Quad 8-Track Sleeve Gallery
This page contains scans of the many generic
label-specific Quadraphonic cardboard sleeves that came with Quad 8-Track
tapes. Some labels such as Warner Brothers, and tape manufacturers like
AMPEX incuded the album graphics on their sleeves. These are not shown here.
This page is only a gallery for the non title-specific sleeve.
Many collectors consider a quad 8 collection
incomplete if they do not have the proper sleeve for each of their tapes!
A&M RECORDS
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These blue Q8 sleeves from A&M resembled the graphics on many of
their LPs.
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Apple Records
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This is the original green Apple "Quadrasonic-eight" sleeve used for
the original release of John Lennon's IMAGINE, which has a lime
green shell. This was the only release on Apple to use this green
sleeve.
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This gold sleeve was used on all Apple Quad 8 Tracks, including
later editions of the IMAGINE Q8. These Q8's were all of the purple
Capitol variety. (Announced but unreleased titles included the "Ringo"
album and Yoko Ono's "Fly")
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ASYLUM RECORDS
Most of Asylum's Q8's, like their "sister label" Elektra, came in
these orange sleeves. Note the slightly different "Q8" logo on these
as opposed to the orange Elektra sleeves. Carts in these sleeves
were day-glow orange, with yellow labels. Real attention getters!
The later issues were in the purple sleeve/purple cart combination
and shared the markings with Elektra, as shown below in the Elektra
section.
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CAPTIOL RECORDS
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This is the original green Capitol Q8 sleeve. It was used
primarily on demo cartridges and on the early sampler tapes from
artists like the "Sounds of the Seventies Orchestra". Like the Apple
Imagine tape in the green sleeve, the Q8's in these sleeves were
lime green!
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This gold sleeve was used on all of the major Capitol popular
releases, and the tapes found in these sleeves are in the familiar
purple shells, made by "audiopak"
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CBS RECORDS
Much like the COLUMBIA sleeves,
this gold sleeve was used for tapes sold outside of the USA
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COLUMBIA RECORDS
One of the most familiar sleeves to adorn the Q8 section of a '70s
record store, Columbia issues a huge number of Q8s, dwarfing all
other manufacturers. Columbia tapes found today will still sound
amazing, if found in good condition.
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ELEKTRA
RECORDS
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Most of Elektra Q8's, like their "sister label" Asylum, came in
these orange sleeves. Note the slightly different "Q8" logo on these
as opposed to the orange Asylum sleeves. Carts in these sleeves were
day-glow orange, with yellow labels. Real attention getters! The
later issues were in the purple sleeve/purple cart combination and
shared the markings with Asylum, as shown below
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This later dark purple sleeve came on the last releases from
Elektra and Asylum. They were made to match the purple audiopak
cartridges.
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EPIC RECORDS
Since EPIC is a subsidiary label
of the Columbia "group", their sleeve was identical to the Columbia
and CBS sleeves.
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GRT MANUFACTURED TAPES
Many labels used GRT to produce their Q8 tapes, including ABC,
Arista, and Fantasy. These carts were blue, and sold in either the
sleeve shown above, or a plain blue sleeve with no quad markings at
all (not shown)
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ODE RECORDS
Carole King albums were released
by ODE on Q8. The London Symphony Orchestra double tape was also
released on Q8 by ODE, and comes in a specially designed box.
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PROJECT-3 RECORDS
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Project-3 released some spectacular instrumental quad 8 track tapes.
This sleeve is the more common issue.
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Here is an example of another version of the Project-3 Q8 sleeve.
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MORE TO COME!
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Last modified on 3/14/2005
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