[78-L] OT stereo LPs

[Michael Biel]

I have the pre-recorded tape version of Sound In The Round as well as
several disc copies of different vintages.  The November 1957 single
groove stereo LP IS real.  I don't have a copy but I have a CD someone
made of it for me which includes photos of the record and the packaging.
 It was pressed from test lacquers Sidney Frey had Westrex cut for him
after they gave their industry demonstration and offered to cut lacquers
from your stereo tape for companies to test.  They put in some bleeps to
keep someone from doing exactly what Frey did!  One side was train
sounds and the other were some music samples.  Audio Fidelity got out
four real albums in March 1958 which were practically the first to hit
the market.  Three had been previously issued on mono LPs, but one was
Volume Four of the Dukes of Dixieland which was issued simultaneously in
mono and stereo -- the first time it had been done.  The major labels
did not get their first stereo discs out until the late summer.  The
real trick was not getting the records out but getting stereo pick-up
cartridges on the market!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] OT stereo LPs
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, February 16, 2014 11:23 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

A lot of companies were releasing stereo tapes before the LPs appeared.
And 
Audio Fidelity claimed credit for putting out the first single groove
stereo lp 
in (I think) November 1957.

I used that Concert Disc lp for decades for checking left/right. That
ping pong 
game had a nice beat but you couldn't dance to it.

dl

On 2/16/2014 11:16 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> When were the first single groove commercial stereo LPs released? I was
> under the impression that it was in the later 50s, like ca. 1958. But
> now I have acquired a stereo demo record Concert-Disc "Sound in the
> Round" CS-22. Copyright is 1956.
>
> Clarification appreciated.