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Posted: 02 May 2010 at 4:20am | IP Logged Quote jimct
My commercial 45, confirmed as Philips 40365, has a listed time of (2:45) and an actual time of (2:44). My 45 is vinyl, with deadwax of "PH W 37895 1". I only post this info because the many current database CDs that include this song have run times ranging from (2:38) to (2:46).
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Wow! A vinyl record on Philips? Most Philips/Smash/Mercury singles I've ever had have been styrene.

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I always pick up Philips/Smash/Mercury/Fontana 45s as vinyl pressings when I have a choice....am thinking that all Mercury vinyl I have from the 60's is on promotional releases, though...but certainly have stock vinyl for the other labels. Almost all copies of Ronnie by the Four Seasons that I've come across in person have been vinyl pressings.

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Is that mono or stereo, Jim?
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Brian W. wrote:
Is that mono or stereo, Jim?


[Doing my best Jim impersonation] :)

Brian, when "Sunny" charted in 1966, the first of the late-'60s stereo commercial singles was still 22 months in the future, circa April, 1968.
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Yah Shure wrote:
Brian W. wrote:
Is that mono or stereo, Jim?


[Doing my best Jim impersonation] :)

Brian, when "Sunny" charted in 1966, the first of the late-'60s stereo commercial singles was still 22 months in the future, circa April, 1968.

Yeah, I realized that after I wrote that. I was thinking "Sunny" came out in '68.
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Yah Shure wrote:
Brian W. wrote:
Is that mono or stereo, Jim?


[Doing my best Jim impersonation] :)

Brian, when "Sunny" charted in 1966, the first of the late-'60s stereo commercial singles was still 22 months in the future, circa April, 1968.
Thanks for chiming in, John. You were a dead ringer for me!!   :)
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TomDiehl1 wrote:
I always pick up Philips/Smash/Mercury/Fontana 45s as vinyl pressings when I have a choice....am thinking that all Mercury vinyl I have from the 60's is on promotional releases, though...but certainly have stock vinyl for the other labels. Almost all copies of Ronnie by the Four Seasons that I've come across in person have been vinyl pressings.


I'm not sure if I have "Ronnie", but I don't ever recall seeing a vinyl Mercury-distributed 45, either promo or commercial.

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Steve, I could never detect a real pattern to the vinyl Mercury family 45s, which makes sense, considering that they owned their own pressing facilities. All of the vinyl variations I have were RCA-pressed.

The earliest Philips 45s I have have are all vinyl: several copies of the Springfields' "Silver Thread And Golden Needles" from '62 and "Dominique" from late '63. From that point on, though, it was usually Styrene City, save for the occasional oddity, like "Wild Thing" on Fontana.

The latest commercial vinyl pressing I have is a black-label issue of the Four Seasons' "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" from 1968. The orange "Philips" logo was oddly centered to the right at the top of the label on both sides, with the rest of the label copy centered as usual.

I have vinyl DJ 45s of "Save It For Me" and "Crooked Little Man" from '64, but their commercial counterparts were styrene here.

Jim: your performance royalty should be in the mail any day now. :)
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