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Sweet. Anyone remember going into a store and seeing that many Q8's? There was a store I went into off of Times Square once that had a huge Q8 case filled with them. I can't remember the name of the store, but they went out of business years ago. I think the chain was bought by Sam Goody.

It was called King Karol Records. They had a few stores including their main store on 42nd street as well as the one in times square that you mentioned. I purchased many quad tapes there myself as well as Wally's Tape World on the west side.
 
It was called King Karol Records. They had a few stores including their main store on 42nd street as well as the one in times square that you mentioned. I purchased many quad tapes there myself as well as Wally's Tape World on the west side.


That was it! King Karol Records. Wow. I hadn't thought about them for years. A great store. They had shelves of albums all stacked way up high with a ladder to access them (employees only of course), and I remember scanning the spines from far away looking for the occasional COLUMBIA QUADRAPHONIC at the bottom instead of COLUMBIA, then asking if I could go up and see which one it was. Of course, that's back when I could see small things from a distance. :smokin
 
Nobody's posted to this thread in a while, my collection has grown in great leaps since my last post. I've crossed the 200 mark!

RCA:
Belafonte, Harry - Live at Carnegie Hall
Denver, John - Poems, Prayers & Promises
Friends of Distinction - Love Can Make it Easier
Guess Who, The - Wheatfield Soul
- Canned Wheat
- American Woman
- Share the Land
- Artificial Paradise
- Rockin'
- Best Of (Volume 1)
- Best Of (Volume 2)
- Road Food
- #10
- Flavours
- Power in the Music
Hair - Original Cast Soundtrack
Jefferson Airplane - Worst Of
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Jefferson Starship - Dragon Fly
Jennings, Waylon - Lonesome, On'ry & Mean
Mancini, Henry - Best Of
Mancini, Henry - Best Of (Volume 2)
Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Nilsson - Duit on Mon Dei
Nilsson - Pussy Cats
Nilsson - Sandman
Philadelphia Orchestra - Love Story
Presley, Elvis - From Elvis in Memphis
- On Stage, 1970
- That's The Way It Is
- Live at Madison Square Garden
- Live Aloha from Hawaii (Tape 1&2)
- Live on Stage in Memphis
- Promised Land
- Today
Pure Prairie League - Two Lane Highway
Pure Prairie League - If The Shoe Fits
Reed, Jerry - The Uptown Poker Club
Youngbloods, The - Best Of

Columbia / Epic:
The Spectacular Sound of 4-Channel: ROCK!
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Anderson, Lynn - Rose Garden
Argent - In Deep
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits
Blood, Sweat & Tears - New City
Buddy Miles Express - Booger Bear
Cash, Johnny - Live at San Quentin
Chase - Self Titled
Chicago - IX (Greatest Hits)
Company - Original Broadway Cast Recording
Diamond, Neil - Serenade
Derringer, Rick - All American Boy
Dylan, Bob - Nashville Skyline
Earth, Wind & Fire - That’s the Way of the World
Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out at Night
Edgar Winter Group - Shock Treatment
Essex, David - Rock On
Joplin, Janis - Pearl
Keating, John - Space Experience
Loggins & Messina - Self Titled
Loggins & Messina - Full Sail
MFSB - Love is the Message
Poco - Deliverin’
Price, Ray - For the Good Times
Raiders, The - Indian Reservation
Rich, Charlie - Behind Closed Doors
Santana - Abraxas
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
Simon, Paul - Self Titled
Simon, Paul - There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Simon, Paul - Still Crazy After all these Years
Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
Sly & the Family Stone - Small Talk
Stevens, Ray - Greatest Hits
Streisand, Barbra - The Way we Were & All in Love is Fair
Super Session - Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills
Ten Years After - A Space in Time
West, Bruce & Laing - Why Doncha
West, Bruce & Laing - Whatever Turns You On

GRT:
B. B. King - Friends
Berry, Chuck - The London Sessions
Blackbyrds - Flying Start
Clark, Roy - Superpicker
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Gold
Croce, Jim - You Don't Mess Around with Jim
- Life & Times
- I Got a Name
- Photographs & Memories (Greatest Hits)
Four Tops, The - Keeper of the Castle
Four Tops, The - Main Street People
Grass Roots, The - 16 Greatest Hits
GRT Quad Sampler
Walsh, Joe - The Smoker you Drink, The Player you Get
Hooker, John Lee - Never Get Out of these Blues Alive
Light, Enoch - Persuasive Percussion
Love Story (Original Movie Soundtrack)
Mountain - Best Of
Ohio Players - Ecstasy
Randolph, Boots - Homer Louis Randolph III
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Best Of
Ray Charles Singers - Love Me with All Your Heart
Rufus - Rags to Rufus
Rufus - Rufusized
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Three Dog Night - Hard Labor
- Coming Down Your Way
Turrentine, Stanley - Pieces of Dreams

Arista:
Brecker Brothers Band, The - Back to Back
Carmen, Eric - Self Titled
Godspell Musical Soundtrack
Manchester, Melissa - Melissa
Manchester, Melissa - Better Days & Happy Endings
Manilow, Barry - II
Manilow, Barry - Tryin’ to Get the Feeling
Orlando, Tony & Dawn - Greatest Hits
Outlaws, The - Lady in Waiting

Mercury:
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - I
- II
- Not Fragile
- Four Wheel Drive
- Head On
Ohio Players - Fire
- Honey


Asylum/Elektra:
Bread - Best Of
Browne, Jackson - Late for the Sky
Doors, The - Best Of
Eagles - On the Border
Eagles - One of these Nights
Mitchell, Joni - Court & Spark
Mitchell, Joni - Hissing of Summer Lawns
Orlando, Tony & Dawn - He Don’t Love You Like I Love You
Simon, Carly - No Secrets
Simon, Carly - Best Of
Souther, Hillman, Furay Band, The - Self Titled
Souther, Hillman, Furay Band, The - Trouble in Paradise
Stardrive with Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trots

Project 3:
Light, Enoch - Four Channel Demonstration
- Spaced Out
- Charge!
- Big Hit Movie Themes
- with the Brass Menagerie '73
- Beatle Classics
- The Brass Menagerie Volume 1
- The Brass Menagerie Volume 2
- Extra! The World’s Greatest Jazz Band

Warner Bros. / Reprise:
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love
America - Hearts
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Doobie Brothers, The - The Captain & Me
Doobie Brothers, The - Toulouse Street
Doobie Brothers, The - What Were Once Vices are Now Habits
Lightfoot, Gordon - Cold on the Shoulder
Lightfoot, Gordon - Sundown
Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl

Apple/Capitol/Harvest:
Babe Ruth - Self Titled
Grand Funk Railroad - All the Girls of the World, Beware!
Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin' On
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Lennon, John - Imagine
Lennon, John - Walls & Bridges
John Keating Incorporated - Hits in Hi-Fi
Joplin, Scott - Palm Leaf Rag
McCartney, Paul & Wings - Band on the Run
McCartney, Paul & Wings - Venus & Mars
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Reddy, Helen - Long Hard Climb
Righteous Brothers - Give It to the People
San Fernando Brass - New Brass Sound of the Hits
Sounds of the 70’s Orchestra - Songs of the Seventies
Starr, Ringo - Goodnight Vienna
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle
Witherspoon, Jimmy - Love is a Five Letter Word

A&M/Ode:
Alpert, Herb & The Tijuana Brass - Greatest Hits
Bacharach, Burt - Reach Out
Baez, Joan - Diamonds & Rust
Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
Carpenters, The - The Singles 1969-1973
Carpenters, The - Now &Then
Carpenters, The - Self Titled
Cocker, Joe - Joe Cocker!
Cocker, Joe - With a Little Help from my Friends
Humble Pie - Smokin’
Jones, Quincy – Body Heat
Jones, Quincy - Mellow Madness
King, Carole - Tapestry
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - It’ll Shine When it Shines
Preston, Billy - Music is my Life
Stevens, Cat - Catch Bull at Four
Stevens, Cat - Greatest Hits

United Artists / Liberty:
Bassey, Shirley – Carnegie Hall Concert (Tape 1&2)
Byrd, Donald - Street Lady
Fiddler on the Roof Original Movie Soundtrack (Tape 1&2)
Live & Let Die Original Movie Soundtrack
Turner, Tina & Ike - Live at Carnegie Hall (Tape 1&2)
Ventures, The - Hawaii Five-O


Misc. (Ampex/Stax/Enterprise):
Big Band Moog
Country Joe & The Fish - Greatest Hits
Franklin, Aretha - Best Of
Franklin, Aretha - Live at the Fillmore West
Hayes, Isaac - "Shaft" Movie Soundtrack (Tape 1&2)
Hayes, Isaac - Joy
Hayes, Isaac - Live at the Sahara Tahoe (Tape 1)
Hayes, Isaac -Tough Guys Movie Soundtrack
Jones, Tom - The Body and Soul of
Knight, Gladys & The Pips - Imagination
O’Sullivan, Gilbert - Back to Front
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

Total : 221 Cartridges
 
I'm new to the forum. So far I have a small collection of 9 tapes
 

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Welcome "Arnold Layne"! Nice set of tapes there. The Canadian Capital sampler is very rare, and one of the best sounding Q8's I've ever listened to. (The EMI PF's are not too shabby either! :D)
 
It's a great sampler! :smokin

Actually, "Arnold" bought that Q8 from me back in November 2002! (eBay item 921238231) :eek::eek::eek:

Here's the scan I used in the eBay ad:
 

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Any Colour You Like is an interesting choice for a sampler. Reminds me of the juke box in the dining hall at college, it would play a random track every so many minutes, and there was a 45 of that in there. It was kind of strange to have that start out of nowhere while eating.
 
Cool Sampler!! I wish more of those had come out - I think they would have HELPED Quad sales! Rather than buying multiple tapes just to get one hit song, you buy one tape with multiple hit songs. It only makes sense.
 
What's hard to understand is why split a song in a demo tape... just rearrange to fit!
 
It's a great sampler! :smokin

Actually, "Arnold" bought that Q8 from me back in November 2002! (eBay item 921238231) :eek::eek::eek:

Here's the scan I used in the eBay ad:

Thanks for putting it up for sale :) I enjoy that cart quite a bit. Though my favorite is the WYWH quad. The discrete mix is just wonderful. My tape is a bit worn out, the high frequencies are practically gone on the first program. Trying to find a better copy.
 
I know I only have a handful, but I wanna show them off anyway. Just getting into Q8.


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CAPITOL:

1. Mandingo - "Mandingo III" Q8W 6420

COLUMBIA:

2. Garfunkel - "Angel Clare" CAQ 31474
3. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - "Climb Every Mountain" MAQ 30647

LONDON/OVATION:

4. Paul Horn & The Concert Ensemble Q8. 109
5. The Quadraphonic World Of Broadway LEQ. 66001
6. Ronnie Aldrich - "Top Of The World/Two Pianos" LQN 77203

RCA/NIMBUS 9:

7. The Guess Who - "Best Of Volume II" APT1-0269
8. The Guess Who - "Flavours" APT1-0636
9. Danny Davis' Nashville Brass - "Bluegrass Country" APT1-0565
10. Harry Belafonte - "Belafonte At Carnegie Hall" OQ8-5002

My hunt continues, Cheers!
 
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I just counted 300 with about 15 doubles. They all get played regularly.
Most are Canadian releases if that means anything. I'll have to get around to listing them.

Still looking for a few more!
 
I've only got a handful, but I wanna show them off anyway. Just getting into the 8-Track side of Quadraphonic.

CAPITOL:

1. Mandingo - "Mandingo III" QAW 6420

COLUMBIA:

2. Garfunkel - "Angel Clare" CAQ 31474
3. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - "Climb Every Mountain" MAQ 30647
4. Percy Faith - "Black Magic Woman" CAQ 30800

LONDON/OVATION:

5. Paul Horn & The Concert Ensemble Q8. 109
6. The Quadraphonic World Of Broadway LEQ. 66001
7. Ronnie Aldrich/Two Pianos - "Top Of The World" LQN L 77203

RCA/NIMBUS 9:

8. Danny Davis' Nashville Brass - "Bluegrass Country" APT1-0565
9. The Guess Who - "The Best Of, Volume II" APT1-0269
10. The Guess Who - "Flavours" APT1-0636
11. Harry Belafonte - "Belafonte At Carnegie Hall" OQ8-5002

I have replaced/reinforced every splice and foam pressure pad to ensure healthy lives. Wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that I killed a Quad 8.
 

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Here's where a good chunk of my paychecks went from '73 - '76. Q8 heaven.

Linda

Atlantic/Embryo
Mann, Herbie - Push, Push
- Hold On, I'm Comin'
Modern Jazz Quartet - Plastic Dreams
Santamaria, Mongo - At Montreaux

RCA:
Bennett, Robert Russell - Rogers: Victory at Sea Vol 1
Creach, Papa John
Denver, John - Poems, Prayers & Promises
Fiddler on the Roof
Guess Who, The - Rockin'
- Best Of (Volume 1)
Hirt, Al-Best of
Hot Tuna
- Electric
- Burgers
Jefferson Airplane - Worst Of
- Bark
- Volunteers
Kantner, Paul & Grace Slick - Sunfighter
Mancini, Henry - Best Of
- Brass on Ivory
Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Ormandy, Eugene & Philadelphia - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
- Copland: Appalachian Spring/Billy the Kid
Rich, Buddy-A Different Drummer
- Live in London

Columbia / Epic:
Argent - In Deep
Azteca
Beck, Jeff Group
- Rough & Ready
- Beck, Bogert & Appice
Bernstein, Leonard - Mass
- Haydn: Concert in Time of War
- Strauss, R: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Biggs, E. Power - Bach Organ Favorites, Vol 5
Blood, Sweat & Tears - (2)
- Greatest Hits
Blue Oyster Cult
- Tyranny & Mutation
- Secret Treaties
Boulez, Pierre - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
- Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
Buddy Miles Express - Booger Bear
-Chapter VII
Carlos, Wendy - Switched-On Bach
Chase
-Pure Music
Chicago - X
Derringer, Rick - All American Boy
Earth, Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes
- Head to the Sky
- That's the Way of the World
Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out at Night
- Shock Treatment
Garfunkel, Art - Angel Clare
Hancock, Herbie - Sextant
- Head Hunters
Joplin, Janis - Pearl
Keating, John - Space Experience
Lewis, Ramsey - Upendo Ni Pamoja
Loggins & Messina
- Full Sail
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
- Between Nothingness & Eternity
Mason, Dave - It's Like You Never Left
MFSB - Love is the Message
Michaels, Lee - Nice Day for Something
Minnelli, Liza - the Singer
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Panama Red
Partch, Harry - World of
O' Jays - Ship Ahoy
Ormandy, Eugene - Tchaikovsky: 1812
Billy Paul - 360 Degrees
- Live in Europe
- War of the Gods
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Poco - Deliverin’
- Crazy Eyes
- Seven
Raiders, The - Indian Reservation
Redbone - Message from a Drum
Santana - Abraxas
- III
- & Buddy Miles Live
- Caravanserai
- Love, Devotion & Surrender w/John McLaughlin
- Welcome
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon, Paul
- There Goes Rhymin' Simon
-Still Crazy After All These Years
Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Streisand, Barbra - Funny Girl
-Stoney End
-Barbra Joan Streisand
-Live Concert at the Forum
-The Way We Were
-Lazy Afternoon
Super Session - Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills
Subotnick, Morton - Touch
- Sidewinder
Ten Years After - A Space in Time
Various - Bach's Greatest Hits
- Beethoven's Greatest Hits
- Haydn's Greatest Hits
- Mozart's Greatest Hits
- Strauss' Greatest Hits
- Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits
West, Bruce & Laing - Why Doncha
- Whatever Turns You On
- Alive & Kicking
Winter, Johnny - Still Alive & Well
- John Dawson Winter III
- Saints & Sinners

CTI/Kudu:
Deodato - Prelude
- 2
- & Airto in Concert
Hammond, Johnny - Higher Ground
Turrentine, Stanley - Don't Mess With Mr. T
Washington Jr, Grover - Soul Box

GRT:
Croce, Jim - You Don't Mess Around with Jim
- Life & Times
- I Got a Name
Grass Roots, The - 16 Greatest Hits
GRT Quad Sampler
Jamal, Ahmad - Heat Wave
James, Tommy & Shondells - Greatest Hits
Mountain - Best Of
Ohio Players - Honey
Purim, Flora - Stories to Tell
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Best Of
- Movie Album
Mountain - Best of
Rufus - Rags to Rufus
Severinsen, Doc - Fever
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

Mercury:
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Four Wheel Drive
Kraftwerk-Autobahn
Ohio Players - Honey


Asylum/Elektra:
Bread - Best Of
Collins, Judy - Colors of the Day - Best of
Doors, The - Best Of
Mitchell, Joni - Hissing of Summer Lawns
Simon, Carly - Best Of
- No Secrets
Stardrive with Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot

Warner Bros. / Reprise:
Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl
James Taylor - One Man Dog
Zappa/Mothers - Overnite Sensation

Apple/Capitol/Harvest:
Babe Ruth
Burdon, Eric - Sun Secrets
Lennon, John - Imagine
McCartney, Paul & Wings - Band on the Run
Reddy, Helen - Long Hard Climb
- Free & Easy
- I AM WOMAN!
- Love Song for Jeffrey
Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle

A&M/Ode:
Alpert, Herb & The Tijuana Brass - Greatest Hits
- Whipped Cream
Bacharach, Burt - Reach Out
- Make it Easy on Yourself
Baez, Joan - Come from the Shadows
Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
Carpenters
- Now &Then
- Close to You
- Horizon
- A Song for You
Cocker, Joe - Joe Cocker! (1969)
- Joe Cocker (1973) w/ High Time We Went
- With a Little Help from my Friends
Humble Pie - Smokin’
Jones, Quincy – Walking in Space
- You've Got it Bad Girl
King, Carole - Tapestry
- Music
-Rhymes & Reasons
-Fantasy
Mendes, Sergio & Brazil '66 - Greatest Hits
Montgomery, Wes - Greatest Hits
Stevens, Cat - Catch Bull at Four
- Teaser & Firecat
- Foreigner
- Tea for the Tillerman
Tommy (orchestral)
Wakeman, Rick - Six Wives of Henry VIII

Sire:
Focus - Moving Waves
- Live at the Rainbow

United Artists / Liberty:
Byrd, Donald - Street Lady
- Black Byrd
Canned Heat - Future Blues
Buddy Rich - Best of
War - Deliver the Word
- the World is a Ghetto

Stax/Enterprise:
Hayes, Isaac - Joy
- Tough Guys

Groove Merchant:
Rich, Buddy - Roar of '74

Family Prod:
Mama Lion

London
Open Circuit - Claude Denjean
Hayward, Justin & John Lodge - Blue Jays
Moody Blues - Days of Future Past
- To Our Children's Children's Children
- On the Threshold of a Dream
- A Question of Balance
- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
- Seventh Sojurn
Savoy Brown - Jack the Toad
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

Vanguard:
Baez, Joan - Hits, Greatest & Others
Country Joe & the Fish - Greatest Hits

Ovation:
Koloc, Bonnie
Horn, Paul & Ensemble
Schory, Dick - In Concert
- Movin' On

220 Total
 
No Bloody Way!! Quad Linda: Do you REALLY have a copy of Canned Heat's Future Blues? Please post a pic! After many discussions around here, we were almost ready to declare that one 'vapourware' as nobody's ever seen a copy! We must have pics! And incidentally, would you lend it out to be converted??? :)
 
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