"Doc" wrote

I just got an LP of the classic 70's album "Chase" by
the late Bill Chase, and find that as often seems to be
the case, they put the hit single "Get It On" on the last
track of side one. The inner tracks of course always
have the most distortion. Surely the record companies
knew this, is there a reason they so frequently put the
hits on the inner tracks? At least this is my observation.

Exactly how would a record company know what
tracks, if any, the public would come to consider
"hits"? Do you think record producers are psychic
or what? How come some albums don't have any
hits... didn't they know that, too?