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Sing With Young America

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Sing With Young America --- 1964

When Word Records, Inc. began issuing stereo albums in 1959, they started a completely new series (WST-8000) with no corresponding catalog numbers between the mono (W-3000) and stereo albums. While most major record labels adopted and abandoned this confusing system within a year, Word kept its mono and stereo numerations separate until 1965. By this point, there were so many mono-only albums that the stereo series had fallen more than one hundred numbers behind. When Word Records, Inc. finally switched to a corresponding catalog system, a large group of numbers in the 8000 series were never assigned. Word's original stereo labels were red with silver print; these were later changed to black so as to match the mono releases. In the early-to-mid 1960s, Word reissued many of their early mono-only releases in rechanneled stereo (rechanneled discs are classified as "Dual Channel" instead of "stereophonic").