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STEREO SOUNDS





NOTES ON THE ABOVE
The transition from mono to stereo was, in this era, as big a change as of our old humble vinyl to the new-fangled format of CDs—it was big, boasting new, improved sound, but in fact most of it was simple representation of the mono sound put through two channels at first, then with the development of technology the full stereo sound came about. However, this was not until the late sixties. Even so, by the early seventies it was still being touted as the new thing, with most record covers featuring instructions on the back on how to play your new stereo record. The album covers here are just a few featuring women on the cover and boasting proudly of the stereo sound, or the superstereo sound, or the thrilling superstereo sound, ad nauseum. There are countless others I could have chosen but they do not have girls on the covers, and were in actuality simply novelty cash-ins using electronic instruments to produce a variety of sounds to demonstrate the versatility of stereo. As stereophonic was the ability to reproduce a sound in three dimensions but through two speakers, it was not lost on the cover designers to stick two identical images (in mirror effect) on the cover to give it that stereoscopic look. Hence you get not one but two images of a semi-naked bird covered in silver paint on the cover of the Sounds Astounding album, two dollies on the cover of Stereo Spectacular, etc. Thank goodness this was only a passing phase. The fourth from last cover features a very prim and proper woman. She looks like my old music teacher. But compare that with the previous one which comes in a great gatefold sleeve—see here. To view larger images use the Database
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