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

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

http://www.jerryosborne.com/5-11-98.htm

about the 45 stereo singles available in the States from the fall of 
'58 on.

BC

Le 24 nov. 08, à 15:42, David Lennick a écrit :

>
> 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).
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