Stuff For Record Collectors

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MONO recordings died a commercial death in early 1968 in North America. Death occurred a little later in England, as there were mono White Albums issued in November 1968, and mono copies of the Yellow Submarine album shortly after that. There were also mono editions of Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones on Decca.

But in early 1968, the large North American record companies must have been pushing to stop pressing mono albums as it was simply more expensive to create two versions (eg mono and stereo) of each new album that was released. This was getting more expensive at a time when teens had finally migrated to the LP format in 1967, and were buying more albums than they ever had before. The Top 50!

Here are more than 50 LPs that were issued in Canada in MONO that will be of interest for record collectors as they are different mixes from their stereo counterparts.

Capitol
The Beach Boys - Per Sounds, Smiley Smile, Wild Honey
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, Meet The Beatles, Second Album
The Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Manfred Mann - Soul Of Mann, Mann Made Hits
Paul Jones - Privilege
Peter And Gordon - Knight In Rusty Armour, In London For Tea
Dave Clark Five - You've Got What It Takes, Everybody Knows
The Yardbirds - Little Games

Decca
The Who - Sell Out

Elektra
The Doors - first album, Strange Days (mono Canada LP not confirmed)

Reprise (Compo and Warner Brothers)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?, Axis Bold As Love

London / Deram
The Rolling Stones - Flowers, Their Satanic Majesties Request
John Mayall - Bluesbreakers, A Hard Road, Blues Crusade
Procol Harum - first self-title album on Deram
Cat Stevens - Matthew And Son, New Masters
Moody Blues - Knights In White Satin (Canada mono LP not confirmed)

Fontana / Mercury
Manfred Mann - As Is (mono)
Troggs - Love Is All Around (Canada mono LP not confirmed)

Pye
The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks (very rare in mono)

Columbia
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday, Notorious Byrd Brothers (Canada mono LP not confirmed)
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding (Canada mono LP not confirmed)
Simon And Garfunkel -Parsley,Sage,Rosemary & Thyme, Bookends (mono LP not confirmed)
Miles Davis - ESP, Miles Smiles

Epic
The Hollies - Evolution, King Midas In Reverse
Donovan - Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow

MGM / Quality
The Animals - Winds Of Change, The Twain Shall Meet (Canada LP not confirmed)
Soundtrack - Blow Up (with Herbie Hancock)

RCA
Monkees - Birds, Bees and The Monkees
Jefferson Airplane - Take Off, Surrealistic Pillow

Verve (Trans-World)
Paupers - Magic People

Verve (Quality)
The Velvet Underground - And Nico, White Light, White Heat (self titled, mono cover exists but has gold foil stereophonic sticker and stereo disc inside - mega rare)

Warner Brothers (Compo and Warner Bros.)
Grateful Dead - first album
Kensington Market - Avenue Road

Polydor
Cream - Fresh Cream (Musimart edition)

Compo/United Artists
Gord Lightfoot- Did She Mention My Name?
Easybeats - Falling Off The Edge Of The World (mono LP not confirmed)

Stone
Traffic - Reaping

[justlisteningian]

intertesting list david .....what about soul and and rb rareties...I might be going through my father in laws collection soon