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Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.



Yes there were several Living Stereo 45s on the market.  I have at least two classical issues.  Not sure of the titles right off hand but one is of the Boston Pops.  Regular black shaded dog era type labels.

Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Schurk 
  To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:48 AM
  Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.


  YO:
    
    Back in the late '50's or very early '60's, while living in Klevetown,  I used to haunt (and hunt in) our local Gray drugstores and Giant Tiger  stores (like K-mart today) for jukebox dumps for 45's (and early  on--78's).  The prices were 35 cents and 29 cents  respectively.  Ya gotta believe there wer some kool discs.   But then does one need 25 copies of the Champs "Train to  nowhere"?.  You DID have that luxury of picking out the one in  best condition (A-side was the whacked one)
    Well................, during that heyday I picked up two stereo 45's,  both from early 1959 and both were charted tunes.  The koolest one  was Castin' my spell/Telephone baby by the Johnny Otis Show (Capitol  S4168) on a red label.  The other one is a ho-hum but still  stereo  Tab Hunter (I'll be with you) In apple blossom time/(What  can I give) My only love (Warner Bros. S 5032)
    
    So the question is who used them and where they played??    Why were they in with  this otherwise mono platters??   Radio??  Juke boxes??  Home use??
    
    We were in a different, but changing world then.
    
    And...where could they be purchased??  Not at my Record Rendezvous at 300 Prospect.
    
    Bill Schurk
    Sound Recordings Archivist
    Bowling Green State University
    
    Lottsa questions.

  steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" 
  > Weren't there some RCA Living Stereo 45s,too?
  > Steven Smolian  wrote:  1967 or 1957? And the Blumlein
  78s?
  >
  I don't know exactly when stereo 45's first appeared...but I DO know they
  were being pressed by 1973 or so, because I was deejaying at Illinois
  State's carrier-current radio station then, and we were getting stereo
  promo 45's!

  Steven C. Barr


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