Dimensions In Dynagroove

I dug up a couple of more Dynagroove samplers after this other one I shared earlier. RCA really seemed to be pushing this format, good or bad. The first LP is Dimensions In Dynagroove (RCA Victor PRS-180, 1965), and it features artists like Sid Ramin, Si Zentner, Marty Gold, Hugo Montenegro, Morton Gould and Arthur Fiedler.

This second LP, from a year later, didn't even bother to list the artists on the outside of the jacket, instead using the space on the back for a full-sleeve advertisement of the new Swingline portable stereo. At least the previous LP could spare half the back for the artists. So if you wanted to know who was featured on Sounds Fantastic! (RCA Victor RVS-80, 1966), you had to buy it first. Turns out that this one had an arguably better selection of artists, although most of them were well out of touch with popular music of 1966. Sid Ramin, Si Zentner and Marty Gold returned from the previous years LP, but this one also featured such artists as Chet Atkins, Dick Schory, Al Hirt, The Three Suns and even Esquivel. Wasn't Elvis on RCA by this time? Why doesn't he show up on any of these samplers? Or maybe those samplers have been bought up before I'm lucky enough to find them...