Rondo-Lette

USA label. * * For (unofficial) releases use this label: Rondo-Lette (2) Rondo-lette was a companion label to Rondo (2), started in 1958 after Record Corporation of America bought the original Rondo Records of Chicago. The original mono 12-inch album series started with Rondo-lette A-1 and ran through A-40, after which it jumped to Rondo-lette 841. The 12" Rondo-lette albums used a light blue label with black print. The design was quite similar to the yellow label used for the Rondo issues. Also in 1958, in an unusual move, they released a series of stereo 10-inch LPs starting with catalog number 91. The series included more than 40 items, running to catalog numbers in the 940s, but the sales were sluggish and the series was soon abandoned in favor of the SA-41 stereo series of 12-inch LPs. In fact, many of the 10-inch albums were just six-track abridgements of the 12-inch albums.The numbering sequence for the 10-inch albums was slightly unusual, as it started with 91 and ran to 99, but rather than going to 100 after 99, went to 910. The labels on these 10-inch albums were black with silver print, and were printed on the vinyl rather than using a paper label.