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Posted: 16 May 2006 at 5:44pm | IP Logged Quote edtop40

the 45 issued as atlantic 89361 states on the 45's face that it's stereo but it's actually mono and runs 2:53 like all the mono versions in the database...

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Posted: 14 December 2007 at 9:48am | IP Logged Quote jimct

Ed, I would just like to add here that your above information comes from the 1986 commercial 45 release of the song, not the 1961 original hit. My 1986 promo copy of this also states stereo, but is actually mono, and has the exact same listed (2:55); actual (2:53) timings as the 1986 commercial 45 does. This time exactly parallels its CD appearance from the film soundtrack of the same name, from which this new exposure propelled the song to this second, 1986 chart run.

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Posted: 14 December 2007 at 4:04pm | IP Logged Quote TomDiehl1

jimct wrote:
Ed, I would just like to add here that your above information comes from the 1986 commercial 45 release of the song, not the 1961 original hit.


How does this version compare to the original Atco 45? I have both 45's, i've just never dug them out and a/b'd them.

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Posted: 02 June 2013 at 3:15pm | IP Logged Quote MMathews

just curious....

Does anyone know the actual run time of the original 1961
issue?

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Posted: 02 June 2013 at 4:22pm | IP Logged Quote jimct

Mark, my 1961 Atco 6144 commercial 45 has a listed time of (2:44), but,
like Ed's 1986 45 also does, has an actual time of (2:53). Numerous db CDs
include the song. Actual times for mono CD versions range from (2:51) to
(2:54). Actual times for stereo CD versions range from (2:51) to (2:59).

Edited by jimct on 02 June 2013 at 5:46pm
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Posted: 04 June 2013 at 1:29pm | IP Logged Quote MMathews

thanks, Jim!

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jimct wrote:
Ed, I would just like to add here that your above information comes from the 1986 commercial 45 release of the song, not the 1961 original hit. My 1986 promo copy of this also states stereo, but is actually mono, and has the exact same listed (2:55); actual (2:53) timings as the 1986 commercial 45 does. This time exactly parallels its CD appearance from the film soundtrack of the same name, from which this new exposure propelled the song to this second, 1986 chart run.

While researching the K-tel compilations that budaniel inquired about yesterday, I realized that there's a top 40 hit (top 10, actually!) from 1986 that's MISSING from the on-line database - and it's this one. Sure, Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" was originally a top 10 smash when released on Atco 6194 in 1961 (#4 Billboard, #3 Cash Box, and #6 Record World), and yes, it's included in the db as a 1961 hit. However, I can't imagine that its second chart run in 1986 could be questioned as making it a consensus top 40 hit again - after all, when it was featured in the film of the same name and re-released as a commercial single on Atlantic 89361 (as jimct originally noted above), that time it went on to hit #9 in Billboard and #10 in Cash Box (Record World of course being defunct by then)...

Another song w/ two separate top 40 chart runs that immediately comes to mind is "The Twist" by Chubby Checker, in both 1960 & 1962. And sure enough, when you currently do a search of top 40 hits in the db from 1962, "The Twist" appears, w/ the following note:

1962 THE TWIST (this song charted in two different years: 1960 & 1962; see 1960 listings)

Pat, is there a reason the same shouldn't be done for "Stand By Me" under 1986???
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Quote:
when it was featured in the film of the same name
and re-released as a commercial single on Atlantic 89361
(as jimct originally noted above), that time it went on
to hit #9 in Billboard and #10 in Cash Box


I play "Stand By Me" for this very reason on BlackLight
Radio.

It was such a big hit in '86 - '87, that Billboard ranked
it at #67 for the YEAR in 1987.

From what was posted above, am I to understand that the
"hit" version in 1986 was the mono mix?

If the mono mix was the "hit" mix in 1986, is it as
simple as a fold down of the stereo mix, or is it an
independent mix?

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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 7:34pm | IP Logged Quote KentT

It is an independent mix. And was available then in mono
on Atlantic Oldies Series 45 singles as it had been for
many years.

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