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

[David Lennick]

True, there was a very brief series..how many labels tried this at the time? 
There were also 7-inch 33RPM stereo discs, mostly for juke boxes but I've also 
seen one 7-inch Everest stereo 33 disc (Charlie Barnet).

dl

Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
> 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).