Please post your thoughts and comments on this 1978 RCA CD-4 and tape release of Tomita - Kosmos, featuring the theme from the movie "Star Wars".
This was the last U.S. specific CD-4 album released by RCA, 2 years after their previous CD-4 release which was oddly enough Tomita's Planets album. The fact that a quadradisc from RCA appeared in 1978 was a huge surprise and created much buzz in the small quad community at the time. It probably was a move to cash in on the then current Star Wars craze sweeping the nation.
You can see below that although the album jacket had the ARD1 printed in the album graphics, the quadradisc logo and blurb were added via a sticker, almost like someone forgot to put it in the graphic.
Although two more Tomita albums would be sold in the US and issued US pressing numbers, these were actually Japanese stock albums with US stickers attached to them. The Bremuda Triangle and Bolero CD-4s were sold in very limited numbers with a very small distribution.
Kosmos was in fact the last full US CD-4 release from RCA, a company once known for single issue quadradiscs just a few short years before.
This was the last U.S. specific CD-4 album released by RCA, 2 years after their previous CD-4 release which was oddly enough Tomita's Planets album. The fact that a quadradisc from RCA appeared in 1978 was a huge surprise and created much buzz in the small quad community at the time. It probably was a move to cash in on the then current Star Wars craze sweeping the nation.
You can see below that although the album jacket had the ARD1 printed in the album graphics, the quadradisc logo and blurb were added via a sticker, almost like someone forgot to put it in the graphic.
Although two more Tomita albums would be sold in the US and issued US pressing numbers, these were actually Japanese stock albums with US stickers attached to them. The Bremuda Triangle and Bolero CD-4s were sold in very limited numbers with a very small distribution.
Kosmos was in fact the last full US CD-4 release from RCA, a company once known for single issue quadradiscs just a few short years before.
The second disc doesn't have a surround mix unfortunately...
