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Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.
On 15/06/06, Bill Schurk wrote:
> 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??
My recollection is that in Britain, people were beginning to buy stereo players
in 1959-60. I think it would be the summer of 1960 when I bought my
first one, a Decca model.
It would be winter of 1958-9 that I first heard a demo of stereo.
A few well-off people had stereo tape players well before that, of course.
The US may have been a year or so ahead.
>
> 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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