Suggestion that Stanley Clarke's School Days was originally intended for quadraphonic release.

[trevorspiro]

In his book Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust, record producer Ken Scott explains that the album School Days was originally intended for release in 4-channel quadraphonic sound in 1976. However, at the last minute the record company decided to release only a standard 2-channel stereo version instead. This required Scott to create a "fold down" version from the 4-track mixes for the stereo release. The original quadraphonic version may still exist in the record company vault, but it has never been issued. Does anybody have any additional information?

 

[J. PUPSTER]

fizzy asked foragingRhino about it and this is what he said...

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...he-speculation-begin.35465/page-8#post-756379

when I look up the Epic label though, it says it's owned by Sony, so I guess I'm not sure what's up with that one

 

[steelydave]

fizzy asked foragingRhino about it and this is what he said...

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...he-speculation-begin.35465/page-8#post-756379

when I look up the Epic label though, it says it's owned by Sony, so I guess I'm not sure what's up with that one

The label School Days was originally on was Nemperor Records, which was distributed by Atlantic until 1977, and then it switched to CBS until it was eventually absorbed by Epic Records after the sale to Sony. So it's now a Sony Music title - I've mentioned this one to Mike Dutton before so he is aware of it - whether it can be licensed or not, I don't know.

I guess judging from ForagingRhino's post that the tapes are still held in a Warner vault dating back to that distribution deal - these kinds of things aren't uncommon providing that everyone knows where everything is. It's possible that the "4-channel session reel" is the master that Ken Scott 'folded down' to make the stereo mix, but it's impossible for me to say without laying eyes on it. But you would think that the quad master must be kicking around somewhere if it isn't that tape anyway.