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On the topic of 1970s DJ edits, I recall on the radio in 1970, when I was
nine years old, hearing The Partridge Family "I Think I love You" on the
radio in an edited form. The edit is at approximately the 1:38 mark,
where the vocal is "I don't know what I'm up against…". That entire
vocal, which is indeed different from the rest of the song, was not on the
version I heard on the radio in 1970. The song went from instrumental
break up to "hey! I think I love you".
On discogs there is a picture of a promo 45 with timing 2:28. This would
imply the edit I heard could very well be that, perhaps faded early if the
timing is correct. Does anyone have this promo to time it plus it should
be added to the database as it is not currently there.
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David, I do happen to own a Bell 910, U.S. promo 45 copy for "I Think I
Love You". But it is different than the one listed in Discogs, which has the
hit in stereo on one side, and the stock 45 flip, stated to be in mono, on
the other. My copy, however, has a mono/stereo coupling of the hit. Both
sides of my promo 45 copy do list a run time of (2:28), just like the one
you eyeballed on Discogs.
On my copy, however, it turns out that the listed timings are way off, on
both sides. The mono side has an actual time of (2:50) (deadwax is
"9646", then "triangle 81917 RC"), and the stereo side has an actual time
of (2:51) (deadwax is "#9646-S LW", then "triangle 81918"). Luckily, the
Discogs uploader provided full deadwax details for his copy. And both his
and my "I Think I Love You" stereo side promo 45 info do match up
exactly, leading me to believe that his copy actually runs (2:51), just like
mine does.
Wish I had better news for you, David, as to hoping your keen observation
could lead us to the existence of an officially-released 1970 DJ 45 short v.
And who knows, one might just turn up that way one of these days. But
this time, it turned out to be just another listed timing error, false alarm
in the end.
When I began timing my db 45s, 1970 was the year I started with. And
since the listed timings turned out to be just a typo, I didn't report it at
the time. I was still trying to decide what details were noteworthy enough
to post here. At the very start, I was being especially conservative, so as
not to bombard the board with posts. So your query here did serve to re-
focus my attention on that long-forgotten listed/actual time difference,
which did soon enough become "T4MOC post-worthy" information.
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davidclark wrote:
On the topic of 1970s DJ edits, I
recall on the radio in 1970, when I was
nine years old, hearing The Partridge Family "I Think I
love You" on the
radio in an edited form. The edit is at approximately the
1:38 mark,
where the vocal is "I don't know what I'm up against…".
That entire
vocal, which is indeed different from the rest of the song,
was not on the
version I heard on the radio in 1970. The song went from
instrumental
break up to "hey! I think I love you". |
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I suppose it could have been a house edit at the station
you grew up with, though I can't see why they'd bother on a
song that was less than 3:00 (and contained no
controversial lyrics).
Memory is fuzzy after 45 years, but I don't recall playing
an edit of that song.
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Hey David, I can't swear by my fading memory, but I seem
to recall hearing the exact edit you describe, but not on
the radio. I remember it from one of the episodes of the
show that featured the song.
I tried to find it on Youtube to see if I remember it
right, but I only found one of the episodes, and that one
had the full version. MM
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Since some of the other 45's in Bell in mono at the time
were dedicated mono mixes, was the 45 for this song also
a dedicated mono mix?
I don't own the stereo/mono DJ 45, only the stock 45
(which is in mono.)
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Brian W.
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eriejwg wrote:
Since some of the other 45's in Bell
in mono at the time
were dedicated mono mixes, was the 45 for this song
also
a dedicated mono mix?
I don't own the stereo/mono DJ 45, only the stock 45
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I did a fold of "I Think I Love You" about a year or
so ago, and to my ears it sounded EXACTLY like the
mono 45. I always meant to get back to it and do some
more comparisons, but I never got around to it.
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davidclark
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That is a good thought, Mark. Perhaps it was my repeated viewings of
those shows back in the day that I am remembering the edit from, and
not the radio.
I asked my friend Dave in Ottawa to pull his DVDs of the two episodes
that include the song. Both contain the edit (one even contains an edit
toward the beginning of the song)! I did find a YouTube without the edit,
but it's in stereo so not from the TV show soundtrack, rather someone
had dubbed the stereo version over it.
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Thanks, David. The youtube video being stereo made me
wonder of the video was messed with to make match the
song.
I caught some re-runs of the show in the 80's and that's
when that edit jumped right out at me. More brain cells
I'll never get back. :-)
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