I thought this was interesting (maybe you lot won't though). I was looking at Judy Freeman - Hold On on RCA demo and on the right hand side it says:

Intro :17

End: Cold

I checked and the intro is 17 seconds long and of course we all know it stops dead at the end. This is obviously a message to the DJs at the stations or wherever letting them know how long they could talk into the record for example (before the vocal starts) and what to expect at the end of the record so they aren't wrongfooted by the dead stop.

Any other examples of this on other demos?

often stuff like this (intro time, etc.) is printed on the label. obviously the most common "note to DJ" is putting x's on the label.

yeah, happens a lot, sometimes the fade out will be timed too.

On some CD demos there is a physical countdown of the intro that shows on the CD player.

I think what's more interesting than notes to DJs is when a record is given to a family member or significant other and there is a long, personalized note written on the label. I have a few like that, my scanner is broken, I will try to take photos when I get a chance.

Or signed by the artist "To Sally" of whatever.

always wondered what 'Cold' meant lol....alays great for catching the unknowing dancers out

Well, this might be slightly off topic but touching on Bobs reply about people writing notes on 45's...Have you ever found one with

your own name written on it? And I don't mean something you previously owned that came back around to you, I mean a record that was

originally owned by someone with your exact name!.... I haven't...I have a record with my full initials on it though, and I can't remember what

the record is now. Also there was a once a young lady named Barbara Greene that apparently lived around here and her records are

seriously getting around.. At least a couple of people I know including myself have picked up bits and pieces of her collection. There I am going

WAY off topic. Apologies.

jacob

yep beer talk...often guilty myself!

i don't see it anymore because there aren't many to be found anymore (and there are like no more record stores) but it was interesting when huge record collections got dumped and distributed across record stores in the city, with the same name written on all the records or other common features. Like there was one big collection that had braille stickers on each label (obviously a blind person's collection). I thought that was kind of cool. I also like how it sort of invokes a time when certain people bought tons of records because they were real music lovers and personalizing the records added to their personal connection to the music somehow ... instead of the medium being a fetishized object that had to be kept pristine, in order, etc.

Talking of names on records (slightly off topic, sorry) but when I bought Dee Edwards ages ago I wondered if the name 'Doris' which was written a couple of times on the label , was infact her own copy at some point , as Dee was actually christened Doris?

Or maybe just a coincidence

https://www.popsike.com/DEE-EDWARDS-RARE-DETO-LBL-I-CAN-DEAL-WITH-THAT-HEAR/260720400667.html

Cheers

Swifty