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The first time you heard stereo sound ...

I vaguely remember a cheepo-label LP recording of a corny showtune that went something like....

EV-rything is getting thoroughly modern
(The bands are getting jazzier)
EV-rything is getting thorougly mod...
(The bras are getting snazzier)

This was done with the lyrics within parens panned to one channel and the main lyrics to the other.... (Quite frankly I'd always felt the whole mess should have been completely panned! :D)

Does anyone else fall victim to this memory besides me--or do I need to quarantine myself immediately that nobody else has to remember this BS....? :D

Separation was nine-tenths of the law back in the day....
 
That was the Soundtrack to the movie "Thoroughly Modern Millie" with Julie Andrews, and I think Mary tyler Moore. thoroughly junk movie. And even worse soundtrack.

1st appreciation of "STEREO" was in '67. I was 12, we were living in Hawaii (dad was in Navy), and they got a MORSE console with a BSR. My first album was CCR Green River. Wore out 3 styli on the TT playing it and all the other stuff 5 kids get and argue over playing.

KIOI in San Francisco was broadcasting "discrete stereo" as early as 1968. They would do all the "experimental" tracks (trains, planes, earthquakes recorded with transducers, etc.) on a nightly show called "Excursions in Stereo". The stuff they played was really out of the norm for a pre-teen(maybe I was a geek...who knows), but it was ok with my parents, as it wasn't "junk that kids play and you can't undertand".

They still listen to Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, etc.... and I still listen to "JUNK". :D
 
Hello from the UK and a new member.
My first taste of stereo was through a pair of Sony headphones hooked up to a shiny silver fronted, wooden clad Sony (I think) receiver. It was 1973, I was 9, playing in my friend Tim's house next door. My friend's dad, who was a bit of a jazz hepcat (although I didn't realise that at the time) with a fondness for stripey shirts and berets, was listening to headphones. I asked him what he was listening to. He gave me the phones and proceeded to blow my mind with Thunderbirds, the classic puppet series. I can remember to this day the sheer amazement of hearing my puppet heroes zooming around my head. That fascination with sound and the stereo image has remained with me ever since.
Sorry for rambling on, but funnily enough it was that very evocative memory that led me to this site a few days ago, researching vintage receivers of the kind I remembered so clearly.
 
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