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the database states that some cd versions run 6:28 and some run 3:07 while the 45's face always stated 3:07.....my 45 states the run time as 6:31 but actually runs 6:28..........it this just a type or do i have a rare 45??
Edited by edtop40 on 20 May 2011 at 11:59am
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I'm guessing you probably don't have a rare 45, Ed. More likely, it's just the first vinyl 45 copy with a 6:31 print time that has come to Pat's attention.
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I just timed both my commercial 45 issues for this, which are both stereo. My listed (3:07) 45 actually comes in just a second longer, at (3:08), but my listed (6:31) commercial 45 has an actual time of (6:26), which is :05 different than Ed's earlier-submitted timing. My (6:26) timing happens to be closer to the 5 "long version" database CD appearances. FYI, my long 45's deadwax is "ST-A-26085-1".
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Interesting... and it begs the question as to why a record label would go through the trouble of issuing two different pressings of a song that differ in length by only a handful of seconds? I can't recall other examples off the top of my head, but I know the good folks on this message board have uncovered several other Top 40 hits where multiple 45 pressings have differed only by a mere few seconds in length.
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It's possible that 2 versions, seemingly only 5 seconds apart, are actually 2 completely different edits that time out about the same. Or maybe they have different mixes but fade out just a few seconds apart. It would be interesting, as Todd Ireland points out, to know if there are any 2 versions that truly differ by one simply fading a few seconds earlier/later than the other. (And why would a label even bother?) I know sometimes a 45 will be just a few seconds shorter than the LP -- but 2 variations on 45s?? That would be odd.
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Actually, Gordon, I now remember Jim uncovering one such example very recently. There are two different commercial 45 pressings of Bloodstone's "Natural High" and their respective run times are 3:59 and 4:04... just a five second difference!
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Given that different plants pressed the same records in different parts of the US, perhaps the recording engineer who was making the masters got anxious and faded it a tad early to speed up the process. Or, since it is kind of a long fade out, maybe the engineer thought it was done when it really wasn't. Only a guess...
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