Teen Beat: Four in Four corners - Charlie Rich

Yes, it's the fantastic 1970's again where equipment had wood effect surrounds and we had four speakers as in this lovely Sanyo unit that has a built in Q8 Quadraphonic and stereo tape player, a FM/AM radio, an aux input and a "matrix decoder" to get four channels out of records using that system.
Into that era some of us had odd ball likes compared with our peers and one of mine was a liking for Country music which takes me to two cds that merged recently by an artist of this era  I liked, Charlie Rich who having experimented with blues settled on country.

This one contains a all time favourite recording of mine "The Most Beautiful Girl" which its rich arrangements from 1973's Behind Closed Doors and his 1975 album Every Time You Touch Me.

The Silver Fox is a autobiographical medley of hits by him setting out his recording career while Very Special Love Songs is a selection he loved and chose to record with his backing group, the Nashville Edition both from 1974.
The common denominator is all four albums apart from being favourites  were originally Quadraphonic records and tapes, the very tapes you'd play in that Sanyo unit with four matching speakers in the corner of your room
Because of the Super Audio cd format, all of those Quad versions are made available again in higher quality than we had originally on these re-issues apart from the stereo versions on the regular cd (plus the super audio cd layer)