List of mono and Stereo 45s - 1969
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Topic: List of mono and Stereo 45s - 1969
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: List of mono and Stereo 45s - 1969
Date Posted: 23 January 2012 at 11:15pm
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The following is a list of every single that peaked on the Billboard Top 40 chart in 1969 (based on Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual 1955-1999 publication) and also includes the Top 40 hits Pat has included in the database based a composite of other music charts. Through extensive research (and the assistance of many, many posted contributions here on this message board from very helpful board members, especially my good friend Jim a.k.a. "jimct"), I've made my best efforts to determine whether the corresponding commercial 45 release for each single was issued in mono or stereo. This list only accounts for original 45 releases and not later re-issues.
I have posted a mono/stereo 45 list for each year from 1968-1975 (see links below) and hope forum members and fellow music collectors will find these lists to be a useful reference guide. I also highly encourage anyone to let me know if there are any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions so that I can make the necessary corrections. Adams, Johnny - "Reconsider Me" (mono) Anka, Paul - "Goodnight My Love" (mono) Arbors, The - "The Letter" (mono) Archies, The - "Sugar, Sugar" (mono and stereo) Barbour, Keith - "Echo Park" (mono) Beach Boys, The - "I Can Hear Music" (stereo) Beatles, The - "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (stereo) Beatles, The - "Come Together" (stereo) Beatles, The - "Don't Let Me Down" (stereo) Beatles, The - "Get Back" (stereo) Beatles, The - "Something" (stereo) Bee Gees, The - "First of May" (mono) Bee Gees, The - "I Started a Joke" (mono) Bell, Archie, & the Drells - "There's Gonna Be a Showdown" (mono) Bell, William - "I Forgot to Be a Lover" (mono) Blood, Sweat & Tears - "And When I Die" (mono) Blood, Sweat & Tears - "Spinning Wheel" (mono) Blood, Sweat & Tears - "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (mono) Booker T. & the MG's - "Hang 'Em High" (mono) Booker T. & the MG's - "Mrs. Robinson" (mono) Booker T. & the MG's - "Time Is Tight" (mono) Box Tops, The - "Soul Deep" (mono) Box Tops, The - "Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March" (mono) Brooklyn Bridge, The - "Blessed Is the Rain" (mono) Brooklyn Bridge - "Worst That Could Happen" (mono) Brown, James - "Give It up or Turnit a Loose" (mono) Brown, James - "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open up the Door, I'll Get It Myself" (mono) Brown, James - "Let a Man Come in and Do the Popcorn Part One" (stereo) Brown, James - "Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) Part 1" (stereo) Brown, James - "The Popcorn" (stereo) Brown, James - "World (Part 1)" (stereo) Bubble Puppy, The - "Hot Smoke & Sasafrass" (mono) Buchanan Brothers - "Medicine Man (Part I)" (mono) Butler, Jerry - "Are You Happy" (mono) Butler, Jerry - "Moody Woman" (mono) Butler, Jerry - "Only the Strong Survive" (mono) Butler, Jerry - "What's the Use of Breaking Up" (mono) Campbell, Glen - "Galveston" (mono) Campbell, Glen - "True Grit" (stereo) Campbell, Glen - "Try a Little Kindness" (stereo) Campbell, Glen - "Where's the Playground Susie" (stereo) Campbell, Glen - "Wichita Lineman" (mono) Campbell, Glen, and Bobbie Gentry - "Let It Be Me" (stereo) Canned Heat - "Going up the Country" (mono) Carr, Vikki - "With Pen in Hand" (mono) Carter, Clarence - "Snatching It Back" (mono) Carter, Clarence - "Too Weak to Fight" (mono) Cash, Johnny - "A Boy Named Sue" (mono) Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys - "Good Old Rock 'n' Roll" (stereo) Charles, Sonny, and the Checkmates, Ltd. - "Black Pearl" (mono) Christie, Lou - "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" (mono) Clark, Roy - "Yesterday, When I Was Young" (mono) Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost - "Everyday with You Girl" (mono) Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost - "Traces" (mono) Clique, The - "I'll Hold out My Hand" (stereo) Clique, The - "Sugar on Sunday" (mono) Collins, Judy - "Someday Soon" (stereo) Como, Perry - "Seattle" (mono) Cowsills, The - "Hair" (mono) Crazy Elephant - "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" (mono) Cream - "Crossroads" (mono) Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad Moon Rising" (mono) Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Commotion" (mono) Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Down on the Corner" (mono) Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Green River" (mono) Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son" (mono) Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Proud Mary" (mono) Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Marrakesh Express" (mono) Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (mono) Cuff Links, The - "Tracy" (mono) Davis, Sammy, Jr. - "I've Gotta Be Me" (mono) Davis, Tyrone - "Can I Change My Mind" (mono) Davis, Tyrone - "Is It Something You've Got" (mono) Deal, Bill, & the Rhondels - "I've Been Hurt" (mono) Deal, Bill, & the Rhondels - "May I" (mono) Deal, Bill, & the Rhondels - "What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am" (mono) Dekker, Desmond, & the Aces - "Israelites" (mono) Delfonics, The - "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)" (mono) Delfonics, The - "You Got Yours and I'll Get Mine" (mono) Dells, The - "Does Anybody Know I'm Here" (mono) Dells, The - "I Can Sing a Rainbow/Love Is Blue" (stereo) Dells, The - "Oh, What a Night" (stereo) Derek - "Cinnamon" (mono) DeShannon, Jackie - "Love Will Find a Way" (mono) DeShannon, Jackie - "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (mono) Diamond, Neil - "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" (mono) Diamond, Neil - "Holly Holy" (mono) Diamond, Neil - "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)" (mono) Donovan - "Atlantis" (mono) Donovan - "Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)" (mono) Donovan - "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" (mono) Doors, The - "Touch Me" (stereo) Doors, The - "Wishful Sinful" (mono and stereo) Dyke and the Blazers - "Let a Woman Be a Woman - Let a Man Be a Man" (mono) Dyke and the Blazers - "We Got More Soul" (mono) Dylan, Bob - "Lay Lady Lay" (mono) Electric Indian, The - "Keem-o-sabe" (mono) Emotions, The - "So I Can Love You" (mono) Everett, Betty - "There'll Come a Time" (mono) 4 Seasons, The - "And That Reminds Me (My Heart Reminds Me)" (stereo) 5th Dimension, The - "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" (mono) 5th Dimension, The - "California Soul" (mono) 5th Dimension, The - "Wedding Bell Blues" (mono) 5th Dimension, The - "Workin' on a Groovy Thing" (mono) First Edition, The - "But You Know I Love You" (mono) Flaming Ember, The - "Mind, Body and Soul" (mono) Flirtations, The - "Nothing but a Heartache" (mono) Flying Machine, The - "Smile a Little Smile for Me" (mono) Foundations, The - "Build Me up Buttercup" (mono) Foundations, The - "In the Bad, Bad Old Days" (mono) Franklin, Aretha - "Eleanor Rigby" (mono) Franklin, Aretha - "I Can't See Myself Leaving You" (mono) Franklin, Aretha - "My Song" (mono) Franklin, Aretha - "Share Your Love with Me" (mono and stereo) Franklin, Aretha - "The Weight" (mono) Friends of Distinction - "Going in Circles" (stereo) Friends of Distinction - "Grazing in the Grass" (stereo) Gaye, Marvin - "That's the Way Love Is" (mono and stereo) Gaye, Marvin - "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (mono) Gaye, Marvin, & Tammi Terrell - "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" (mono) Grass Roots, The [The Grassroots] - "Bella Linda" (mono) Grass Roots, The - "Heaven Knows" (mono) Grass Roots, The - "I'd Wait a Million Years" (mono) Grass Roots, The [The Grassroots] - "Lovin' Things" (mono) Grass Roots, The [The Grassroots] - "The River Is Wide" (mono) Grean, Charles Randolph, Sounde, The - "Quentin's Theme" (mono) Greaves, R.B. - "Take a Letter Maria" (mono) Green, Garland - "Jealous Kind of Fella" (mono) Guess Who, The - "Laughing" (stereo) Guess Who, The - "These Eyes" (stereo) Guess Who, The - "Undun" (stereo) Hawkins, Edwin, Singers, The, featuring Dorothy Combs Morrison - "Oh Happy Day" (stereo) Hayes, Isaac - "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (mono) Hayes, Isaac - "Walk on By" (mono) Hopkin, Mary - "Goodbye" (stereo) Humperdinck, Engelbert - "I'm a Better Man" (mono) Humperdinck, Engelbert - "The Way It Used to Be" (mono) Hyman, Dick, & His Electric Eclectics - "The Minotaur" (mono) Illusion, The - "Did You See Her Eyes" (mono) Impressions, The - "Choice of Colors" (mono) Impressions, The - "This Is My Country" (mono) Intrigues, The - "In a Moment" (mono) Isley Brothers, The - "I Turned You On" (mono) Isley Brothers, The - "It's Your Thing" (mono) James, Tommy, and the Shondells - 'Ball of Fire" (mono) James, Tommy, and the Shondells - "Crimson and Clover" (mono) James, Tommy, and the Shondells - "Crystal Blue Persuasion" (mono) James, Tommy, and the Shondells - "Sweet Cherry Wine" (mono) Jay & the Americans - "This Magic Moment" (mono) Jeffrey, Joe, The, Group - "My Pledge of Love" (mono) Jones, Tom - "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (mono) Jones, Tom - "Love Me Tonight" (mono) Joplin, Janis - "Kozmic Blues" (mono) Kim, Andy - "Baby, I Love You" (mono) Kim, Andy - "So Good Together" (stereo) Knight, Gladys, & the Pips - "Friendship Train" (mono) Knight, Gladys, & the Pips - "The Nitty Gritty" (mono) Laine, Frankie - "You Gave Me a Mountain" (mono) Lee, Brenda - "Johnny One Time" (mono) Lee, Peggy - "Is That All There Is" (stereo) Lennon, John [Plastic Ono Band] - "Give Peace a Chance" (stereo) Lettermen, The - "Hurt So Bad" (stereo) Mabley, Moms - "Abraham, Martin & John" (mono) Mama Cass - "It's Getting Better" (mono) Mama Cass Elliot - "Make Your Own Kind of Music" (mono) Mancini, Henry, and His Orchestra - "Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet" (stereo) Mel and Tim - "Backfield in Motion" (mono) Mercy - "Love (Can Make You Happy)" (mono) Meters, The - "Cissy Strut" (mono) Meters, The - "Sophisticated Cissy" (mono) Motherlode - "When I Die" (mono) Neon Philharmonic, The - "Morning Girl" (mono) New Colony Six - "Things I'd Like to Say" (mono) Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin'" (stereo) Nilsson - "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City" (stereo) 1910 Fruitgum Co. - "Indian Giver" (mono) 1910 Fruitgum Co. - "Special Delivery" (mono) Ohio Express - "Mercy" (mono) Oliver - "Good Morning Starshine" (mono) Oliver - "Jean" (mono and stereo) Oliver - "Sunday Mornin'" (mono and stereo) Originals, The - "Baby, I'm for Real" (mono) Peppermint Rainbow, The - "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" (mono) Peter, Paul & Mary - "Day Is Done" (mono) Peter, Paul & Mary - "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (mono) Pickett, Wilson - "Hey Jude" (mono) Presley, Elvis - "Clean up Your Own Backyard" (mono) Presley, Elvis - "If I Can Dream" (mono) Presley, Elvis - "In the Ghetto" (mono) Presley, Elvis - "Memories" (mono) Presley, Elvis - "Suspicious Minds" (mono) Puckett, Gary, and the Union Gap - "Don't Give in to Him" (mono) Puckett, Gary, and the Union Gap - "This Girl Is a Woman Now" (mono) Rascals, The - "A Ray of Hope" (mono) Rascals, The - "Heaven" (mono) Rascals, The - "See" (stereo) Rascals, The - "Carry Me Back" (stereo) Rawls, Lou - "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" (stereo) Redding, Otis - "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (mono) Reid, Clarence - "Nobody But You Babe" (mono) Rene & Rene - "Lo Mucho Que te Quiero (The More I Love You)" (mono) Revere, Paul, and the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay - "Let Me" (mono) Revere, Paul, and the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay - "Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon" (mono) Revere, Paul, and the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay - "We Gotta All Get Together" (stereo) Reynolds, Lawrence - "Jesus Is a Soul Man" (mono) Rivers, Johnny - "Muddy River" (mono) Robinson, Smokey, & the Miracles - "Abraham, Martin & John" (mono) Robinson, Smokey, & the Miracles - "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" (mono) Robinson, Smokey, & the Miracles - "Doggone Right" (mono) Robinson, Smokey, & the Miracles - "Here I Go Again" (mono) Roe, Tommy - "Dizzy" (mono) Roe, Tommy - "Heather Honey" (mono) Rogers, Kenny, and the First Edition - "Reuben James" (mono and stereo) Rogers, Kenny, and the First Edition - "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (mono) Rolling Stones, The - "Honky Tonk Women" (mono) Ross, Diana, and the Supremes - "The Composer" (mono) Ross, Diana, and the Supremes - "I'm Livin' in Shame" (mono) Ross, Diana, and the Supremes - "No Matter What Sign You Are" (mono) Ross, Diana, and the Supremes - "Someday We'll Be Together" (mono) Ross, Diana, and the Supremes & the Temptations - "I'll Try Something New" (mono) Ross, Diana, and the Supremes & the Temptations - "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (mono) Ross, Diana, and the Supremes & the Temptations - "The Weight" (stereo) Royal, Billy Joe - "Cherry Hill Park" (mono) Royal Guardsmen, The - "Baby Let's Wait" (mono) Ruffin, David - "My Whole World Ended (the Moment You Left Me)" (mono) Rugbys, The - "You, I" (mono) Santamaria, Mongo - "Cloud Nine" (mono) Scott, Peggy, & Jo Jo Benson - "Soulshake" (mono) Seger, Bob, System - "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" (mono) Sherman, Bobby - "Little Woman" (mono and stereo) Simon, Joe - "The Chokin' Kind" (mono) Simon & Garfunkel - "The Boxer" (mono) Sinatra, Frank - "My Way" (mono) Sir Douglas Quintet - "Mendocino" (mono) Sly & the Family Stone - "Everyday People" (mono) Sly & the Family Stone - "Hot Fun in the Summertime" (mono) Sly & the Family Stone - "Stand!" (mono) Smith - "Baby It's You" (mono) Smith, O.C. - "Daddy's Little Man" (mono) South, Joe - "Games People Play" (mono) Spiral Starecase - "More Today Than Yesterday" (mono) Spirit - "I Got a Line on You" (mono) Springfield, Dusty - "A Brand New Me" (mono) Springfield, Dusty - "Son-of-a Preacher Man" (mono) Springfield, Dusty - "The Windmills of Your Mind" (mono) Starr, Edwin - "Twenty-Five Miles" (mono) Steam - "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" (mono) Steppenwolf - "It's Never Too Late" (mono) Steppenwolf - "Move Over" (mono) Steppenwolf - "Rock Me" (mono) Stevens, Ray - "Along Came Jones" (mono) Stevens, Ray - "Gitarzan" (mono and stereo) Swann, Bettye - "Don't Touch Me" (mono) Taylor, Johnnie - "Take Care of Your Homework" (mono) Taylor, Johnnie - "Testify (I Wonna)" (mono) Temptations, The - "Cloud Nine" (mono) Temptations, The - "Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down" (mono) Temptations, The - "I Can't Get Next to You" (mono) Temptations, The - "Run Away Child, Running Wild" (mono) Thomas, B.J. - "Hooked on a Feeling" (mono) Thomas, B.J. - "It's Only Love" (mono) Three Dog Night - "Easy to Be Hard" (mono) Three Dog Night - "Eli's Coming" (mono) Three Dog Night - "One" (mono) Three Dog Night - "Try a Little Tenderness" (mono) Thunderclap Newman - "Something in the Air" (stereo) Turtles, The - "You Showed Me" (mono) Underground Sunshine - "Birthday" (mono) Unifics, The - "The Beginning of My End" (mono and stereo) Valli, Frankie - "The Girl I'll Never Know (Angels Never Fly This Low)" (mono) Ventures, The - "Hawaii Five-O" (mono) Venus, Vik, Alias: Your Main Moon Man - "Moonflight" (mono) Vinton, Bobby - "The Days of Sand and Shovels" (mono) Vinton, Bobby - "To Know You Is to Love You" (mono) Vogues, The - "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" (mono) Vogues, The - "No, Not Much" (mono) Vogues, The - "Woman Helping Man" (mono) Walker, Jr., & the All Stars - "These Eyes" (mono) Walker, Jr., & the All Stars - "What Does It Take (to Win Your Love)" (mono) Warwick, Dionne - "The April Fools" (mono) Warwick, Dionne - "This Girl's in Love with You" (mono) Warwick, Dionne - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (mono) Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, The - "Do Your Thing" (mono) White, Tony Joe - "Polk Salad Annie" (mono) Who, The - "I'm Free" (stereo) Who, The - "Pinball Wizard" (stereo) Wilcox, Harlow, and the Oakies - "Groovy Grubworm" (mono) Williams, Andy - "Happy Heart" (mono) Wind - "Make Believe" (mono) Winstons, The - "Color Him Father" (stereo) Wonder, Stevie - "I Don't Know Why" (mono) Wonder, Stevie - "Ma Cherie Amour" (mono) Wonder, Stevie - "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (mono) Wynette, Tammy - "Stand by Your Man" (mono) Young-Holt Unlimited - "Soulful Strut" (mono) Youngbloods, The - "Get Together" (mono) Zager & Evans "In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" (stereo) Zombies, The - "Time of the Season" (mono) Click this link for: http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6618&PN=2 - List of Mono and Stereo 45s - 1968 Click this link for: http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6625&PN=1 - List of Mono and Stereo 45s - 1970 Click this link for: http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6627&PN=1 - List of Mono and Stereo 45s - 1971 Click this link for: http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6628&PN=1 - List of Mono and Stereo 45s - 1972 Click this link for: http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6637&PN=1 - List of Mono and Stereo 45s - 1973 Click this link for: http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6641&PN=1&TPN=1 - List of Mono and Stereo 45s - 1974 Click this link for: http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/edit_post.asp?PID=32865&PN=1&TPN=1 - List of Mono and Stereo 45s - 1975 |
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Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 23 January 2012 at 11:57pm
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Clique, The - "I'll Hold out My Hand" (stereo)
Davis, Sammy, Jr. - "I've Gotta Be Me" (mono) Illusion, The - "Did You See Her Eyes" (mono) Joplin, Janis - "Kozmic Blues" (mono) Peter, Paul & Mary - "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (mono) Warwick, Dionne - "The April Fools" (mono) |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 24 January 2012 at 12:26am
| Thanks very much for the info, Yah Shure! The master list has been updated accordingly. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 24 January 2012 at 12:42am
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Another boffo, bang-up job, Todd!
I have a copy of the Moms Mabley 45, too, and will report my findings... when I remember exactly which category I filed it under. :) |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 24 January 2012 at 5:37am
| Very impressive list, Todd! Just one thing that jumped out at me...The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde should be listed under "G" (Randolph was his middle name), also it's Sounde (with an "e" at the end). |
Posted By: jono
Date Posted: 24 January 2012 at 9:26am
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Todd - Great job! Thanks for all the research you've done.
I do have a copy of the Moms Mabley song "Abraham, Martin And John" (Mercury 72935) and it is mono. Jon O. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 24 January 2012 at 9:54am
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One more:
Valli, Frankie - "The Girl I'll Never Know (Angels Never Fly This Low)" (mono) Jon: Thanks for "calling off" the Moms search. :) |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 24 January 2012 at 4:13pm
| Great work! Looking forward to the 1970-1974 lists when you get to them. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 25 January 2012 at 1:43am
| Thanks so much, Todd! I can't even tell you how much this helps me in my collecting. |
Posted By: Gary Mack
Date Posted: 25 January 2012 at 6:24am
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Some stock copies of Gitarzan were stereo - I have one.
GM |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 25 January 2012 at 9:52am
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Thanks very much for the feedback and updates, gentlemen.
Does anyone have mono/stereo info for the remaining Top 40 singles on the list that still need mix notations? |
Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 25 January 2012 at 9:58am
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Gary: is your stereo stock copy the same as the mono version, or the stereo
LP version? ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: Gary Mack
Date Posted: 25 January 2012 at 10:33am
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My Monument vinyl stereo 45 is the same as the mono single (no crowd overdub at the beginning). It runs 3:06 and the dead wax shows H2W-2612-S. I bought it in Phoenix not long after the song dropped off the charts.
GM |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 25 January 2012 at 8:02pm
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I too have the stereo stock 45 of Gitarzan. It utilizes the stamper from the stereo side of the mono/stereo promo 45 (of course, I've also had a promo 45 of the song where it was mono and had the regular B side on it). ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 25 January 2012 at 10:04pm
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Make it three votes for the stereo stock "Guitarzan" (although the B-side on my copy - "Bagpipes-That's My Bag" - is mono.)
---------- Here's another update: Sherman, Bobby - "Little Woman" (mono and stereo) I have two stock copies of "Little Woman": the common Columbia-pressed stereo stock with "One Too Many Mornings" on the B-side, and a Shelley Products-pressed http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/YahShure/BobbySherman-LittleWoman.jpg - mono stock copy . The mono pressing is a bit odd: the label copy, which uses the Columbia fonts (save for the star on the right side) lists the matrix number as ZTS-144418; however, the etched matrix number is ZTS-144763. The Shelley pressing also has a different B-side: the Sherman-penned "Love," which has the same star on the label as the A-side. The label copy that remains unchanged from the A-side (artist name, production credits, "MMS-121") is still in the same Columbia fonts, but Shelley's own fonts were used for the changed info (the time, title, writer/publisher credit and matrix number.) The B-side's listed and etched matrix number is unique in its own way: "SPB". I suspect it stands for "Shelley Products B." This was probably an effort to rack up some songwriter royalties for the Sherman Bobby rather than the Dylan one. |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 26 January 2012 at 6:17am
all mono |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 26 January 2012 at 6:23am
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Many thanks, Hykker!
And keep those updates coming, gang! There's now only a half dozen titles left without mono/stereo notations for 1969. |
Posted By: vanmeter
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 7:12am
I have 2 45s of "Sunday Mornin'"; one mono, one stereo, and the stereo isn't marked as such. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:35pm
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Thanks, vanmeter.
Also, further research now seems to indicate that commercial 45 pressings of Kenny Rogers and the First Edition's "Reuben James" was issued in mono and stereo. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 6:40pm
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Todd, I currently don't own any "Don't Touch Me" 45, or a stock for "The
Beginning Of My End" (just a promo), but here are the other four 1969 stragglers: -Booker T. & MG's-Mrs. Robinson: (mono; L & A 3:38) -Isaac Hayes-By The Time I Get To Phoenix: (mono; L 6:45; A 6:46) -The Way It Used To Be: (mono; L & A 3:09) -Vogues-No, Not Much (mono; L 2:45; A 3:19) As for '68, my stock 45 of "Cycles" is currently mis-filed, and I currently only own a reprint 45 for "Brown Eyed Woman", so I'll just wait for your '71 stragglers, kind sir. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 7:42pm
| Got 'em. Thank you very much, Jim! |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 29 January 2012 at 3:44pm
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Bettye Swann/ Don't Touch Me is in mono. Both of the 45 originals of "Reuben James" I have had have been mono and were Columbia pressings. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 29 January 2012 at 5:09pm
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Thanks very much, KentT!
Now all we need is a mono/stereo confirmation for the Unifics' "The Beginning of My End" commercial 45 and we'll have officially completed the 1969 list! |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 29 January 2012 at 6:31pm
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Don't have the Unifics single, otherwise you would have had information. If I find one, I'll post info. I do a lot of crate digging. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 30 January 2012 at 7:03pm
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The Beginning Of My End is Stereo. My copy is Styrene. Nice song, bought this one unheard since I like Soul and R&B and saw a copy. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 31 January 2012 at 6:45am
| Fantastic, KentT! That takes care of 1969! |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 03 February 2012 at 12:45pm
| Todd, just a quick heads up: You now have "Quentin's Theme" listed under both "Grean" (where it belongs) and under "Randolph"...unless you want it listed twice, then disregard this message. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 03 February 2012 at 1:35pm
| No, it should only be listed once. Thanks for the heads-up, Paul. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 31 March 2012 at 6:06pm
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todd...my commercial 45 for the rascals song "a ray of
hope" issued as atlantic 2584 sounds like it's in mono....can any others that have this 45 confirm my findings....the run out groove etching is "A 15273 3" ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 31 March 2012 at 9:47pm
| I figure it's certainly possible there could've been both mono and stereo 45 pressings of "A Ray of Hope". If you want a second opinion, Ed, feel free to e-mail me a dub of your 45 and I'll take a listen. |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 01 April 2012 at 2:15pm
| My U.S. commercial 45 of "A Ray Of Hope" is also mono. There's a matrix number on the label "A-15273-MO", and I gather that the "MO" is intended to indicate mono. My copy is a "cut-out" (with a drill-hole through the label), which means it may well be a later pressing. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 01 April 2012 at 4:52pm
| Thanks, Ed and Paul, for the info. I've gone back and updated the master list accordingly to show that commercial 45 copies of "A Ray of Hope" were issued in both mono and stereo. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 01 April 2012 at 7:11pm
Paul, the "-MO" suffix on the label stands for Monarch Records, the Los Angeles pressing plant which, for decades, manufactured the Atlantic group's 45s for much of the west coast and southwest US. http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/YahShure/Rascals-RayOfHopeAstock.jpg - My mono stock copy is also a Monarch pressing, with a matrix number of A-15273 - 21 (the second "2" is much lighter than the other digits and was probably added later than the others. Monarch's stock 45s were usually styrene, rather than vinyl. Drill-holed cut-outs were just as likely to be first pressings as later ones if the net result was an unsold 45 at retail. It was one thing for a mom and pop shop to have bought too many of a particular title; the real fun was when a major rack jobber or distributor significantly overestimated how big a given record was going to be. The distributor I worked for at the time thought Kenny Rogers' "Daytime Friends" was going to be a surefire top-5 hit like its predecessor, "Lucille" and bought stock accordingly. I can only imagine how many of those copies were returned and ended up as cut-outs. A lot of them likely never made it out of the distributor's warehouse and into the stores before being shippped back to United Artists. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 01 April 2012 at 8:28pm
Todd, with all the recent 1969 mono 45 findings for "A Ray Of Hope", I just went and pulled/double-checked my 45 copy, assuming I was the one who gave you the original "stereo 45" finding. But I hadn't - it turns out I'd only "filled in a few stragglers" for your '68 & '69 project years (as evidenced earlier in this thread), before jumping in "full force" with you to co-document 1970-71-72-73-74 & 75. My "A Ray Of Hope" 45 says "mono" right on the Post-It note I stick on all my 45s, containing song particulars (deadwax A-15273 - 5). So I don't know where you initially obtained your "stereo stock 45" info for this song, but you may want to go over/double-check your original notes for it. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 01 April 2012 at 8:53pm
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Jim:
For the Rascals/Young Rascals 45s, I consulted an outstanding website put together by a very dedicated Rascals aficionado who meticulously documents every one of the band's single and album releases: http://www.therascalsarchives.com/history/music.htm - The Rascals Archives I re-checked it and found that he reports "A Ray of Hope" as being issued in mono with no mention of any stereo pressings. Therefore, in light of all the overwhelming evidence being brought forward here that supports this, I am now revising the master list to show 45 pressings of "A Ray of Hope" as only appearing in mono. Thanks for the bringing this to my attention, gentlemen! |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 01 April 2012 at 9:43pm
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As was discussed earlier, some stock copies of Gitarzan by Ray Stevens were issued in stereo utilizing the stamper from the stereo side of the mono/stereo promo 45. I wonder if there might also be some stereo copies of The Chokin' Kind by Joe Simon (Sound Stage 7 SS7-2628) issued in the same way, as I picked up a mono/stereo vinyl promo of the Joe Simon 45 at a record show earlier today, where I also saw (but did not purchase) another promo copy that was mono and had the mono B side on that promo, which is how some promo copies of Gitarzan were also issued. Handwritten matrix numbers on the stereo side are S-738 and about 1/4 turn of the disc later is the number 125. The mono side of the 45 has a lot more deadwax info, handwritten on one side of the disc is S-738-1-A and directly across from it on the other side of the disc is handwritten 125, a B with a circle around it, and machine stamped MUSIC CITY. Since this 45 was on a subsidiary of Monument records, who put out the Ray Stevens 45, it seems to me it would be likely that there would have been some stereo stock copies pressed...has anyone got one to confirm? ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 06 May 2012 at 8:22pm
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All 5 copies I own of "The Chokin" Kind" on Joe Simon are mono. 3 copies are styrene pressings, 2 are on vinyl. All have the same deadwax. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: Steve Carras
Date Posted: 12 February 2013 at 5:41pm
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"Spinning Wheel" by BS&T is a case of a replaced part
(the instr.break, replaced with a shorter guitar break without the brassy jazzy part) for the 45 rpm single release. Likewise "Crimson and Clover", by James/Shondells when that retro-edited-up LP version came out in 1969. The second throbbing (for lack of a better term!!) guitar break was replaced with that trippy longer one. ------------- You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 25 November 2014 at 7:52am
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my commercial 45 for the thunderclap newman song 'something
in the air' issued as track 2656 contains the mono version on one side and the stereo version on the other.....in this 1969 mono/stereo 45 thread says the 45 was originally issued in stereo.....which was the A- side?....the mono or stereo version?.....the run out groove info on the mono side is 'A-17283-1' and on the stereo side it's 'ST-A-17283'... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 25 November 2014 at 7:57pm
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I'd like to see label scans of your stock copy, Ed.
All of the stock copies I've had were stereo and had Wilhemina on the B side. My promotional copies have all been mono, with the stock B side as well. The first time I've encountered a 45 with the song on both sides, one being mono and one being stereo, was on the 1970 reissue (promotional 45 only), Track 2769. The stock issue of Track 2769 had I See It All on the B side. ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 26 November 2014 at 6:05am
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thanks for the help guys.....after looking at the label
again more carefully, it is clearly track 2769 and NOT 2656....sorry for the confusion....now to ebay to buy the correct commercial 45!!!.....thx all!! ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 30 December 2016 at 7:32pm
OK, here's a couple for the class. We know the stereo single version of "Gitarzan" doesn't have the crowd overdub at the beginning, but does it have the canned laughter interspersed (we do know the LP version does)? (I kinda wish it had been added to the mono single.) Also, while I'm thinking about it, I'm very surprised no stock copies for the Friends of Distinction's "Grazing In The Grass" were in mono. If ever a song would pack a punch in a mono mix, that would be one. (I assume some promo copies were mono? And were they folddowns, or dedicated?) ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 30 December 2016 at 11:55pm
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The stereo 45 version of Gitarzan can be
heard [URL=https://youtu.be/zp85g7A2gyo]here[/UR L]. This is one of my posts, using audio off a stereo promo 45 I was sent once upon a time (I now have two copies of the stereo promo 45), coupled with a label scan from a mono promo 45 I used to own. ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 31 December 2016 at 1:26am
Doug, my RCA 0107 promo 45 *only* has the hit on one side of it, and it is in stereo there, just like it was on all other 45 stock/promo copies of it I've ever seen. I do agree that GITG had of the truly great intros in Top 40 hit history. And while, like you, I'd like to have heard a dedicated mono mix, that particular song was *so* hook driven, combined with tons of both energy and overall catchy-ness/commercial sound that, stereo 45 source be damned, it still came blaring through my AM radio sounding absolutely dynamite back in the day. |
Posted By: Steve Carras
Date Posted: 07 January 2017 at 3:53pm
Boy..I just got that and the Doors's "Touch Me" confused due to the words "Touch Me". Seems like, but obviosuly Don't Touch Me isn't some answer record so soon to Touch Me.. ------------- You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney. |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 20 February 2025 at 9:49am
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My US commercial 45 of The Dells' "Does Anybody Know I'm
Here" is mono. There are two 45 dubs posted on YouTube, and both are mono as well. |
Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 20 February 2025 at 1:32pm
| I've got 3 copies of 'DAKIH', Cadet 5631, #17459 and all three are mono. -Bill. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 03 March 2025 at 4:28am
| Unfortunately, I am no longer able to consult our dearly departed Jim Abbott regarding his notes for The Dells' "Does Anybody Know I'm Here". However, in light of the overwhelming evidence brought forth by Paul C and ChicagoBill here, I've edited the original post to show "Does Anybody..." as a mono 45 release. If anyone can confirm the existence of a commercial stereo 45 copy, I'll make sure to go back and re-add that notation. |