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Bay City Rollers!
Someone brought this to my attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_2t7BGSPRY
It is a version of the song with strings and a tambourine.
In fact, it is the way I seem to remember it from back
then.
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Does this mix exist on any CD, maybe an import?
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Grant, that YouTube version (especially the beginning) doesn't sound like the
version I heard on any of my local Top 40 stations and/or AT40 in the
summer of 1977. I do like that "busier, stringy instrumentation intro",
though, so I checked a German import hits CD I'd bought way back in the
late 80's, hoping this video mix might be on there. But no - it had the same
"common" hit 1977 version I own elsewhere. But it did look like they were
lip-syncing that performance, so, like Gordon, I'm hopeful that that video,
likely released on vinyl from somewhere in the world back then, turns up
somewhere on CD.
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The only thing left to do is look for the U.S. Arista 45.
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Grant, I've had the original U.S. 45 since it was a current. And although you
seem to remember that video version to be the original U.S. 45 version, I
strongly disagree - it took me all of about one second to realize that it
isn't/wasn't.
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The only CD versions of this tune has the US single mix. Which is what is common.
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jimct wrote:
Grant, I've had the original U.S. 45 since
it was a current. And although you
seem to remember that video version to be the original U.S.
45 version, I
strongly disagree - it took me all of about one second to
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I will default to your memory. The mind can play tricks.
But I just remember the song sounding livelier than it does
on CD. Oh well...
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The US LP and 45 sounded more lively than the CD to my ears as did the UK LP.
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