Interestingly enough, their ABC album Straight Shooter (1972) was recorded at "Quadrafonic Sound Studios" in Nashville.
maybe its a stealth Quad!?
Interestingly enough, their ABC album Straight Shooter (1972) was recorded at "Quadrafonic Sound Studios" in Nashville.
Long forgotten this one, but as it is generally accepted to be single-inventory QS it does belong on the list, a #56 dud following the #20 hit album. I never once took out my copy for a play. Why would I?
I wouldn’t include it. Why wait five releases after the first gold record? Following the #20 James Gang Rides Again Atco skipped Thirds (#27) for no obvious reason, and two more perfectly good candidates — Straight Shooter and Passin’ Thru. By 1973’s Bang their chart peak was down to #122. The album finally settled on for the band’s quad debut, Miami, sputtered and died at #97. So this belongs more on the unexplained quad mysteries list.
If anything, it’s a double mystery as they moved to Atco from ABC in 1972. Record companies only grab successful acts from other labels. By definition, they’ve already proven they can sell records. The usual custom, at least at CBS, was to welcome the newly signed act with a quad version of their first release on the new label. Examples include first CBS releases by Herbie Hancock (Sextant) and Tower of Power (Ain’t Nothin’ Stoppin’ Us Now), plus Burton Cummings’ self-titled CBS debut after leaving RCA in 1975. Where was James Gang’s “welcome quad”?
Speaking of Atlantic Records, J. Geils Band is another strange case. Had they followed the “post-hit” rule, their first Gold record Bloodshot should have made its antecedent Ladies Invited a quad release, but it was passed over in favor of the #26 Nightmares. Stranger still, Bloodshot was at some point announced for quad release. Go figure.
And there’s this one we missed:
Donny Hathaway - Extension of a Man (#69) after Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway (#3).
maybe its a stealth Quad!?
The usual custom, at least at CBS, was to welcome the newly signed act with a quad version of their first release on the new label. Examples include first CBS releases by Herbie Hancock (Sextant) and Tower of Power (Ain’t Nothin’ Stoppin’ Us Now), plus Burton Cummings’ self-titled CBS debut after leaving RCA in 1975.
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