45worlds Forum - View Single Post - Mono and Stereo versions of L.P.s

4th Mar 2015, 2:22 PM
	RogerFoster To ignore is human, to follow is divine. Member since Jul 2014 3084 Points	I've just inputted the "Ridin' High" L.P. by The Impressions, complete with scans, and I know this to be the Mono version of this. Funnily, after having input it I checked The Impressions U.S. discography to see how it looked and realised there was already an entry in there for "Ridin' High", so maybe I should have tagged my scans onto that? However the previously existing version of "Ridin' High" does not specify whether it is the Stereo or Mono version, though I suspect from the catalogue number of ABC 545 it is indeed the Mono as according to this ABC-Paramount discography the stereo version would be ABCS 545. Would it be possible for one of the Mods to either merge the two entries together ... or ... even better, reassign the previously existing L.P. as the Stereo version and move the two existing owners of it over to my entry. All of this has got me thinking ... for much of the 1960s (roughly 1964-69 in The U.K. from what I can work out) it was standard for there to be separate Mono and Stereo versions of L.P.s, often with significantly different recordings being used. Would it be possible to put some kind of warning into the inputting screen so that people would be discouraged from entering L.P.s from this period without specifying whether it was Mono or Stereo?