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Post by vince on Feb 15, 2009 21:44:28 GMT -5
“Hotel California” may have been played uncut the week of 4/2/77. The segment is 10:41 and the other song in the segment is “I’ve Got Love On My Mind” by Natalie Cole that has a play time of 4:20. Unless a long story was told there is time to play 6:08 Hotel California. I don’t have the actual show to tell for sure. Most of the other weeks “Hotel California” was on the chart, the time of the segments do not look long enough to have played it uncut unless they faded it very early.
Long songs did occasionally get played on the three hour shows. AT40 played the 5:45 version of “With A Little Luck” by Wings the week it debut, 4/8/78, and the first week it was #1 on 5/20/78.
The only time in the classic era AT40 cut the #1 song in the year end show was 1976. They cut about a minute out of the 5:54 “Silly Love Songs”.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 16, 2009 16:20:58 GMT -5
I thought "With A Little Luck" was edited on the 4/8/1978 show when it aired on Premiere last year unless Premiere edited the song.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 16, 2009 18:15:30 GMT -5
I'm sure that "AT40" did play "Hotel California" unedited-Unfortunately,there were a few weeks when they had to air the edited version.
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Post by vince on Feb 16, 2009 20:25:43 GMT -5
I thought "With A Little Luck" was edited on the 4/8/1978 show when it aired on Premiere last year unless Premiere edited the song. Premiere did the edit on the 4/8/78 show. Premiere’s edit of “With A Little Luck” sounded like an unsuccessful attempt at recreating the promotional single version. Premiere’s edit was it is slightly shorter. AT40’s original edit of “With A Little Luck” had two edits. The 2nd verse was cut out and part of the musical interlude was also cut out. |
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Post by mkarns on Apr 7, 2009 11:25:06 GMT -5
“Hotel California” may have been played uncut the week of 4/2/77. The segment is 10:41 and the other song in the segment is “I’ve Got Love On My Mind” by Natalie Cole that has a play time of 4:20. Unless a long story was told there is time to play 6:08 Hotel California. I don’t have the actual show to tell for sure. Most of the other weeks “Hotel California” was on the chart, the time of the segments do not look long enough to have played it uncut unless they faded it very early. Long songs did occasionally get played on the three hour shows. AT40 played the 5:45 version of “With A Little Luck” by Wings the week it debut, 4/8/78, and the first week it was #1 on 5/20/78. The only time in the classic era AT40 cut the #1 song in the year end show was 1976. They cut about a minute out of the 5:54 “Silly Love Songs”. Just listened to the 4/2/77 countdown (on XM last weekend), and it includes the complete 6:08 "Hotel California". Of course, that means that some other hits that had been around for a while by then were cut sharply--"I Like Dreamin" was only 1:53, and "Night Moves" 2:20. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 7, 2009 11:56:44 GMT -5
Capitol Records did release an edited version of "Night Moves" in late 1976-I prefer the album version myself.
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Post by mayberrymiles on Apr 7, 2009 16:29:35 GMT -5
dougray2:
Just listening now to the 2-26-1977 AT 40 program as it aired on XM, either in 2007 or 2008. "Bite Your Lip" by Elton John clocked in at about 3:30, which I think was the usual single version of the song. Did you hear another version of this program with a longer version of this song? I also haven't noticed any substantial edits on the other songs in this hour so far.
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Post by dougray2 on Apr 8, 2009 16:02:40 GMT -5
dougray2: Just listening now to the 2-26-1977 AT 40 program as it aired on XM, either in 2007 or 2008. "Bite Your Lip" by Elton John clocked in at about 3:30, which I think was the usual single version of the song. Did you hear another version of this program with a longer version of this song? I also haven't noticed any substantial edits on the other songs in this hour so far. I do not have a copy of the 2/26/77 show, but I remember listening to it on XM. They edited The First Cut by Rod Stewart at #38, Sam by Olivia Newton-John at 36, and Walk This Way by Aerosmith at 35. I know the Elton John single is 3:37, but it seemed like they played a longer version that week. I do have the 3/5/77 show and they played the regular single version then. |
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Post by vince on Apr 8, 2009 22:03:26 GMT -5
Capitol's edit of "Night Moves" was 3:20. If it was 2:20 on the 4/2/77 show then AT40 must have done some additional editting.
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Post by Shannon Lynn on Apr 9, 2009 17:21:12 GMT -5
You just never know what edit will show up. Even AT40 didn't use the same edit consistently when they originally produced the show from week to week. I may be redundant here but the production cue sheets had indications for 45 version, LP version, DJ version and cart (meaning the AT40 edit of any of the previous versions). Disco cuts are the worst though to restore and match because you're having to find all of the beat, rhythm, instrument changes and edit a nine minute dance version to 3 minutes LOL
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Post by mkarns on Apr 13, 2009 10:48:52 GMT -5
I thought "With A Little Luck" was edited on the 4/8/1978 show when it aired on Premiere last year unless Premiere edited the song. Premiere did the edit on the 4/8/78 show. Premiere’s edit of “With A Little Luck” sounded like an unsuccessful attempt at recreating the promotional single version. Premiere’s edit was it is slightly shorter. AT40’s original edit of “With A Little Luck” had two edits. The 2nd verse was cut out and part of the musical interlude was also cut out. XM ran the full length version of the song in its broadcast of the same countdown this past weekend. |
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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Nov 14, 2009 23:24:49 GMT -5
I was hunting for the "edited" version of "You Make Loving Fun" by Fleetwood Mac. You know, after reading this topic, I realise that the following must be AT40 edits:
INXS - What You Need
Heart - These Dreams
to name a few from the top of my head.
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Post by tf1453 on Nov 14, 2009 23:35:16 GMT -5
The "These Dreams" edit was actually the 45 edit, as half of the first verse was edited out and jumped right to the chorus. I also think the INXS single was the radio edit, with the short intro being edited the version I heard in '86.
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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Nov 14, 2009 23:52:47 GMT -5
The "These Dreams" edit was actually the 45 edit, as half of the first verse was edited out and jumped right to the chorus. I also think the INXS single was the radio edit, with the short intro being edited the version I heard in '86. Half of the first verse? No, no,no the one that I heard on AT40 on several occasions skips the entire second verse of the record and jumps to the bridge. |
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Post by mstgator on Nov 15, 2009 16:59:11 GMT -5
Yes, AT40 used that really short custom edit too many times. I hated when they seemed to lock on one song to edit down every time they needed to shorten an hour (they did that with Steely Dan's "Peg" as well, only playing the full version a few times).
I'm currently up to early 1988 on my chronological listening trip, and they had some major butcher jobs in late '87 / early '88, with multiple edits that weren't on-beat (you'd think that the record had skipped until you heard the same bad edits in several shows). "I Want Your Sex" and "The Pleasure Principle" were the worst of the lot.
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