Also in that very same March 08,75- Billboard , Jon...........they list as top 100 releases both Three Dog Night-Joy To The World, Greatest Hits,....and Joe Walsh -So What........Both indicated as being released or available as quad lps and Q8. (In fact it continues that way for a few Billboard editions).
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Any idea why ABC started with the quad logo on the cover and then moved to the color border? If I'm not mistaken, CBS did just the opposite. Most of my older Columbia and Epic releases have that gold border. Slightly newer releases have just the SQ logo.
And think of all the people who were unsatisfied with the ABC quads because they tried to play them in SQ? I know Sansui charged a royalty to use the QS logo, but were the bigwigs at ABC so cheap that they wouldn't spring for it?