The LP You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (1981), featuring a "three-track" side: each track contained a different recording of the title song, alternately performed by Laurie Anderson, William S.
Rhino promoted the gimmick as "Trick-Track" recording.
Henny Youngman's 128 Greatest Jokes, a 1980 Rhino Records LP, featured four-track mastering that allowed for a different random selection of Youngman's jokes to be heard each time the album was played.
John Cooper Clarke's 7" Splat/Twat S EPC 7982 (1979) has Twat (live recording) and Splat (censored version) on two grooves on the A side.
The single was credited on its cover as "The first 'Double Groove' single", although this claim is questionable.
A special 12" version of M's single " Pop Muzik" (1979) features "Pop Muzik" and "M Factor" on one side.
Some editions of The Goodies' " The Funky Gibbon" single (1975) have a double grooved title track with alternative codas.
" The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief" (1973), which has two grooves on side two on its original pressing.
Each side contained three different songs that would play at random depending upon the drop of the stylus.
" Laura Scudder's Magic Record," a 1969 record produced by George Garabedian's Mark 56 Records and offered as a promotional give-away by Laura Scudder's Potato Chips.
"The Fortune Teller Song," a 1951 single by the Fontane Sisters (RCA Victor 4106), contained four different versions of the song, each with a different ending.
It is titled "Fortune Telling Puzzle Record a song and two Fortunes, See if you can find them." This is a multi-Track disc with three recording tracks that go all the way through the record.
One of the earliest examples of a three-track side was a 1901 Pre-Dog Victor A-821 Fortune Telling Record.
Their most famous was a three-track Puzzle Plate (9317) recorded in January 1901 and given as the prize for a competition, for which several master recordings had to be made, distinguished by suffix letters against the catalogue number.
So-called Puzzle Plates produced by the Gramophone Company in London in 18: these were discs with two interleaved tracks, issued as E5504, 9290, 9296.
Some records to have incorporated this feature, include:. Other uses to which multiple-groove recordings have been put include various games (such as horse races or mystery games) where the outcome is determined by which of the record's multiple grooves is played. The disc played a standard introductory section about the start of a wonderful, "super-spectacular" day, then produced one of several different comedic "bad" endings to that day, involving such topics as alien abduction, zits, street violence, and the horrors of a visiting mother-in-law. One side of the album (both sides were labeled "Side 2") was "normal" the other contained a pair of grooves, each of which held different material (later pressings of the record did not include the double groove).Īnother memorable example of a multiple-groove recording was the 1980 flexi disc entitled It's a Super-Spectacular Day issued by MAD magazine. The most frequently cited example of a multiple-groove record is Monty Python's infamous "three-sided" Matching Tie and Handkerchief album, issued in 1973. On a disc that has a multi-groove, whether the listener plays the main track or the hidden track depends on where the stylus is cued. This technique allows hidden tracks to be encoded on LPs, 45 rpms and 78 rpms.
JSTOR ( September 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī multisided record is a type of vinyl record that has more than one groove per side.
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