Hair Goes Latin - Edmundo Ros

Hair Goes Latin
Edmundo Ros And His Orchestra
All Titles Are Written by Ragni; Rado and MacDermot
Producer: Raymond Richardson
Arranger: Roland Shaw
Engineer: Arthur Bannister
Front and Rear Photo: Photo Media, Ltd.
Design: Marvin Edson Associates
Phase 4 Stereo
London SP 44134
1970

Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the cover art and jacket notes excerpt.

From the inside cover (book fold): It was in 1961 that London Records broke the sonic barrier, as it were, and unveiled the marvel of of "phase 4 stereo." A radically new and dramatic concept in the art of high fidelity reproduction, it combined the most attractive features of all the earlier stereo techniques, and added a good many others as well. It vividly expanded the scope and the spectrum of recorded sound; it permitted amazing flexibility in instrument placement; it introduced striking ideas in orchestration, especially designed to take advantage of the stereo medium. Perhaps the most remarkable innovation was London's custom-built 10-channel console mixer, which permitted a sense of motion and an uncanny illusion of spatial realism unapproached by conventional disc methods.

And, of course, behind the sounds came the music – exciting music by such established artists as Edmundo Pos, Stanley Black and Ted Heath. Brilliant newcomers like Ronnie Aldrich joined the performing roster, and the revolutionary techniques of phase 4 stere were displayed in such dazzling musical showcases as the now-famous "Pass in Review" album. Not surprisingly, the impact of the initial twelve releases in the phase 4 stereo series was tremendous. Ten of them immediately swirled up to the bestseller charts, and the critics seconded the public's enthusiasm with phrases like "awesome sonic experience" and "most exciting sound ever." "Comes close to black magic" raved a reviewer in High Fidelity Magazine, while Dorothy Kilgallen summed it up quite nicely when she wrote in her syndicated column; "phase 4 is the ultimate in stereo sound."

Good Morning Starshine
Ain't Got No
I Got Life
Where Do I Go?
Hara Krishna (Be In)
Aquarius
Hair
Easy To Be Hard
Manchester England
Frank Mills
Let The Sunshine In
Donna