Mono Stack-O-Tracks

[DonnyL]

Japanese compilation that has surf instrumentals on A side, and some mono Stack-O-Tracks stuff on side B.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beach-Boys-Instrumental-Hits-Japan-Promo-Blue-Vinyl-LP-Stack-O-Tracks-Brian-Wils-/360395709365?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item53e9421bb5

wow ... that's pretty unbelievable. I wonder if they got the original mono master? or maybe a folddown? too bad it's missing 5 songs!

Andrew, was 'Stack' originally released only in the U.S., or anywhere else? I know there's the '76 U.K. version.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Never heard of it being released anywhere else until 1976, although it wouldn't surprise me if a 1968 Japanese copy popped up.

[SMiLE Brian]

My needle on my player broke the one time I played it (thank god), so I think my vinyl player couldn't take it either.

[Micha]

My needle on my player broke the one time I played it (thank god), so I think my vinyl player couldn't take it either.

There is a recent vinyl pressing of that from a few years ago. It is definitely in mono, though the sleeve says duophonic. And it sounds just great.

I have a really old pressing of "Best Of Vol 3" on which there is a fake stereo version of "Little Girl I Once Knew" which works astonishingly well over speakers. I didn't dare to listen to it over headphones yet... It sounds pretty clean, too, much better than the old duophonic pressings of the 1965 albums I have.