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My commercial 45, which is stereo, has a listed time of (2:45), but an actual time of (2:40).

I could swear my commercial 45 on UA is mono. I know all the follow up
45's were stereo. Now I'll have to go dig it out and check.

I have three stock 45s from two different pressing plants, all on the tan and brown UA label. Two are identical vinyl pressings, which, judging from some of the type fonts, are from Plastic Products. Deadwax is "UAST 6772 X" with "BERT" written in all caps on both copies.

The other is a styrene Philips Recording Co. pressing, with deadwax "UAST-6772-X-1-1-1" and "Bert" written in script.

All three copies state and play stereo.

Jim, just to clarify what was going on with UA at the time: Transamerica Corporation had owned both United Artists and the Liberty/Imperial family of labels for about three years when they picked up national distribution for this single. There was no change in ownership in 1971; instead, Transamerica made the decision to fold the Liberty labels into the United Artists Records operation, which itself had moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 1969, when the blue-red-and-white UA label with the Transamerica/NYC blurb on the label's perimeter was replaced by the black-and-orange design with the Liberty/UA-Los Angeles perimeter info.

The UA label remained an indie before and after the 1971 consolidation, although at some point by 1972, it was being distributed through Phonogram. That arrangement didn't last long, and by 1973, United Artists Records, which Transamerica had reorganized as the United Artists Music And Records Group, was once again being independently distributed. Transamerica sold UAMARG to the division's management executives in 1978; a deal which was doomed when Don Arden got wind of it, threatening to pull his Jet label from UAMARG distribution if Transamerica sold UAMARG. They did, he did and without its biggest moneymaker, ELO, the label faltered, financially. In 1979, UA's new owners defaulted on the loan they'd gotten from EMI to buy the company from Transamerica. The UA label continued to operate autonomously after EMI took over its operations, and it was at this time that the label's corporate name changed to Liberty/United Records, Inc.

The United Artists trademark had been licensed for a specified period of time by Transamerica (which retained the UA film division) following the initial sale of UAMARG, and with the expiration of that licensing agreement, the United Artists label name was permanently retired in favor of Liberty, at the time the Vapors' "Turning Japanese" was a hit.

Back to that 1971 transition: I remember being rather amused upon buying a copy of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "House At Pooh Corner" 45: it featured big front and back photos of the parent Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy album cover on the respective sides of the 45's picture sleeve, with a prominent "From the Liberty Album..." and LST-7642 catalog number on the bottom of both sides, as well as on the record label itself. After all that Liberty business, it seemed pretty odd to see the brand-new tan and brown United Artists label on the 45 itself!   

jimct wrote: Both my UA stock 45 copies are stereo (although it doesn't feature the widest stereo separation I've ever heard), are on the cream label, has no mention of Liberty on them, with deadwax of "UAST 6772-1".

Well that could go down as the understatement of the week.
My stock copy agrees with yours, and there is extremely
little separation to the point where up until now I always
considered this to be mono.