https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 24 May 2026 17:08:19 +0000 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:18:51 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3285 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3285&PID=15380&title=first-1-stereo-singles#15380 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 3285
Posted: 11 April 2008 at 3:18pm

BudB wrote: I seem to remember the Doors "Hello I Love You" as being the first #1 stereo single from that generation.

Your memory is spot-on, Bud. That was the second stereo 45 I bought, some three months after having purchased The Fireballs' "Goin' Away" on ATCO simply because it was in stereo. It only missed #1 by 78 places. :) ]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:18:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3285&PID=15380&title=first-1-stereo-singles#15380 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3285&PID=15379&title=first-1-stereo-singles#15379 Author: BudB
Subject: 3285
Posted: 11 April 2008 at 2:34pm

     A while back someone asked what the first #1 stereo single was. I can't find that message now so I'll start the topic over again. (Some of us older folks get confused with all this chit-chat stuff.)
     The first Billboard Hot 100 chart to indicate availability of stereo singles was on May 18, 1959. The #1 song was not in stereo; only the #4, #8, and #9 songs in the top 10 were stereo singles. Therefore, the first #1 song to appear on a stereo 45 single in real true stereo was "Lonely Boy" by Paul Anka on July 19, 1959. Some record stores carried stereo 45s; they were not just available to juke box operators.    
     On Febuary 28, 1960 we find the first true stereo 33 single to make #1 was "Theme From A Summer Place" by Percy Faith. (Columbia issued their stereo singles on 7" 33's and they were usually available in "Stereo/Hi-Fi" type stores.)
     Other early true stereo #1 hits: "The Three Bells" by the Browns (8/30/59) and "Why" by Frankie Avalon (1/3/60). I note true stereo because as I looked at the 8/30/59 chart, I noticed that the #3 song "Lavender Blue" by Sammy Turner was listed as stereo. To my dissappointment when I bought that stereo 45, it was re-garbaged stereo, not true!
     Hope this answers questions about the earliest stereo singles. By the way, the second generation of stereo singles started appearing around 1968. I seem to remember the Doors "Hello I Love You" as being the first #1 stereo single from that generation.     

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