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Posted: 22 February 2012 at 4:22pm | IP Logged Quote Todd Ireland
Commercial 45 copies of Climax's "Precious and Few" are in mono and have an actual run time of 2:44. (Thanks once again to Jim for supplying the timing info. The printed label time is 2:43.) I only pass this along because the song's database CD appearances run from 2:41-2:46.
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Posted: 22 February 2012 at 5:23pm | IP Logged Quote The Hits Man
Also, there seems to be a slight mix difference in the mono
single mix.

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Posted: 24 February 2012 at 12:33am | IP Logged Quote Todd Ireland
Hits Man:

Can you please elaborate a little more on the specific difference you're hearing between the stereo mix and the 2:44 mono 45 mix?
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The string and horns are lower in volume. It's small
things like that that make a difference in the overall
sound and feel of a song.

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Posted: 24 February 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged Quote KentT
And there is an early reissue 45 of this track on Flashback. It uses the old mono Carousel stamper.

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Posted: 25 February 2012 at 3:05pm | IP Logged Quote The Hits Man
KentT wrote:
And there is an early reissue 45 of this
track on Flashback. It uses the old mono Carousel stamper.


I had a later Flashback 45 of it and it was in stereo.

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Posted: 25 February 2012 at 8:59pm | IP Logged Quote KentT
The Stereo Flashback was likely a bit later pressing than my mono one. Might have used an original Promo Stereo side stamper. Thanks for letting us know about this version. It might be the last one before the masters changed hands. Dominion Music now owns the master to this classic.

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Posted: 25 February 2012 at 9:57pm | IP Logged Quote Roscoe
KentT wrote:
The Stereo Flashback was likely a bit later
pressing than my mono one. Might have used an original
Promo Stereo side stamper. Thanks for letting us know about
this version. It might be the last one before the masters
changed hands. Dominion Music now owns the master to this
classic.


Do you happen to know the matrix number of the mono
Flashback 45? I was browsing gemm.com and there are couple
of different Flashback 45s listed (assuming that one is the
mono version and the other is stereo).
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Posted: 26 February 2012 at 12:28am | IP Logged Quote TomDiehl1
KentT wrote:
The Stereo Flashback was likely a bit later pressing than my mono one. Might have used an original Promo Stereo side stamper. Thanks for letting us know about this version. It might be the last one before the masters changed hands. Dominion Music now owns the master to this classic.


My promo copy is mono/mono. I would be interested to know if a mono/stereo promo exists.

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Posted: 26 February 2012 at 7:23am | IP Logged Quote PaulEschen
My Flashback mono 45 (FLB 69) has an inner ring number of Bell-9987-1-1.
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Posted: 04 March 2012 at 7:52pm | IP Logged Quote KentT
And so does my own copy, pre-Arista.

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in my billboard book of top 40 hits, it says that the
climax song 'precious and few' was first released on
carousel 30055, which i have but also states it was
released as rocky road 30055.....i have never seen the
rocky road 45 release.....can anyone confirm that they've
seen or have a copy of the rocky road 30055 vinyl 45?.....

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Posted: 02 February 2013 at 6:32am | IP Logged Quote Paul Haney
edtop40 wrote:
in my billboard book of top 40 hits, it says that the
climax song 'precious and few' was first released on
carousel 30055, which i have but also states it was
released as rocky road 30055.....i have never seen the
rocky road 45 release.....can anyone confirm that they've
seen or have a copy of the rocky road 30055 vinyl 45?.....


Ed, we've since taken that trivia note out of the books. I'd also be curious if anyone has ever seen a copy on Rocky Road. FWIW, Tim Neely does list it in his price guides.
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At one time, I owned a Rock Road test pressing for "Life
And Breath", the follow-up to "Precious And Few." I'd
imagine there are pressings for "Precious And Few" on Rocky
Road.

I just did a Google image search and only the Carousel
label came up.
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Posted: 07 February 2013 at 7:00pm | IP Logged Quote The Hits Man
According to the entry on the Both Sides now site,
"Precious and Few" was reissued as Rocky Road 30055" when
it became a hit single. First pressings in late 1971
were on the Carousel label.

Apparently, In late 1971 or early 1972, the label was
issued a cease and desist notice for the Carousel name,
so owner Marc Gordon abruptly switched the name to Rocky
Road.

The company folded in 1975, just two years after Al
Wilson's "Show And Tell" was a hit on the label.

The reason the reissue 45 wound up on Arista is because
Rocky Road was distributed by Bell, and that company
morphed into Arista when Clive Davis took the company, as
we know.

Edited by The Hits Man on 07 February 2013 at 7:06pm

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