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Although this is likely old news to many of you, Paul McCartney's 1986 "Spies Like Us" is available on import CD on MPL/Parlophone 0777 7 892692 4 - "Press To Play" from that label's "The Paul McCartney Collection." It is one of two bonus tracks on the digital remaster of "Press To Play," as it was recorded during the same session as the rest of the album. Interestingly enough, I found out about the CD location of "Spies Like Us" through Wikipedia.
Like many of you, I am very interested in finding any of the Top 40 songs not available on domestic CD that are available on import CD. Actually, I like to find the LP versions of these songs (if there are both 45 and LP versions) because in many (although certainly not all) cases, the LP version was really the original rendering of the song by the artist before it was edited for 45 release.
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satchdr's "MPL/Parlophone 0777 7 892692 4" is probably an U.K. pressing. My "Press To Play" CD that Japan releases is including "Spies Like Us" as the extra track.
"Press To Play" by PAUL McCARTNEY (Japan releases in 1993) 2,300yen (approximately $20)
CD+Cover+Instruction in Japanese with lyrics+Obi
I feel that CDs of Japanese pressings are expensive. As the one of the reasons, the lyric translation sheet and instruction book in Japanese are mostly contained in the CDs. I know that outside U.S. CDs are costly in U.S. online stores. However, the prices of CDs that Japan releases are more expensive than the outside-Japan CDs at the used CD stores in Japan. Because most of Japanese are needing the lyric translation sheet and instruction bbook in Japanese.
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Dave Edmunds - "I Hear You Knocking"
The mono single version is available on the import CD Rockpile
(2001, Repertoire 4966), as well as his hard-to-find follow-up "I'm Coming
Home."
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PaulEschen wrote:
Dave Edmunds - "I Hear You Knocking"
The mono single version is available on the import CD Rockpile
(2001, Repertoire 4966), as well as his hard-to-find follow-up "I'm Coming
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Cool, just snapped one up on Amazon.
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Found Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" in mono on the 2003 Virgin/EMI import "The Best One Hit Wonders in the World...Ever!" (VTDCD 497 7243 8 13207 2 3)
I don't think I own the 45, but I folded the stereo version on "Billboard's Top Rock 'N' Roll Hits 1970" to compare it, and I don't think the Virgin CD is a fold-down. It's hard to tell, but in the instrumental sections of the song between the chorus, the instrumentation seems to get much more aggressive-sounding than on the folded stereo version. The bass seems louder and the drums seem punchier in those sections. It also seems like the vocal may be a tad lower in volume on the mono version, but it's hard to tell.
Edited by Brian W. on 22 March 2010 at 11:01am
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Eddie Fisher
All of Eddie's Top 40 singles (including "Without You") can be found on the
British CD Song Of The Dreamer - Hits & Highlights (Blue Orchid
BLUE108CD) from 2008. Most of the songs sound fine, but beware if anyone
is looking for a CD copy of "Don't Stay Away Too Long", the flip of "Song Of
The Dreamer": the version here is extremely muffled and processed, with no
fidelity. I don't understand this, as even my old stratchy 45 sounds brighter
than whatever copy they used.
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PaulEschen wrote:
Eddie Fisher
All of Eddie's Top 40 singles (including "Without You") can be found on the
British CD Song Of The Dreamer - Hits & Highlights (Blue Orchid
BLUE108CD) from 2008. Most of the songs sound fine, but beware if anyone
is looking for a CD copy of "Don't Stay Away Too Long", the flip of "Song Of
The Dreamer": the version here is extremely muffled and processed, with no
fidelity. I don't understand this, as even my old stratchy 45 sounds brighter
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Surely that's a gray area release mastered from disc dubs, unless there's a notation in the copyright that it's licensed from BMG. If not, they likely bootlegged legitimate CD releases. I think all his hits are on the 2-disc Taragon CD, aren't they?
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PaulEschen
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You're right, there's no mention of BMG on the cover, while there is mention
of using "original source material, including Shellac and Vinyl." And the
Taragon CD does not have "Without You."
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EdisonLite wrote:
| The full-length single version of Jimmy Ruffin's "Hold On To My Love" is available on "25 Years of Rock 'n Roll: 1980", released in the UK. (I note this because the only US CD release of this song is the shorter version that was available only on promo singles.) |
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Edisonlite.... Is there anything else worthwhile (with regards to hard to find 45 versions) on this CD?
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Eric Burdon & The Animals - Monterey
The mono single version of this song is available on the UK import The
Twain Shall Meet (2004, Repertoire 1022). This CD also has the UK mono
single version of Sky Pilot (Pts. One & Two).
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The Association
As mentioned by Brian W. in the 'More Mono Finds' thread, the mono
single versions of "Along Comes Mary" and "Cherish" are available on the UK
import And Then...Along Comes The Association (1966, 2011 Now
Sounds CRNOW 25). Also, this company has released Birthday (1968,
2010 Now Sounds CRNOW 15), which has mono versions of "Everything That
Touches You" (actual time 3:17) and "Time For Livin'" (2:44). JimCT stated in
his post for "Everything..." that his 45's actual time is 3:14, so I can't address
the possible speed issue, as I don't have the original 45.
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PaulEschen wrote:
The Association
As mentioned by Brian W. in the 'More Mono Finds' thread, the mono
single versions of "Along Comes Mary" and "Cherish" are available on the UK
import And Then...Along Comes The Association (1966, 2011 Now
Sounds CRNOW 25). Also, this company has released Birthday (1968,
2010 Now Sounds CRNOW 15), which has mono versions of "Everything That
Touches You" (actual time 3:17) and "Time For Livin'" (2:44). JimCT stated in
his post for "Everything..." that his 45's actual time is 3:14, so I can't address
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I still have not found a copy of this in a store! I guess I'm to have to order it from Amazon.
By the way, Now Sounds revealed on the Steve Hoffman site that they will release expanded mono editions of The Association's "Insight Out" and "Rennaisance" albums later this summer.
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And, of course, as I posted in its own thread, the long-lost 45 version of "The Chipmunk Song" has just been released on the UK import, "The London American Label Year by Year - 1958," in excellent sound from a good tape source.
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The hit 1964 MGM 45/LP edit of the Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun" has finally surfaced on CD, via Warner Music Japan's Parlophone label (the uncut HOTRS was not issued by MGM until about a year later.) Listed as "The House Of The Rising Sun (edit version)," it is the last of eleven bonus tracks on The Animals (WPCR-15413) with an actual time of 3:00. Though nowhere near being brickwalled, the disc is mastered a hair on the loud side.
Also new from Warner Japan/Parlophone: both the European and U.S. versions of "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place" are included on Animal Tracks (WPCR-15414), with the latter U.S. version bonus track - listed as "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place (alternate take)" - clocking in at an actual 3:14. Sonically, this one runs loud. The Animals' 2004 Abkco Retrospective collection is a better choice for the U.S. 45/LP version. And for those who prefer the non-U.S. worldwide hit, stick with the Animals' old warhorse 1987 EMI U.K. The Singles Plus disc (CDP 7 46605 2), which still has the best-sounding "House Of The Rising Sun," IMO.
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That's interesting news on the US 45 edit of "House Of The Rising Sun." I have a wav file of the edit that sounds very good (it's from a mint US album which contained the same edit). If you have never heard the US single version it has two obvious edits which might just be the worse edits ever done on a number one hit.
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Yah Shure wrote:
| The hit 1964 MGM 45/LP edit of the Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun" has finally surfaced on CD, via Warner Music Japan's Parlophone label (the uncut HOTRS was not issued by MGM until about a year later.) Listed as "The House Of The Rising Sun (edit version)," it is the last of eleven bonus tracks on The Animals (WPCR-15413) with an actual time of 3:00. |
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Unfortunately, it's a disc dub, and a really bad one at that.
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S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time (Do It Right) (Part 1)
The US commercial single version of this song (3:51) is available on an
EU box set called The Tabu Anthology (2014 Demon/Tabu
TABUBOX0003). The box has an entire disc of 7" mixes according to liner
notes, but the band's hit is the only single I own, so I cannot compare the
rest.
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I thought I'd jump right in on the Eddie Fisher discussion (before it got to be what - 6 years old?)...
Unless I missed something during that time, the correct 45 version of "Downhearted" has also yet to appear on CD anywhere. The Taragon version as well as the one on the Song Of The Dreamer - Hits & Highlights (Blue Orchid
BLUE108CD)CD are alternates. The easiest way to spot the alternate is at the :50 mark, where the correct version's phasing is "...I lost the truest love I'll ever know..." The version on both CDs is "...I lost the truest love (pause) I'll ever know" and a higher note on the word "I'll." The only place I've seen the correct version is on the old RCA 45. Does anyone know of an LP where the correct version might be? Greatest Hits/reissues that I have contain the alternate version. Was there even an old LP that might have it? No hurry on this - obviously...
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PaulEschen wrote:
S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time (Do
It Right) (Part 1)
The US commercial single version of this song
(3:51) is available on an
EU box set called The Tabu Anthology (2014
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It's a disc dub on that particular CD. Apparently they
couldn't find the US 45 master. Fortunately Eric Records
found it and used it on a "Hard to Find 45s" volume last
year.
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Robert wrote:
I thought I'd jump right in on the Eddie Fisher discussion (before it got to be what - 6 years old?)...
Unless I missed something during that time, the correct 45 version of "Downhearted" has also yet to appear on CD anywhere. The Taragon version as well as the one on the Song Of The Dreamer - Hits & Highlights (Blue Orchid
BLUE108CD)CD are alternates. The easiest way to spot the alternate is at the :50 mark, where the correct version's phasing is "...I lost the truest love I'll ever know..." The version on both CDs is "...I lost the truest love (pause) I'll ever know" and a higher note on the word "I'll." The only place I've seen the correct version is on the old RCA 45. Does anyone know of an LP where the correct version might be? Greatest Hits/reissues that I have contain the alternate version. Was there even an old LP that might have it? No hurry on this - obviously... |
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Thanks for pointing this out, Robert. I'd never noticed before that the Taragon version is not the hit version. Apart from the 45 and the Taragon CD, the only other place I have the song is on the German Eddie Fisher's Greatest Hits vinyl album, which I believe was issued some time in the 1980s, and it is also the alternate take. So it looks like the hit version has been MIA for a long time.
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