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From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 5/6/2004 4:19 AM Pacific Standard Time
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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.

No doubt one reason the industry was so happy to go digital - the technology
puts fewer constraints on art and merchandising.

"The industry" being? Certainly the record companies were happy. It meant
reselling their catalog at increased prices with lower costs. The opinions
amoung the artists seemed to have been quite mixed. No doubt though, CDs
offered greater flexibility with song order and length for new titles. I think
the art work for the packaging suffered.