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Hykker wrote: An Imperial 45 in vinyl!! You midwest guys had it made.

Well yeah, but that only partially atones for those nice Specialty Atlantics you got in the Northeast. :) We had RCA Imperials from the early '60s through 1965. My copy of Cher's "Where Do You Go" (Imperial 66136) was the last of my RCA-pressed pink-white-and-black Imperials. Although the copy of "Bus Stop" I bought new in '66 was a Monarch styrene, I did find a used vinyl RCA pressing many years later, and it was the only one I'd ever seen on the green-red-white-black Imperial label.

The Monarchs were just as easily cue-burned as any other styrene 45s, but the high frequencies on the Shelleys seemed to sound ragged after the first play (like on "Dusty" by The Rag Dolls on Mala.) The Monarchs usually held up better than that. My copy of "Bus Stop" certainly did.

Your Vikki Carr description sounds exactly like a Shelley job (see scan added to my last post.) Their slogan could have been "If it's a 'mystery record' to you, it's sure to be a Shelley!" :)

Edited by Yah Shure