60s album cover, put a girl on, sell!

This music is good chit

I found this record in my Dad's collection. It was an attempt at a fancy, high tech multidimensional sound. Put a girl on the cover with a lot of promises of sound and sell. The problem is the music is awful, pre-musak elevator type.

Phase 4 Stereo was a recording process created by the U.K. Decca Records label in 1961.[1] The process was used on U.K. Decca recordings and also those of its American subsidiary London Records during the 1960s.

Phase 4 Stereo recordings were created with an innovative 10-channel, and later 20-channel, "recording console"[2] (actually a mixing console.) The concept of Phase 4 Stereo has no connection with Quadraphonic sound or "four channel stereo." But because there often are sounds out of phase, the records may also give pleasing results when played on Hafler circuit systems or other simulated four channel systems.

Approximately two hundred albums were released with the process, including popular music, "gimmick" records engineered to make the sound travel from speaker to speaker, records featuring percussion effects, and historical sound effect records. In 1964, a light classical Phase 4 "Concert Series" was produced.

In those days they did not have the slightest pretense that the girl pictured had anything at all to do with the music. The woman was simply an object.

See how superior this approach was?