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Posted: 10 May 2015 at 3:39pm | IP Logged Quote crapfromthepast

This song hit #7 in 1978? You'd never know it by listening to the radio in 1979 - this one never made into any radio station's gold library, as far as I know.

The LP version runs 3:36 on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 35 AM Nuggets (1993). Based on the timing, and the tendency for the Time-Life discs to rely on earlier masterings, I'd bet that this version is based on Curb's Shaun Cassidy Greatest Hits, but can't confirm.

There's a different analog transfer on Rhino's Have A Nice Day Vol. 24 (1996), which runs a teeny bit faster and clocks in at 3:34. Both of these versions sound OK - nothing great, but not awful.

Using Have A Nice Day Vol. 24 as the source for the LP version, here are instructions for creating the 45 edit:

Segment 1
Extends from 0:00.0 to 2:39.0 on both the LP version and the 45 edit
Ends on a downbeat on the word "love"

Remove the 56 beats from 2:39.0 to 3:04.7 of the LP version ("love" to "love").

Segment 2
37 beats long
Starts on a downbeat on the word "love"
Extends from 3:04.7 to 3:21.7 of the LP version
Extends from 2:39.0 to 2:55.9 of the 45 edit
Ends on a snare

Remove the 16 beats from 3:21.7 to 3:29.0 of the LP version

Segment 3
Starts on a snare
Extends from 3:29.0 to 3:37.0 (end) of the LP version
Extends from 2:55.9 to 3:03.9 (end) of the 45 edit

Your mixdown will run 3:00 (excluding outro silence), or 3:03.9 (including outro silence), with edits at 2:39.0 and 2:55.9. The edit near 2:56 falls properly on the beat, but it's pretty clumsy. You'll hear background vocals disappear and an open hi-hat come out of nowhere - that's what really on the 45.

Edited by crapfromthepast on 11 May 2015 at 7:09am


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Posted: 11 May 2015 at 7:37pm | IP Logged Quote EdisonLite

crapfromthepast wrote:
This song hit #7 in 1978? You'd never know it by listening to the radio in 1979 - this one never made into any radio station's gold library, as far as I know.


Sadly, many pop hits from that era (especially the ones you'd find on Rhino's "Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day" are songs that were not played on the radio even a year later.

When you make the comment above about this song, I assume you're making your observations about the region of the country where you lived, though I'm sure it's probably true of the whole country.
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Posted: 11 May 2015 at 8:26pm | IP Logged Quote crapfromthepast

EdisonLite wrote:
When you make the comment above about
this song, I assume you're making your observations
about the region of the country where you lived, though
I'm sure it's probably true of the whole country.


That's my guess. Certainly true for the New York City
radio stations, most likely true in other markets.

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Realistically, how many hits by teen heart-throbs made it to
gold rotation? Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman, Leif
Garrett, even Shaun's brother David all met the same fate.
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"I Think I Love You" still gets a fair amount of airplay.

As to the subject at hand, is the 45 version of "Hey Deanie" on Then 70s correct?

Edited by sriv94 on 12 May 2015 at 7:54am


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Posted: 12 May 2015 at 8:40am | IP Logged Quote crapfromthepast

sriv94 wrote:
As to the subject at hand, is the 45
version of "Hey Deanie" on Then 70s correct?


Good question. I'd be happy to evaluate, if someone
could send me the Then 70s version.

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Ron, do pretty much all the Time-Life compilations have the L/R channels reversed? Could you start a separate thread to list the
compilations that you know are reversed?
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TM Studios only has "I Think I Love You" as active in their oldies library, no other Partridge Family or David
Cassidy tracks. Not really a surprise, because even when I was first starting on the radio in 1977, we only
played Leif Garrett and Shaun Cassidy as currents. No recurrent status.
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sriv94 wrote:
As to the subject at hand, is the 45 version of "Hey Deanie" on Then 70s correct?


If I recall, it was the the single version but taken from vinyl.
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Posted: 12 May 2015 at 11:03am | IP Logged Quote crapfromthepast

Excellent question about the left/right channel reversal.

Here are discs that I know to be the source of left/right channel reversal for a few tracks:

The Hits - REO Speedwagon
The Singles Collection - Spandau Ballet
the original '80s era "atomic design" Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears
Greatest Hits 1979-1990 - Dionne Warwick

Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 1 1969 (1991)
Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 3 1973 (1992)
Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 6 1971 (1991)
Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 7 1972 (1991)
Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 13 The Early '70s (1992)
Time-Life's 2-CD Guitar Rock (1990)
Time-Life's 2-CD Guitar Rock Monsters (1992)
Time-Life's Guitar Rock Vol. 3 1976-1977 (1993)
Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 31 AM Top Twenty (1993)
Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 34 Late '70s (1993)
Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 35 AM Nuggets (1993)

I didn't see L/R reversal for Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 32 AM Pop Classics (1993) or Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 33 AM Pop Classics II (1993).

I've only spot-checked the Time-Life discs for songs older than about 1975, so there may be others. I'd keep an eye on others in the AM Gold series. I haven't checked any of the Time-Life '50s or '60s-era music sets in detail, either.

Time-Life brought in Dennis Drake to do a lot of their mastering work in 1995, and he's one of the very best mastering engineers out there. He mastered T-L discs from 1995-2002, and I don't know of any instances where his discs are the source of L/R reversal. (There are probably instances when a track on one of his discs is a clone of a L/R-reversed song from an earlier disc.)

This list isn't complete, by any means, but should give you red flags for particular problem discs.

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EdisonLite wrote:
sriv94 wrote:
As to the subject at hand, is
the 45 version of "Hey Deanie" on Then 70s correct?


If I recall, it was the the single version but taken from vinyl.


Then it most likely was correct, if they went to the trouble of using a
vinyl single to master it from.

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