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Ron S wrote:
I am sorry that my posts about finding a song on a
particular CD is
bothering you. And btw I am a paying member and fairly
new to the board
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Ron, it's great to have you on board. Had it not been
for my discovery of this forum in 2007 through an
article posted about '45 versions' and 'DJ edits' I'd
still have all LP versions for songs prior to 1994!
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Ron S wrote:
Just heard the song on Casey's top
40....it was #1 btw and Casey played the
LP mix. It had so much echo in it. Casey usually
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I never noticed a lot of consistency on what got
played on AT40. Usually it was the 45 version, and
often the radio edit, but occasionally I'd hear album
versions too.
I believe that at least some of the retro AT40 shows
being used today have been remastered, which could
mean a different version/mix of a song than what Casey
played back in the day.
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Hykker - I talked to Shannon Lynn (he remastered the '70s-'80s AT40 shows) a while back, and I think he tried to use the proper edits/versions when he could. I've heard some song abbreviations (especially in the year-end shows) that were undoubtedly AT40 in-house edits, and it sounds like Shannon preserved or re-created those edits whenever he could.
But I don't know how deep his knowledge base was. For example, I was in radio in the late '80s, and I didn't realize that "Could've Been" had a dedicated 45 mix until I found it here on the forum. If I didn't know about it, I can't imagine that he would have realized it, either.
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Ron S wrote:
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You were vague in your original post, which is why I thought you were possibly referring to an online video such as youtube. I am a huge Casey fan and was not aware that any radio even played his old countdowns.
Ron S wrote:
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I have no idea where you got that impression Ron S, you are not a bother. Rather I think it is more that the board is searchable and sometimes topics have already been discussed that do answer your questions. Pat's database will point you in the right direction of the location of the 45 version if it is available on CD.
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I will contact you via your email to assist you. We are all very friendly here and I in no way meant to give you any impression that I am not here to help.
If there is anything I can answer for you after you get my email please don't be afraid to ask. We all love music and we are all here for the same thing.
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Rebroadcasts of old episodes of American Top 40 have been distributed for a number of years. There are two series, one with episodes from the '70s, one from the '80s. A couple of weeks ago, the featured episode from the '80s series was from February 13, 1988. That's probably what Ron S. heard on the radio.
Agreed with the comments above, that 1) the people who remaster these shows are sensitive to songs having differing versions, and try to match what was in the original broadcasts, but that 2) they aren't perfect in that regard, and in a case like this, where the differences between the two versions are relatively subtle and probably not very well-known, who knows if they even realized that there is a difference. Ideally, of course, they'd be hanging around on this discussion board....
Earlier this evening, I was listening to a recording I have of the show from January 30, 1988, two weeks before the episode that Ron S. heard. (My recording is from the 21st century rebroadcast series, not the original broadcast from 1988.) I popped in here because I had a question about the #1 song, "Need You Tonight" by INXS, and was surprised to see a thread on the front page about the #2 song, which was "Could've Been".
I went back and listened to "Could've Been" again, and it is the album version. The "monstrous echo" referenced upthread on the line "just about to die" is definitely present. As with the episode Ron S. heard, it's conceivably possible that this isn't what was played on the original broadcast.
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MCT1 wrote:
| I went back and listened to "Could've Been" again, and it is the album version. The "monstrous echo" referenced upthread on the line "just about to die" is definitely present. As with the episode Ron S. heard, it's conceivably possible that this isn't what was played on the original broadcast. |
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That's possible for sure, but I wouldn't put it past Casey to have played an album version on the show. In fact, I seem to remember about a month after he left and Shadoe Stevens stepped in, the album version of "Monkey" by George Michael was played during the last two weeks it was in the Top 40. I remember thinking that was odd because I believe up until then, they had only played the Single Version, and AT40 was the only place I heard the Single Version on the radio. My local Top 40 only played the Album Version.
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