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The Hits Man
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I need to sit down and recreate the single edit of "It's A
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On Oct. 12th there is a new Barry Manilow "Playlist" disc due for release. The track list on amazon says it will be fourteen tracks total, but half never even hit the Top 40. Looks like another wasted opportunity by Sony Legacy. I would have included the 45 versions of "It's A Miracle" and "The Old Songs" plus the ellusive "Oh Julie."
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I'm told from inside sources that Barry hates "Oh Julie" and has final say on every compilation CD that Arista/Sony puts out, and he simply doesn't allow this song to make it to CD (not even one time.) That's why the boxed set from the '90s (which would have been the perfect place) doesn't even have it. I actually like the song a lot. Luckily, it's found one place on CD - the Japanese '94 CD release of the '82 "Here Comes the Night" album. But be careful - there's also a Japanese '88 CD release of the album, and it contains "Oh Julie" with a lot more instruments and voices added on top of the original mix. It's actually a "fuller" mix in terms of overall aesthetics, but of course, most of us completists want the original mix on CD. For a time, I liked both mixes equally, but now I'm favoring the "fuller" mix a bit, even though it wasn't the official mix, and nobody still seems to know where that came from. I assume it was mixed in '82, and that Barry & Arista decided to chuck it and simply use the stripped down mix.
I'm not surprised "The Old Songs" single edit (with a few seconds cut out) hasn't been released on CD, but it IS surprising the actual edited single mix of "It's a Miracle" hasn't made it to one CD.
As for "Could It Be Magic" single mix/edit making it to CD, that's because of one person I know in L.A. that was somewhat involved with the project and informed them about the single mix/edit and really pushed for it to be included.
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I wonder if he also influenced them to include the 45
version of "Copacabana" too.
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The Hits Man wrote:
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As far as I know, the only Manilow CD that has the short 45 of "Copacabana" is his 1978 Greatest Hits album (the Foul Play soundtrack doesn't count--that wasn't a Barry Manilow album per se). Every other CD of his either uses the long 45 or the (4:04) Even Now vinyl LP version.
Which reminds me, Pat never did change the notation for all (4:04) versions of "Copa"--those versions are all the Even Now vinyl LP version (while the Even Now CD uses the long 45 version).
Edited by sriv94 on 30 September 2010 at 2:48pm
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A couple years ago, I found the 3:54 short 45 version on Rhapsody. It's labeled as a Dance Vault Mix EP. It may also be on iTunes.
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I was speaking above of "Copacabana."
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It is indeed on iTunes, although I would consider any of the Arista Dance Vault mixes to be more like CD singles as opposed to albums. But, yeah, the short and long 45s of "Copacabana" are on that EP, plus the Spanish short and long 45s as well.
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I keep making that mistake. It's not on the Essential BM.
Disregard.
Edited by The Hits Man on 30 September 2010 at 6:30pm
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sriv94 wrote:
| It is indeed on iTunes, although I would consider any of the Arista Dance Vault mixes to be more like CD singles as opposed to albums. But, yeah, the short and long 45s of "Copacabana" are on that EP, plus the Spanish short and long 45s as well. |
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Have the Spanish short or long 45s of "Copa" been on any CD - or just digitally on iTunes?
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