[78-L] Story of the LP (queries)

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

I have some RCA-Victor stereo singles from 1959: the 67-xxxx series 
(Bing Crosby, Gogi Grant...). They were available in German pressings 
at the time with the same reference, too.

BC
Le 24 nov. 08, à 04:48, David Lennick a écrit :

>
> A promo rep brought one of the first stereo singles into the station 
> in '68, an
> Al Caiola record on United Artists. US pressing. I'm pretty sure we 
> didn't
> begin to see Canadian pressed stereo 45s till 1971, and again, a promo 
> rep
> leapt in the air (they used to do that in those days) and handed me a 
> new Elton
> John single. Big whoop, we were an AM station.
>
> dl
>
> William A Brent wrote:
>> I believe that Three Dog Night's "Shambala" was the last charted 
>> single to be
>> mastered in mono only (to date no true stereo version has surfaced)
>>
>>
>> At 07:36 PM 11/23/2008, you wrote:
>>> 1968 was the year American companies stopped issuing new recordings 
>>> in mono.
>>> There are some exceptions, and there were a couple of labels that 
>>> merely
>>> printed mono labels and mono jackets but pressed from only one set 
>>> of masters
>>> (aside from those that proclaimed "compatible mono-stereo"). Some 
>>> very late
>>> mono issues are rare because of the artists (I think the Elvis 
>>> "Speedway"
>>> soundtrack is valuable in mono).
>>
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