ELP Welcome back my friends... 1974 Atlantic 3LP set: strange numbering.
Disc #1 has side 1 and 6
Disc #2 has side 2 and 5
Disc #3 has side 3 and 4
Obviously it is meant for an automatic record changer.
Disc #1 has side 1 and 6
Disc #2 has side 2 and 5
Disc #3 has side 3 and 4
Obviously it is meant for an automatic record changer.
Yes, you're correct. The TT plays sides 1, 2, and 3, then you flip the stack, then sides 4, 5, and 6 are played.
My copy of the Who's Tommy works the same: Sides 1 and 4 on the same LP, sides 2 and 3 an othe other one.
Best regards!
My copy of the Who's Tommy works the same: Sides 1 and 4 on the same LP, sides 2 and 3 an othe other one.
Best regards!
Same story with Hendrix' Electric Ladyland double LP, at least, with the US pressing.
Unfortunately, when the album was first issued on CD, sides one and four were put on the first CD, and two and three on the second, thus destroying the running order and sense of the album. Brilliant.....
Geoff
Unfortunately, when the album was first issued on CD, sides one and four were put on the first CD, and two and three on the second, thus destroying the running order and sense of the album. Brilliant.....
Geoff
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The 'record changer layout' seemed to be more a US than British practice, although my English pressing of Tommy has 1/4, 2/3. The Woodstock albums were also configured for record-changing turntables. Sides 1/6, 2/5 and 3/4. My English pressing of Electric Ladyland has normal numbering, the US did not. However, The Beatles ('white album') was always 1/2, 3/4, whichever issue.
Oz pressings seemed to be a mix of the two. Not sure of the modern practice with newly issued LPs but I hope companies have ditched the 1/4 2/3 etc side numbering.
I really don't get why this was done as record changers were uncommon, at least here; good quality changers even more so. We had a German Dual and used the changer once, it was hopeless!
Geoff
Oz pressings seemed to be a mix of the two. Not sure of the modern practice with newly issued LPs but I hope companies have ditched the 1/4 2/3 etc side numbering.
I really don't get why this was done as record changers were uncommon, at least here; good quality changers even more so. We had a German Dual and used the changer once, it was hopeless!
Geoff
My record changer Tommy copy was pressed in Germany (by Polydor/Deutsche Grammophon). So were my copies of Electric Ladyland, Woodstock and Woodstock Two, all of them not for changers, but in numerical order.
Best regards!
Best regards!