Stereojack

In the very early days of stereo LP's, the size of the stereo grooves was larger than that of the grooves on a mono record, necessitating the dropping of a track or two from stereo versions of the records. By 1958 the variable cutting lathe was introduced, which made the engineer cutting the master able to vary the groove size sufficiently to include all of the music. A few Lp's which come to mind that had fewer tracks on the stereo versions are "Ellington Indigos" (Columbia), Count Basie "E=MC2" (aka "Atomic") (Roulette), Shorty Rogers "Martians Go Home" (Atlantic).

Bob Sunenblick (Uptown owner) played me a test CD of this a few months ago. I can only say that this is a major discovery. Of course Bob always takes forever to release these things.....

My original stereo copy of this LP, which I first bought back in the 1960's, contains "Loads of Love". I first discovered the variance some years ago when I was listening to this record at a friend's house, and noticed that "Loads of Love" was replaced by "My Kinda Love" on her copy. I recall (but am not certain) that her copy was an original, and the jacket & label did list "Loads of Love". It took us a little while to figure out what the tune was, and eventually I was able to locate a British mono copy that contained and listed "My Kinda Love". Eventually I found the Japanese release, which lists and contains "My Kinda Love" in stereo. Of course, I had to keep both for the sake of completeness! jack