The phrase "a certain record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific record that is known or relevant in a particular context, but not explicitly named.
Example: "The investigation revealed a certain record that could change the outcome of the case."
Alternatives: "a specific record" or "a particular record".
I'd swap things: a cymbal for a certain record … Then I'd go to Ray's Jazz Shop (4).
The website posting, titled "Curtain Call", begins with word of a failed concert DVD project, which is blamed on "a certain record company that owns some of the song rights".
Gina Gionfriddo's "Squalor" takes a skewed look at the search for Internet pedophiles, and "Specter," by Neena Beber, is a daffy take on a certain record producer named Phil.
Lilley says he would never tell a DJ not to play a certain record in his clubs - "by banning the record, you're not going to solve the problem" - but admits that the shift towards urban music in gay clubs is not without its critics.
He has also been in the record business and tells of one time holding a disc jockey by his ankles from a ninth-floor window to get him to see the error of his ways in taking payola to play a certain record without in fact playing the record.
"Everyone remembers the first sportsman to achieve a certain record," the Australian said.
If you gain 50 or 100 fans on a certain recording you've made, you unlock new songs without having to pay for them.
Mr. Swartz said that cellphone users liked classical music as ring tones not just because they liked a certain recording, but because the classical ring tones are rarer and seem less intrusive than ones based on popular music.
The 1980's and early 90's was a time when certain record shops, small record labels (Sub Pop, SST, etc).
"As a result, certain records and individuals were unavailable to the N.F.L".
These additional outlier analyses use external environmental and geographical (depth) data to assess the credibility of a certain distribution record, when compared with the available distribution records within the checked dataset or within OBIS as a whole.
