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Post by baylink on Jun 25, 2012 14:05:44 GMT -5
And, oddly, Casey did the "songs that hit number one on their *second* trip to the 40" story, but *not* for Vera's song... for the James Ingram/Linda Ronstadt duet (of, obviously, some other song) that appeared several counts later. That's sort of odd, too, innit?
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Jun 25, 2012 22:57:56 GMT -5
Pleased to hear just now, on 2/21/87, that they played -- at least on that week -- the live version, with the long three-part ending, of Billy Vera's "At This Moment". I believe AT40 played that version during its' entire chart run. |
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Post by baylink on Jun 28, 2012 17:35:15 GMT -5
Me'at is off to the Duke, then. I much prefer that version.
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Post by mct1 on Jul 1, 2012 22:28:18 GMT -5
This weekend's 6/25/77 show featured an unusual version of Boston's "Peace Of Mind". In addition to being obviously heavily edited compared to the album version commonly heard today on classic rock stations, it just sounded generally "off" to me.
I found a discussion thread from 2007 on Pat Downey's web site in which a poster indicated that the 45 of "Peace Of Mind" features a different take of the lead vocal throughout much of the song. That's probably what was played. It sounded to me like the version played by AT40 may have also been slightly sped up.
This may be another case like Eddie Money's "Two Tickets To Paradise", where there were very different 45 and LP versions of a song, but because the memory of the song was long kept alive by AOR/classic rock stations (which played the album version), the 45 version has largely been forgotten.
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Post by bigal on Jul 2, 2012 17:12:59 GMT -5
This weekend's 6/25/77 show featured an unusual version of Boston's "Peace Of Mind". In addition to being obviously heavily edited compared to the album version commonly heard today on classic rock stations, it just sounded generally "off" to me. I found a discussion thread from 2007 on Pat Downey's web site in which a poster indicated that the 45 of "Peace Of Mind" features a different take of the lead vocal throughout much of the song. That's probably what was played. It sounded to me like the version played by AT40 may have also been slightly sped up. This may be another case like Eddie Money's "Two Tickets To Paradise", where there were very different 45 and LP versions of a song, but because the memory of the song was long kept alive by AOR/classic rock stations (which played the album version), the 45 version has largely been forgotten. the 45 version of PEACE OF MIND does indeed have a different vocal track, but unlike TWO TICKET TO PARADISE it isnt as obvious. (sorta like FREE RIDE by Edgar Winter Group), I still cant really tell the difference between both versions of that tune unless you listen to it really hard |
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jul 3, 2012 7:17:40 GMT -5
That always bothered me when groups did that.
Other examples are:
-a difference in the vocal take on Bus Stop by The Hollies between the mono and stereo mixes
-Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf has a ridiculous version on 45 with John Kay sounding like he was kidding around when he recorded the vocal take for the 45.
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Post by baylink on Jul 14, 2012 9:55:19 GMT -5
Kudos to Casey for playing the full 7 minute version of Layla on this week's 70s; he made a point of it... and it was odd, because, for really the first time, I noticed this week how *short* every other song was...
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jul 14, 2012 10:12:13 GMT -5
The piano part at the end of the song was done by Jim Gordon,who co-wrote the song and was actually a drummer by trade. The story goes that Gordon,during a break in recording,sat down at the piano and started to play and when Eric Clapton heard it,he liked it and thought it would be good for the song and they put it in to make it the 7 minute classic?(you can be the judge) that it became. Sadly,Gordon's life was marked by drug use and the voices that he heard in his head that led to him brutally murdering his mother and sent him to prison in California.
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Post by baylink on Jul 16, 2012 12:22:47 GMT -5
It is a matter of taste, certainly, but it's a classic in my mind, and I haven't much taste for the acoustic remake; the coda was in fact what made the record stand out from the run of the mill, Way Back Then.
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Post by jukeboxhero on Jul 16, 2012 13:20:36 GMT -5
I didn't go thru all 9 pages of this thread, so I'm not certain if this was brought up yet. About the strangest version I heard on AT40 of a song was "My Love is Like Whoa" by Mya from 2003. This one version played had a rap during the middle of the song that was VERY vulgar.
I'm pretty sure this version was played only once while the song was on the Top 40.
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Post by mct1 on Jul 23, 2012 23:01:42 GMT -5
A few from this week's Classic AT40 shows:
The version of Aerosmith's "Rag Doll" that Casey played on the 7/23/88 show sounds to me like a different mix from the common album version heard on classic rock stations today. Some internet research suggests that promotional versions of the 45 sent to radio stations had a different version of "Rag Doll" on one side that was both edited and remixed. This is probably what was played. It sounds like the remix has the guitars mixed down, presumably to give the song less of a rock feel and make it more palatable to Top 40 stations. (This may very well have been what most Top 40 stations played at the time; I was pretty much an exclusive AOR listener at that point.)
It is my understanding that the 45 of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" was sped up compared to the album version. The version played in the 7/22/78 show certainly sounded sped up compared to what I hear on classic rock and classic hits stations today.
I only caught the second half of the song, but the version of The Contours' "Do You Love Me" played on 7/23/88 struck me as different from what oldies stations play today (or used to play until the past few years, when they dropped most pre-1964 music). I couldn't find anything indicating that the 1988 hit version of this song was any different from the 1962 hit version, but I did come across some information that the stereo mix of this song was done after the fact and has significant differences from the original mono 45. Anyone know the story here?
Also, it may be my ears playing tricks on me, but The Rolling Stones' "Miss You" as played on 7/22/78 sounded a bit "off" to me as well, especially towards the end of the song. My research indicates that the 45 of "Miss You" was edited, but I can't find any evidence that it had any mix differences.
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Post by tarobe on Jul 23, 2012 23:32:53 GMT -5
There were several different edits of "Miss You." The longest was the 12-inch "disco single" (8:36). The edit on the Some Girls LP runs 4:48. The 45 was 3:31.
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Jul 24, 2012 7:34:06 GMT -5
I, too, noticed the Contours song sounded... more modern. I don't know if it's just because of remastering bringing out fidelity we don't usually hear from our oldies, or if some modern instruments were used. I'd be interested in knowing if this was different.
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Jul 24, 2012 9:51:55 GMT -5
After listening to the original and the one played this weekend back to back, there are great differences between the two. The instruments, and the bass line are different, and you don't hear the low voice in the breakdowns.
The original ran 2:53, this ran almost 3:15. I wonder if this isn't the "weird" remix mentioned in the Wikipedia page mentions that ran over 6 minutes broken down at 3 minutes.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Jul 24, 2012 12:33:29 GMT -5
That version of "Do You Love Me" was in fact an updated dance remix that I am not sure was commerically available at the time. Motown was remixing much of their various Sound of Young America era masters for club DJs throughout the course of the 1980s, and this version may have been done before the original's use in Dirty Dancing.
This was rather common place for many dance oldies in the 1980s, as the remix of the Four Seasons' "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)" that charted in 1994 I heard in clubs as early as 1987.
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