https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:01:19 +0000 Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:53:55 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1358 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64073&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64073 Author: Paul C
Subject: 1358
Posted: 28 November 2023 at 9:53am

davidclark wrote: Great song. Just now discovering it - I don't recall it having been played on CHUM at the time.

The song reached #26 on the CHUM chart, so they must have
played it.

It was the first Top 40 hit to contain the S-word. Clive Davis
says in his autobiography that Columbia did not supply radio
stations with an edited version. Stations that played it
either made their own edit or played it with the word intact.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:53:55 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64073&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64073 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64069&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64069 Author: GregY
Subject: 1358
Posted: 28 November 2023 at 7:12am

The 2013 box set 'The Complete Album Collection Vol. One' had 2 CDs called "Side Tracks" as the final 2 discs in the set, but only the acoustic version of GJ is on there.

Edited by GregY]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:12:43 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64069&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64069 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64068&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64068 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 1358
Posted: 27 November 2023 at 8:53pm

In checking over at Qobuz, both the Big Band Version and
the Acoustic Version appear on a collection called "Side
Tracks."]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:53:42 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64068&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64068 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64067&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64067 Author: davidclark
Subject: 1358
Posted: 27 November 2023 at 7:59pm

Great song. Just now discovering it - I don't recall it having been played on
CHUM at the time.

Even though the BIg Band Version has the lowest matrix # (therefore usually
considered the a-side), Whitburn books show the Acoustic Version as the a-
side.

Edited by davidclark]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:59:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=64067&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#64067 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=54723&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#54723 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 1358
Posted: 13 June 2020 at 10:24am

The big band uncensored version of the song appears on a 2020 CD set titled the Japanese Singles Collection. The two disc set includes tracks from 1965-1985 released on 45s in Japan (so some of the US singles are omitted).]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:24:01 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=54723&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#54723 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34705&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34705 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 1358
Posted: 22 July 2012 at 8:15am

WXYG/540 Sauk Rapids-St. Cloud, MN was halfway through the first verse of the Big Band version when I happened upon it during an AM radio bandscan this morning. Even though the 250-watter runs a fairly deep classic album rock playlist, it still came as a surprise, as I hadn't heard "George Jackson" over broadcast radio since 1971.

St. Cloud is a college town in a very conservative area (U.S. Rep: Michelle Bachmann) and WXYG's local owner signed his first station on the air there way back in 1963. I couldn't wait to hear whether or not the track would air intact.

It did.

]]> Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:15:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34705&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34705 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34574&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34574 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 1358
Posted: 07 July 2012 at 7:45am

Thanks for the heads up Jeff. This fairly new release is also available on vinyl and apparently is a companion piece to a book with the same title. I've never heard of Light In The Attic Records, but the sample on Amazon sounds like the original acoustic version.]]> Sat, 07 Jul 2012 07:45:04 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34574&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34574 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34573&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34573 Author: JL328
Subject: 1358
Posted: 07 July 2012 at 6:42am

According to the track listing, the acoustic version of "George Jackson"
(running 3:41) appears on a CD called "Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power
1967-74."

Looks like this is a brand new 2012 release from Light in the Attic Records,
which I know nothing about except that it appears to be based in Seattle.

Does anyone know anything about this?]]> Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:42:23 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34573&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34573 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34512&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34512 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 1358
Posted: 24 June 2012 at 12:53pm

Thanks for the quick response Aaron. Thanks to the newest forum member Kerry I not only heard the edit but even verified it was the acoustic version they played on AT40 (at least on the show from 1/8/72). Thanks again Kerry.

Edited by Santi Paradoa]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:53:20 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34512&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34512 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34510&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34510 Author: mstgator
Subject: 1358
Posted: 24 June 2012 at 11:55am

AT40 engineer Bill Hergenson created his own custom version by editing
out the "sh" sound, so AT40 listeners heard the line as "He wouldn't take it
from no one." (As told by Hergenson himself in Pete Battistini's wonderful
book American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970s).)]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:55:47 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1358&PID=34510&title=bob-dylan-george-jackson#34510