates on 45cat based on the runout text on some Yugoslavia ABBA 45s. I have done the same with some releases from South America, some of which have different dates on A and B sides. I'd love to know what the dates really mean. Panama record Yugo record with two dates
Can't help on the date -- but this one is not Panama! If you look at the text around the bottom of the label, it says Industria Peruana and Fabricado por FTA, Peru