SINATRA Rat Pack SAMMY DAVIS DEAN MARTIN EMIDISC 45 ACETATE! ME AND MY SHADOW

Sold Date: January 1, 2021
Start Date: November 14, 2020
Final Price: $15.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 3714
Buyer Feedback: 328


 
This is a super rare item, nobody has one of these! The Rat Pack in their prime with Me and My Shadow by Frank and Sammy, and Sam's Song by Sammy and Dean! I've never seen one before and I could find no others listed on ebay anywhere! Good luck ever finding one of these! I test played both sides and there were no skips on my system (that is a Luxman turntable fitted with a Denon 301 MK II mc cartridge),  but I absolutely will not guarantee this on anyone else's system and I am selling this as a collectible only, NOT for playing,  as this really shouldn't be played very much, and especially on anything that isn't tracking with a very light weight because these are basically audition records given out to a very limited number of persons either involved in the recording or otherwise, and they were not intended for routine use or commercial use. With that said this is visually looks good with rubs and light marks and the playback was better than that. I heard a few pops on Me and My Shadow, not too many, but Sam's Song didn't seem to have any.

Emidisc was a brand of lacquer (sometime known as acetate or instantaneous disc) that was introduced to the UK market perhaps as early as 1946 (when the Emidisc name was trademarked) by EMI. They were made under license from the Pyral company in France that had invented the nitrocellulose lacquer-coated disc in 1934 and that also licensed the process to Audio Devices, Inc. for their Audiodisc  brand in the US.

Emidiscs appear to mostly have been used by by recording studios either as master discs or to give to clients to hear at home what they had recorded in the studio. Some had an extra drive pin hole to prevent slippage on simpler cutting machines that lacked a vacuum to hold the disc in place. Like many other lacquer discs, the core of an Emidisc is made of aluminium, making the disc much heavier than a standard shellac or vinyl record.

Emidiscs may have typed or handwritten information on the label, and can be difficult to date.
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