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crapfromthepast
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When this came out in 1991, I was in a 45 pool as a jukebox operator, so 3 or 4 45s magically showed up in my mailbox every week. I was one happy camper indeed.
I have a commercial 45 for this song, Capitol NR-44761, billed to Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band:
A: The Real Love (printed 4:38, actual 3:44)
B: Roll Me Away (the 1982 hit; printed 4:39)
The version on my 45 is an early 45 of the LP version (which does run 4:38), with a 32-beat fade from 3:29 to 3:46.
The inscription in the deadwax for the matrix number is very interesting. It originally read "NR-1-44743", but the last two digits are crossed out but still legible, and replaced with a "61" after "NR-1-44743". So the A-side matrix number is "NR-1-44761", which is the release number for this 45. The B-side reads "NR-2-44761" with no crossouts.
Was there ever a 44743 release with a different B-side?
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my cassingle issued as capitol 44743 contains, on the A-side, the "edit" version which runs 3:46 and is identical to the version from the promo cd single....do you need an mp3 for your review?
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crapfromthepast
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No, I'm pretty sure the "edit" from the cassette and promo CD singles is the same as the early fade on the commercial 45. I just wasn't sure if there was a true single with the 44743 catalog number.
I'm going to speculate that my 45 was a jukebox-only 45 put out by Capitol after-the-fact, since the catalog number is a little after the hit cassette release, and the B-side is an established hit. There's no bar code on my 45, but there's also no "for jukeboxes only" designation - it could have gone wither way...
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crapfromthepast wrote:
| I'm going to speculate that my 45 was a jukebox-only 45 put out by Capitol after-the-fact, since the catalog number is a little after the hit cassette release, and the B-side is an established hit. There's no bar code on my 45, but there's also no "for jukeboxes only" designation - it could have gone wither way... |
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I don't think that Capitol/EMI had started the "For Jukeboxes Only!" series yet at the time this was released. This single was on the charts around the late summer or early fall of 1991, and I believe the FJO singles really got started around the beginning of '92. Note that while the 45 catalog number is different from the cassette single, it's still part of Capitol's standard single catalog numbering sequence, whereas the FJO 45s generally used their own unique sequence. The different catalog number may have been due to the use of a different B-side (Whitburn shows the B-side of 44743 as "The Mountain").
That having been said, I think you're dead on as to this 45 being aimed at the jukebox market, and its differences from the cassette single being intended to enhance its usefulness to that market. The only caveat I'd add is that, since there isn't that large of a numerical difference between the hit cassette single and the "de facto jukebox" 45, there may not have been that much of a time lag between their release dates. It may not have been an after-the-fact release as much as a test case to experiment with the jukebox 45 concept.
Capitol/EMI was the first major label to really agressively eliminate 45s in the U.S. At the time "The Real Love" was on the charts, Capitol/EMI was releasing very few non-country 45s, though they were still putting out a couple of titles here and there. This may have actually been one of the last non-country 45s Capitol released with a regular single catalog number before the "For Jukeboxes Only!" series was started up. Now I'm curious as to whether Capitol released any other 45s around this time that predated the "For Jukeboxes Only!" series yet similarly deviated from their commercial cassette single counterparts.
Edited by MCT1 on 25 February 2008 at 7:29pm
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That Seger 45 was a big surprise. By that point, Capitol had all but stopped doing commercial 45s – the last one being Heart’s “I Didn’t Want to Need You” over a year earlier. Nothing at all was on a commercial 45 by them for all that time. All of a sudden a “(V)” pops up on the Hot 100 for “The Real Love” in late 1991, and a few more 45s came out shortly afterwards. Among them: Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me”; MC Hammer’s “Addams Groove” and Smokey Robinson’s “Double Good Everything”.
Whether they were having a change of heart, or just “testing the waters” for the “For Jukeboxes Only” series, who knows? But a short time after that spurt, the “FJO” series had started and nothing else on Capitol’s regular singles series was on vinyl for quite a while.
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Also, Capitol had stopped issuing commercial 45s of country singles not by artists named Garth Brooks. At the same time as the above singles, Capitol Nashville issued a 45 of "You Don't Count the Cost" by Billy Dean and "What Do I Do with Me" by Tanya Tucker -- her first commercial 45 since early 1990, and Dean's first one ever.
In retrospect, those stray late-1991 45s seem like a dry run for the "jukeboxes" series that lasted from 1992 until 2002.
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