Part 1: What were (and when were) the first true stereo recording
sessions for Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra?

Part 2: What were the first official releases of these stereo
recordings? (Please only include contemporary releases, not recent
"discovered" recordings.)

Part 3: What current CD includes these original stereo recordings?

Thanks!

Stephen

http://www.elvisrecordings.com/

Studio Session for RCA
RCA Studio B
Nashville, Tennessee
March 20-21, 1960
L2WB0083-03  Stuck on You  2:20 March 21   
	


http://www.answers.com/topic/1960-in-music

April 4 1960- RCA Victor Records announces that it will release all
pop singles in mono and stereo simultaneously, the first record
company to do so. Elvis Presley's single, "Stuck on You," is RCA's
first mono/stereo release.

http://www.history-of-rock.com/elvis_presleytwo.htm
After his release from the Army in March 1960, he recorded his first
stereo record, "Stuck On You"

http://www.planeteria.net/home/BAAS/High_Note/hn_articles/hn24_01.html

Frank Sinatra - Where Are You

This is Frank Sinatra's first stereo recording. The year was 1957 and
Gordon Jenkins style fit all the ballad and torch selections
perfectly. Of particular note, besides the title song is " There's No
You " - This tune is a little known gem that gets better each time you
listen to it. The Capitol Years (3 CD's) is another great collection
that you've got to own.

http://www.19.5degs.com/album/where_are_you/7206

"Where Are You?" is not only Sinatra's first album recorded in stereo,
it is actually something of a change of pace for the singer since it
was the first album he recorded at Capitol with a producer other than
Nelson Riddle, beginning a successful collaboration with
arranger/conductor Gordon Jenkins. The key difference between the two
producers was that Jenkins tended towards the classical touch of lush
string-dominated arrangements in providing the proper touch of
melancholy for this collection of torch songs. The result is not the
stark sadness of earlier Sinatra collections of saloon songs (e.g.,
"In the Wee Small Hours"), but more an overwhelming sense of sadness.
Ten years later he would win the Grammy for producing another
essential Sinatra album, "September of My Years."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005JM0/002-5936121-7440836?v=glance