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ATM: Stevie Wonder vinyl mispress mystery
Posted by minibreakfast on 14 November 2011 - 7:27pm.
I picked up a copy of Songs in the Key of Life a couple of weeks ago for 50p at a car boot sale, sans the EP, naturally, but in excellent condition. When I went to play it this afternoon for the first time I noticed that side 4 is pressed on the back of side 1 and sides 2 and 3 share the same disc.
At first I thought that it was just a labelling mistake but no, this is the way it's pressed. Is this a common mispressing, an artistic statement or have I actually bought something from a car boot sale that's worth more than the usual quid?
Can't find owt on t'internet, can anyone shed light on this? Ta in advance.
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All double albums were done like that at one point...
It's so you can stack them on your Dansette with sides 1&2 uppermost & then flip them over to play sides 3&4 with minimal disruption to your groove...
That explains
why the same thing occurs in my original copy of Quadrophenia.
I too thought that this was some mis-pressing/mis-labelling thing
All?
I thought it was just some. Anyone know the dates?
I thought it was just Motown
The only double albums I've had with this quirk have been on Motown; I think all the Motown doubles (or triples, in the case of a Stevie Wonder compilation) have been like this, but I don't remember any albums on other labels doing it.
I'm sure I have others.
I'll do a search at some point.
track records
track did 2- at least on tommy and quadrophenia (as above post says). I want to say electric ladyland but my vinyl disappeard a long time ago
Electric Ladyland
I can confirm that EL was pressed with sides 1&4 and 2&3. This resulted in the first CD issues of EL being wrongly sequenced, because whoever did that first master had no idea how it was supposed to run.
My Quadrophenia is a normal 1&2 3&4 set. I didn't get it until the late 70s though.
What you have there
is automatic sequencing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_changer#Automatic_sequencing
This happened with many
This happened with many double album releases in the `70`s, sorry no rarity value there.
oops
oops
An American thing
I believe.