DAY, Doris. Best Thing For You Would Be Me. 7” 33 test pressing on 10.5” disc. E
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The Best Thing For You Would Be Me
Doris Day, vocalist
Columbia ZLP 3643-1A (1 7” white label test pressing on 10.5” vinyl disc) prob. 1949
E. Scuff at beginning causes light ticks for a bit.
Content in pencil on label. Issued on Columbia 1-838
This test pressing is of a selection issued in Columbia’s 7” 33 1/3 rpm LP series of vinyl singles. The typeset matrix number appears in the usual place in the dead wax area and, handwritten, in the area between the edge of the record and the beginning of the lead-in groove. See photos. Apparently Columbia had no presses for making 7” records at that time and manufactured them on 10” presses, trimming the 3.5” excess when making the commercial pressings. On this test, the label area is slightly sunken and there are no raised “teeth” surrounding it as on the finished pressings. The edges are a bit rough.
This is a pre-1955 mono LP with a 1.0 mil horizontal, lateral cut groove rather than the later .05 mil stereo groove also used for later mono issues. For best results, use a 1 mil stylus, a mono playback setting that cancels the vertical component which is only noise, and an equalizer set to the Columbia.
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LP-01855
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