Hahaha! Doubtful. But what a wonderful topic.
Here are four of the strangest ladies I have in my collection. As far as I can tell, these are all "One-Offs"; meaning, these are the only Q8's ever put out by this company/record label/person.
Iguana - The Winds of Alamar on Quadratrak
The Marina Strings play the Neil Diamond Songbook on 20th Century Tapes
Bhen Lanzaroni on McConnell Records Ltd.
"Boogie Woogie Session" featuring Big Willie Johnson on Duo
We have discussed a few of these titles in the past. Some of them have catalog numbers that would suggest other releases but, if they exist I cannot locate any reference to them. There were a few little bits in vintage Billboard Magazines that said more titles were on the way from 20th Century, one of which being a Barry White title. However, I doubt it exists beyond that article. The Iguana tape I doubted the Q8's existence up until very recently. In all my years of collecting, this is the only one I can remember seeing. Interestingly, if you Google the address on the back of the tape, it locates to a small, suburban cul-de-sac just outside Kensington, Maryland. I believe this "record company" was headquarted literally at someone's house.
Beyond that, I have no other information to share about these tapes. Three out of Four are nice and four-corner discrete; the Big Willie tape being Quadra-Monic. Taking an educated guess, I suspect it to be a live recording session where each microphone was set up 90-degrees out of phase to the other microphones. So if something like a saxophone appears, it will appear very loud in Front Left, and at about 50% of that level in the other three channels. Drums are mostly to the rear, and bass is mostly to the front.
Here are four of the strangest ladies I have in my collection. As far as I can tell, these are all "One-Offs"; meaning, these are the only Q8's ever put out by this company/record label/person.
Iguana - The Winds of Alamar on Quadratrak
The Marina Strings play the Neil Diamond Songbook on 20th Century Tapes
Bhen Lanzaroni on McConnell Records Ltd.
"Boogie Woogie Session" featuring Big Willie Johnson on Duo
We have discussed a few of these titles in the past. Some of them have catalog numbers that would suggest other releases but, if they exist I cannot locate any reference to them. There were a few little bits in vintage Billboard Magazines that said more titles were on the way from 20th Century, one of which being a Barry White title. However, I doubt it exists beyond that article. The Iguana tape I doubted the Q8's existence up until very recently. In all my years of collecting, this is the only one I can remember seeing. Interestingly, if you Google the address on the back of the tape, it locates to a small, suburban cul-de-sac just outside Kensington, Maryland. I believe this "record company" was headquarted literally at someone's house.
Beyond that, I have no other information to share about these tapes. Three out of Four are nice and four-corner discrete; the Big Willie tape being Quadra-Monic. Taking an educated guess, I suspect it to be a live recording session where each microphone was set up 90-degrees out of phase to the other microphones. So if something like a saxophone appears, it will appear very loud in Front Left, and at about 50% of that level in the other three channels. Drums are mostly to the rear, and bass is mostly to the front.