LED ZEPPELIN Zeppelin II 1969 ATLANTIC VINYL LP with RL/LH CUTS HOTMIX SIDE

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Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II Labels include "CTH" suffix (indicating Terre Haute pressing) and "Mfg By Atlantic Recording Corp., 1841 Broadway, New York, N.Y.". The dead wax side two is slightly narrower than that on side one. Has "SS RL" and "SS LH" etched in the run-outs may have "RL" on Side A and "SS LH" on Side B

Label: Atlantic – SD 8236 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, RL/LH Cuts, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1969 Genre: Rock Style: Hard Rock A1 Whole Lotta Love 5:33 A2 What Is And What Should Never Be 4:47 A3 The Lemon Song 6:20 A4 Thank You 3:50 B1 Heartbreaker 4:15 B2 Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman) 2:40 B3 Ramble On 4:35 B4 Moby Dick 4:25 B5 Bring It On Home 4:19
Taken directly from a widely circulated letter online from Bob Ludwig himself:
"When there were big orders of certain titles and there wasn't physically enough time for one person to crank out the lacquers as fast as the record company wanted, sometimes we would help each other out. For instance, my initials might appear on a Beatles record that Lee mastered. In every case, compared to now, those titles were relatively easy to master. Once one of us mastered an album and it was approved, we made careful notes, either one of us could cut it and it should come out the same. Back then, Lee and I shared the one room and worked different hours so it is possible one of the plants blew a part and needed a replacement right then with no delay. So after I mastered the album (which Eddie Kramer & Atlantic approved) it was shipped to all the radio stations and the initial pressing was all from me and Sterling Sound. Amhet Ertegun at Atlantic heard the album (which Eddie demanded be as hot as possible) and apparently it skipped on his daughters little turntable. Instead of calling us at Sterling and asking us to lower the level a little and telling us where it skipped, they had the disk cutters at Atlantic use my EQ'd cassette file copy and they cut it WAY lower than my original cut plus, in my opinion, it sounded dull and generally not very good sounding in comparison. So all the disks that were played at the radio stations and all the initial pressings world wide came from me (and apparently Lee cut a part or two) and that was what "sold" the record and made it a hit. A year later, whenever I visited someone I would look at their Zeppelin II album to see if it was my cut or Atlantic's cut. It was easy to see by eye, the Atlantic cut ended much farther from the label and the grooves to the naked eye looked very conservative."