What types of unusual records have you heard of/have?

[Marco Gilardetti]

I got some Soviet Union records...

I also happen to own one of these, like the one in the first picture with the azure label, but with a sleeve not as funny as yours. In my case it's a Soviet issue of Binario by Claudio Villa. This song was quite late in his career and was issued only on 45 rpm in Italy, so I had to target "exotic" markets to quench my desire to own it on 78 rpm. So yes, these records are perhaps not sought after, but may contain rarities.

I think that this bunch of Soviet records of yours would deserve a thread of its own, once you've listened to them. If some nice choir or some traditional song is featured, that would be very interesting being reported and/or listened to.

[Orchorsol]

One of the most commonplace labels, but unusual subject matter - I've just uploaded this record of a spiritualist trance address to YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOB9lYp4l5U
As mentioned in the notes, gramophone pioneer Percy Wilson was also a prominent spiritualist!

[epigramophone]

I have a number of the records mentioned by others in this thread, but probably my most unusual are two white label single sided 12 inch HMV records with the usual top half of the label but no information as to their content.
They are the Abdication Speech of H.M.King Edward VIII, which was broadcast by the BBC live to the nation at 10.00PM on 11th December 1936 and recorded by BBC engineers in defiance of orders not to do so.

[poodling around]

One of the most commonplace labels, but unusual subject matter - I've just uploaded this record of a spiritualist trance address to YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOB9lYp4l5U
As mentioned in the notes, gramophone pioneer Percy Wilson was also a prominent spiritualist!

Very clear sound - the person could have been 'trancing live' in the corner of your room !

I have box of reel to reel tapes featuring Gordon Mons Higginson and other spiritualists - sadly no 78's though !

Great stuff !

[Orchorsol]

I have box of reel to reel tapes featuring Gordon Mons Higginson and other spiritualists - sadly no 78's though !

Great stuff !

Fascinating, I'd love to hear those!

[Governor Flyball]

I have this 12" shellac disc. Unusual (to me, anyway) because of the 33rpm speed and the centre start. Any information very welcome!

Barry

My guess: Looks to me perhaps incidental intermission music that would be played before or after the films on a Western Electric sound on disc player in a cinema. In the late twenties, that is where 33 ⅓ playback would be. Radio transcription discs date from the thirties and were mainly 16" and contained pre-recorded programs or transcriptions.