I was antiquing today and I saw this square box with the Sophisticated Soul cover on it and I said to myself "What the heck is this?"

Turns out it was a reel-to-reel version of that album. I had never seen one before for any Motown item that I am aware of. Also there was a reel-to-reel version of the 16 Original Big Hits Volume 5.

I of course did not buy either one because I would have nothing to play them on, but would these be of interest to anyone this late in the game and would anyone have anything to play them on?

How common was it for Motown to release their albums in this format? So that now means [[I assume) that SS was eventually released in 5 different formats.......vinyl, 8 track, cassette, CD and now reel to reel.