Scott has me buying organ music! LOL! I've been interested since the A75 The Yes Album with their use of the organ.

Wow! A “next level” channel. Most music channels are only able to go as far as having “unboxing” videos. Scott, you have taken the next step and we have a “boxing” video 😂😂😂 I wonder how many channels will follow suit? 😁

Love the living stereo LPS- thanks for showing these- I have the reel to reel of the bob & ray and mono of eddie heywood Canadian sunset

Hey Scott - great channel! Just wondering if you have purchased any of the new Pablo series from AP and will be reviewing them? The ones I have so far sound amazing!

You shoud do a video on the Phase 4 Stereo line. Its my dads favorite pressing line and it does sound fantastic

Those would be better used for moving your records rather than a permanent storage unless you have so many records that you never play and want to pack away in your closet The cost is 22 dollars??? Way too expensive for a big record collection Cardboard boxes are fine for just moving

I bought a bunch of these based on your recommendation. Excellent quality. The archival boxes intrigue me for UHQR and One Steps...

As an alternative, if you have an IKEA nearby you can take a look at the TJENA box + lid. Usually about 10 dollars. Made of tough card. I wouldn't stack them higher than 2, unlike the Ultra Boxx. They are designed to fit perfectly into the opening of a Kallax, everyone's favorite cheap record shelf. The only drawback is that the opening for the handles has a rather sharp edge that digs into the meat of your fingers, so I wear work gloves if I need to carry the things for any distance longer than a minute.

I'm sure glad that you put this video out, Scott. As you may recall, I talked about moving. I plan on moving my record collection myself and need boxes to load on a moving truck I will drive long distance. I was just just getting ready to buy some cardboard boxes designed for vinyl records from Amazon, but now I'd really like to consider these. I'm a technical person to some extent, so I'm always interested in spec's. Would you happen to know what the weight and edge crush limits are for the Ultra Boxx? I'm using heavy duty boxes with a 75 lb weight and 45 lb edge crush limits for other things (not records) I'm packing. Are the Ultra Boxx boxes stackable and how many high does the manufacturer recommend? As always, thanks for making such really good, interesting videos! 👍👍👍

These boxes would be ideal for moving but they seem kind of pricey for that kind of one and done deal. I’m curious, do have records that aren’t displayed in a record shelving unit?

Enjoyed this, thanks Scott! The $22 price was a shock at first (hey, it’s just a box, right?) but you are spot on - it’s a drop in the hat if it’s storing pricier records inside to give fool proof protection. Piece of mind is priceless

This is a beautiful album, glad I picked the AF version when it was still in print. "Live on the Double Planet" is a great lp as well. Thank you for sharing your stories.

I think if people are storing these in their basement or not in humidity control environment, some can get moisture/humidity absorbing packs from Amazon to stick them inside these boxes… 🤷🏽 Safe Travels Scott!!

Great video Scott, Wonderful solution Good bye U-Haul boxes Thank you Scott

I enjoy your videos. Please keep it up. Cheers.

I am looking forward to hear your opinion on the Acoustic Sounds edition of Diana Krall's Look of Love. Do you plan a video on that?

I LOVE Living Stereo LPs, especially out-there stuff like Esquivel, but also Mancini, Prado, Chet Atkins and others. Thanks for doing this video!

MORE PLZ 🥰🤤

Great video! Stereo was a major innovation in the 50's and just the experience of listening to music that was "dimensional" was a revelation. The inside sleeves of the Living Stereo records explaining the way stereo works are great. The musicians, arrangers, and recording engineers for the records you showed were top notch even though the music might have ranged from fluff to meaningful. I have two copies of the Peter Gunn record, one is an American pressing and the other is a German pressing. The two covers have different colors. I went to a used record store some years ago and the owner put about a dozen pristine classical Living Stereo records in the "free" section. I grabbed all of them and they were like new. Nothing exotic like the stuff in this video - Chicago Symphony, Rubenstein - but amazing records, wonderfully recorded (the story of the recording technique is fascinating).

Scott, great video even though I’m a little late from when you posted this. I was able to pick up an original Monarch pressing at the Austin Record Convention this year for about 100 bucks. To me it sounds really really good. I agree that the 45 RPM is the best bang for the buck for most right now. Do you recommend the other Doors AP 45 titles for the rest of their catalog?

This is excellent❤❤❤❤

Just installed my new Sweet Vinyl SC-1 mini. it works. happy. appreciate your review of this product.

Found a handful of these at AS for $10 a pop. All the used I’ve bought from him in the past has been Mint or close. 🤞

I love exotica, and dig these albums. The one that was new to me was the Bob & Ray album. I grew up in suburban NY and listened to Bob and Ray many times on the radio. Unless I miss my guess, that album cover was drawn by Jack Davis, MAD Magazine artist extraodinaire!

I'm watching. There is always someone who will be interested.

Xavier Cugurt -- zay-vee-er

my unit is arriving today. can't wait to put it into my system

I have the “Saturday Night with Mr. C” record, and although it may sound old-timey and tame, it IS a soundtrack for the times. Perry Como was HUGELY popular throughout the 1950s.. having several number 1 hits on the Billboard charts. Thanks to the magic of television, Perry had a musical program on Saturday evenings that was watched by millions of people and was likewise very popular. The album is basically a recording that’s like a reproduction of his TV show. So don’t think of it as a “throw-away”. Think of it as a time capsule of what our grandparents (and great-grandparents) would have dropped everything to watch on a quiet Saturday evening. They laughed with Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners, and they sang along with Perry Como. Wonderful stuff if you think about it that way.

I've always been drawn to collecting records in the Living Stereo series, a sometimes just for the covers and especially if found for a cheap price.

RCA LPs were the best in any genre. The audio was better, the vinyl was better and nobody came close. I agree with your observation. The records you recommended were world class. Have to disagree with Saturday Night With Mr. C. It was a delightful album, very classy.

This is fantastic. I've wondered about the RCA Living Stereo pop material. You've taken care of some of my questions. Yes, do more of their Popular line!

Hi Scott, just picked up the clear vinyl version of this today for $25 and change and you are right it sounds amazing ! Glad I added it to my collection. I only ever had it on CD before. So to have this and at a reasonable price makes it all the much better.

My favorites are the Bach 3 Concertos for Clavier and Strings - Devetzi/Barshai; and the Bach Suites for Solo Cello - Starker. Both are 'killer' albums. Try those and you'll be like Holy crap, that's good stuff!

Great clip. Thanks!

Niche? That's my middle name! 😅

RCA stereo engineering was real; but "Living Stereo" was just a slogan slapped arbitrarily on album covers regardless of how the music was actually recorded. It was on RCA recordings recorded by Decca engineers in Europe, and on a miserably recorded (crunched dynamics; distorted sonics; overbearing tape hiss) album of Souza marches on RCA's "bargain" Camden label. Nothing wrong with RCA tecordings; but "Living Stereo" was pure hype.

I'm glad to know others are into this kind of thing. Can't go wrong with Perez Prado records. Mancini's Peter Gunn rocks, of course. Never heard of the Dick Schory, I need to get that! I'm old enough to remember what Living Stereo albums sounded like on the large, heavy, real wood, console stereo that my parents had in the early 1960s... ultra-rich sounding speakers and ALL TUBES, baby! You had to wait about 30 seconds after turning it on for the tubes to 'warm up' and I haven't heard a stereo since then that sounded so warm and hey, that's what these records were made for, those delicious console stereos that were actually big pieces of furniture.

I have a few LS records the Peter Gunn being one.

I used to have a small Philco stereo console from 1959 or ‘60, with multiplex stereo FM, record changer, and a pair of external speakers, each of which held a mid and a massive electrostatic tweeter panel. NOTHING would make that thing come alive like these living stereo albums. It was really something spectacular.

The Peter Gunn album sounds amazing.

To me, the best Living Stereo popular release is Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods (LSP 2533). This would unfortunately be rare and expensive to find. This was reissued by Classic Records but the original pressings sounds better. The music was originally recorded in 1957 but somehow was not released until 1962 (the end of the Living Stereo era).

3:11 The Three Suns' keyboardist was Artie Dunn, who is credited as playing the Novachord, the first polyphonic synthesizer of note, on various recordings, though I don't know if he used it on any Three Suns releases.

Great show

Went to a yard sale years ago and purchased a bunch of lps and the seller told me his grandfather worked at RCA in Newark NJ when Living Stereo first appeared,and I had the first dozen classical holy grail in mint condition condition. Got quite a lesson from a collector from Florida and a nice check! Love me some shaded RCA label dog on top Living Stereo!

Once in a blue moon, the KZfaq AI gets the recommendations right. I'm here this morning because of ... that! I can't wait to explore more of this channel. Whilst the video was playing I scrambled to see what Living Stereo records I have. I have to disagree with you about The Three Suns. I have "Love in the Afternoon" which I think is terrific, recorded in Studio A, NYC. But yeah, I guess you have to like that combination to appreciate it. Almost all of these are niche albums anyway. I have two Mario Lanza living stereo and he barely lived long enough to squeeze a couple of these in. In fact, I think most of the Living Stereo output came out after his unfortunate demise. "Sings Caruso Favorites" (Recorded in Italy and came out in '60). "The Desert Song" (also 1960, I don't see a recording studio on that one). When I was a teenager, more than 40 years ago, I used to check this one out of the Plantation (Florida) Public Library along with "The Student Prince" Living Stereo. I know Lanza fans prefer his earlier recordings. I love these personally. The third one I used to check out from that library and I have a copy of right here is Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald "Favorites in Stereo". Even when I was 13, I was blown away by how well it sounded, comparing it to what pop records I had in the late '70s at that time. (Recorded in NY and Hollywood. Perhaps Jeanette was in one place and Nelson, in the other?) You didn't like your Perry Como album. To me, he's one of those who can pretty much do no wrong. The one living stereo I have of his is "When you come to the end of the day" and I have yet to listen to it. Looks like it's mainly inspirational/faith/folk songs. Mitchell Ayres Orch with Ray Charles Singers. Typical combination. Thank you for this video. I never gave "living stereo" too much thought other than that they usually sounded better than what was coming from their competitors.

I grew up with many of these records in our home, played on nice tube component stereo with folded horn type speakers. I was getting to listen to Schory, Gunn and Ravel's Bolero on RCA stereo discs before grade school and was fascinated by it all, though not allowed to touch anything. But when I grew up I started pretty early to gather a collection of my own, of course just "new records" but years later I would seek out a wide variety of vinyl titles. In the days when I would go diving into every box of used records I had a desire to seek those old titles I remembered from the "Golden Age" so I would snag almost everything "Living Stereo" LSC or LSP....And I would get a lot of great records but I quickly realized while there were sonic marvels in those catalogs there were also some very mediocre ones and worse, a few of the most abysmal sounding recordings I have ever had the misfortune to hear. I am glad I never spent a lot of money on them, it still brings me much joy that a lot of vinyl that used to be considered "hard to find" was way less expensive before the Advent of the Online Auction, which certainly proved a greater abundance of pressings still existed, yet overall the prices got driven UP. I certainly cannot complain.

Witches brew?

I don't think clarinet master Pee-Wee Spitelera ever made it to the Living Stereo series, but his two albums are really great (and, his non-LP RCA singles are even better).

Xavier pronounced ZAY-VEE-ER.