[78-L] Beach Boys 78s

[David Lennick]

They told you not to play stereo records with a monaural needle till 1968 when 
they got fed up with pressing mono and stereo and figured by now everybody had 
stereo equipment. As I recall, the few early compatible stereo releases weren't 
very good. Philips World Series was low level and mushy, others were designed 
to be played on thirty-dollar systems so they never had a chance.

I had a couple of cousins I would cheerfully have traded for good stereo 
equipment but the market in used cousins was glutted at the time.

dl

On 4/18/2011 9:13 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> Our first stereo unit was made by Webcor. My father traded his cousin for it. To get it, he had to give up a broken-down 1959 Hillman and our old swing set. I think the swing set outlasted the other two items. For some reason that I can't recall, I was under the impression that you couldn't play stereo records with a monaural needle because it would ruin the grooves. So the Webcor was used for our stereo LPs and we played all of our mono 45s and LPs on a Garrard RC 88, which I still have. I was 10 so what did I know?
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:29:35 -0400
>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Beach Boys 78s
>>
>> On 4/18/2011 7:06 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>>> Of course. The target audience in those days listened to AM radio and
>>> played 45's on little portable phonos. Dad had the big HI-Fi unit
>>> downstairs and he would not allow that "crap" to play on his equipment.
>>> Ask me. I was there.
>>>
>> I was there too, and starting in 1959 when I was 13 when I bought a
>> record I ALWAYS got the stereo LP if it was available.  *I* was the one
>> in my family who had the big hi-fi unit, but my sister had gotten a
>> Columbia stereo portable with detachable speakers a few months before I
>> got my stereo turntable for my system, and she also was buying pop
>> stereo LPs rather than mono if they were available.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>