[78-L] Stereo copies?

[David Lennick]

If it doesn't say STEREO anywhere on the label, it's mono. Album covers 
generally used only one design for front and back, made longer than actual size 
so that by shifting something, the stereo designation could appear across the 
top or bottom or not at all, and the back cover often showed both mono and 
stereo catalog numbers.

Matrix numbers are usually on the label AND in the dead grooves, although some 
companies never showed them (Capitol, for instance, as well as some small 
labels). As Mike Biel points out, The First Family was such a big seller in 
such a short time that ten pressing plants were called into service. There may 
well be different matrix numbers and certainly different numbers at the end of 
the sequence to indicate which transfer or possibly which set of stampers was 
in use. Mike..which one IS the first?

dl

P G C wrote:
> It is written "recorded in stereo", it is the album back cover, maybe the record itself is mono, I don't know.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to find out? 
> 
P G C also wrote:
> Thanks, now is the time to ask a very old question I have.
> 
> How can I find the matrix numbrer in a record?
> (truly i don't know)