George Strait - 50 Number Ones [2 CD set]

Wanted to hear some George Strait music yesterday so I took his 50 Number Ones [2 CD set] off the shelf for the first time. I have an advance promotional copy in a paper fold-out sleeve that I received when it was first released in 2004. I had never played it before as I usually listen to Strait's individual albums.

But as I was listening some of the songs did not sound quite right to me. I realized that several had been edited. Some had just a few seconds trimmed while others lost more. My guess is that MCA did that to trim some time to fit all of the tracks on the two CD's as each CD runs 77 minutes. There's 26 tracks on CD #1 and 25 on CD #2. His brand new single at that time "I Hate Everything" was the additional track on disc one.

Here are the edited tracks. Edited time is in brackets followed by the original single/album time. I checked and none were released as single edits. Strait issued very few single edits or remixes.

Checked Qobuz for this album and discovered that these tracks were given an "edited version" designation for the download.

Disc One

2. Fool Hearted Memory [2:12] 2:37
6. Let’s Fall To Pieces Together [2:21] 2:58
11. Ocean Front Property [2:40] 3:06
14. Famous Last Words Of A Fool [3:19] 3:33
17. Baby’s Gotten Good At Goodbye [2:55] 3:27
24. The Chill Of An Early Fall [3:16] 3:29

Disc Two

2. Easy Come, Easy Go [2:34] 3:02
6. You Can’t Make A Heart Love Somebody [2:48] 3:20
10 Blue Clear Sky [2:34] 2:52
11. Carried Away [2:57] 3:19
13. One Night At A Time [3:18] 3:49
14. Carrying Your Love With Me [3:06] 3:50
18. True [3:12] 3:31
22. Go On [3:21] 3:48
23. Run [3:45] 4:04
25. She’ll Leave You With A Smile [2:44] 2:57

Thanks for the heads up, Ken. Luckily, I only had one of the edited songs which I replaced with the proper album version.