What I considered my first good guitar was an Ovation Custom Legend around 1979. Looked like this:
https://reverb.com/item/26336661-ova...-custom-legend
It had a carved bridge and TR cover. The pickup was "stereo", strings 1,3,5 went to one side and 2,4,6 went to the other side.
The funniest thing I remember was, I had a payment book with little pieces of paper to send with $30 or $35 a month to pay it off.