Transferred From Four-Track Quad Master Tapes — On Blu-Ray Now Exclusively At Rhino.com
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(October 17, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) From sunlit harmonies to streetwise funk, Rhino’s Quadio captures the sound of the mid-’70s with four celebrated albums that helped shape the decade: America’s Hearts (1975), Hot Tuna’s America’s Choice (1975), WAR’s Why Can’t We Be Friends? (1975) - a previously unreleased quadraphonic mix, and Jefferson Starship’s Spitfire (1976). All four arrive today on Blu-ray.
Each disc pairs the original quadraphonic mix with a hi-res 192 kHz/24-bit stereo transfer, both sourced from the original analog four-track quad master tapes. Available exclusively through Rhino.com and select Warner Music Group stores worldwide, each title lists for $24.98, or $79.98 as a four-disc bundle. Order HERE.
Hearts was America’s second album with producer George Martin, continuing a successful partnership that spanned six studio releases. It spun off two of the band’s biggest hits—the #1 single “Sister Golden Hair” and the Top 5 ballad “Daisy Jane.” The album reached #4 on the Billboard 200 and went Platinum, underscoring the trio’s creative chemistry with Martin at the helm.
Hot Tuna launched its hard-driving “Rampage Trilogy” with America’s Choice, a change that pushed the group from its earlier acoustic-blues roots into full-blown power-trio rock. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, bassist Jack Casady, and drummer Bob Steeler stretch out on tracks like “Funky #7” and “Serpent Of Dreams,” while the tongue-in-cheek “Hit Single #1” became a fan favorite.
WAR’s trademark fusion of funk, Latin, soul, and rock is in full effect on Why Can’t We Be Friends?, which reached the Billboard Top 10. The Gold-certified album produced two Top 10 singles: “Low Rider,” whose laid-back groove became a pop-culture staple, and the title track, a million-selling anthem of unity that was beamed to the U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts during the historic Apollo-Soyuz link-up in 1975.
Jefferson Starship carried their chart momentum into Spitfire, the band’s third consecutive Platinum album, peaking at #3. Marty Balin’s romantic ballad “With Your Love” rose into the Top 20, while Paul Kantner and Grace Slick led the charge on rockers like “Dance With The Dragon” and “Hot Water,” respectively. The album also featured expansive pieces like the multi-part “Song To The Sun.”
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Tracklists
America – Hearts
1. “Daisy Jane”
2. “Half A Man”
3. “Midnight”
4. "Bell Tree”
5. "Old Virginia”
6. "People In The Valley”
7. "Company”
8. "Woman Tonight”
9. "The Story Of A Teenager”
10. "Sister Golden Hair”
11. "Tomorrow”
12. "Seasons”
Hot Tuna – America’s Choice
1. “Sleep Song”
2. “Funky #7”
3. “Walkin’ Blues”
4. “Invitation”
5. “Hit Single #1”
6. “Serpent Of Dreams”
7. “I Don’t Wanna Go”
8. “Great Divide: Revisited”
WAR – Why Can’t We Be Friends
1. “Don't Let No One Get You Down”
2. “Lotus Blossom”
3. “Heartbeat”
4. “Leroy's Latin Lament (Medley)”
A. “Lonnie Dreams”
B. “The Way We Feel”
C. “La Fiesta”
D. “Lament”
5. “Smile Happy”
6. “So”
7. “Low Rider”
8. “In Mazatlan”
9. "Why Can't We Be Friends?”
Jefferson Starship – Spitfire
1. “Crusin’”
2. “Dance With The Dragon”
3. “Hot Water”
4. “St. Charles”
5. “Song To The Sun”
A. “Ozymandias”
B. “Don’t Let It Rain”
6. “With Your Love”
7. “Switchblade”
8. “Big City”
9. “Love Lovely Love”
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About Quadio
Launched in June 2023 with four landmark albums—Billion Dollar Babies, Paranoid, Nightmares…, and Red Octopus—Rhino’s Quadio Blu-ray series is now two years strong and more than two dozen titles deep, with the most-recent wave featuring Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, Beaver & Krause, and The Modern Jazz Quartet. Every disc is sourced from the original four-channel quad master tapes and offers the original quadraphonic (4.0) mix alongside a hi-res 192 kHz/24-bit stereo track. Quadraphonic sound creates an expansive, immersive soundscape by dimensionally mixing four discrete channels through speakers in each corner of the room.
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