https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 08 May 2026 05:50:02 +0000 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:16:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1575 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=1575&PID=45129&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45129 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 1575
Posted: 01 March 2016 at 7:16pm

Paul Haney wrote: Too bad I can't recall which version I heard on KDWB back in the day:)

That's actually an interesting question, Paul. When the KDWB-FM studios moved from the AM transmitter site in Woodbury to downtown Minneapolis in 1988, followed by the AM eight months later, the 45s library was left behind in "suburban Eau Claire." The library comprised original promo and stock 45s, dating back to the 1969 fire, as well as reissue 45s acquired circa 1985 for the AM's oldies format. Because the library's 45s covered both stations' formats, I asked my FM counterpart if he needed them, and he said to take 'em. He didn't have to ask twice. :) (The Sheriff and Moving Pictures retro-hits were the only two needed for re-dubbing, anyway.)

Along with the 45s came two card file boxes, containing index cards for each title, and the one for the Rivers tune lists the title as "Slow Dancin" under #2632. Was it the Soul City mono promo? Well, some of the file numbers were used twice, and, unfortunately, the "other" #2632 (Terry Stafford's "Suspicion," on the pink Collectables label...ugh) was the only one still on the shelves. Just before we moved the AM out, several FM jocks came to pick through the 45s for a 1976 class reunion dance they were emceeing, and those never made it back in the stacks. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where the Rivers record ended up. :(

It's possible KDWB might have played the Soul City mono promo I mailed to them... if they ever "got it." I lost count of the number of times I pulled fifty copies of one of our top albums from warehouse stock at Heilichers, cut the corners and sent them to KDWB for giveaways and received "we never got them" replies. If they ended up beating the competition by actually giving them all away, fine, but c'mon. The labels knew what was really going on and began requiring purchase authorizations in advance before accepting promotional chargebacks from stock.

So I don't know which Rivers version those scoundrels aired, either. ;)

Edited by Yah Shure]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:16:22 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=45129&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45129 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=45124&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45124 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 1575
Posted: 01 March 2016 at 3:15pm

Thanks to Yah Sure for sending me a digital copy. The edit sounds fine to my ears. Too bad I can't recall which version I heard on KDWB back in the day:)]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:15:02 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=45124&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45124 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=45120&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45120 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 1575
Posted: 01 March 2016 at 1:34pm

Paul, your special order has shipped. ;)]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:34:40 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=45120&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45120 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=45119&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45119 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 1575
Posted: 01 March 2016 at 12:21pm

If anybody has a digital copy of the promo edit of "Swayin' To The Music", I'd love to hear it!

Edited by Paul Haney]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:21:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=45119&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#45119 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15498&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15498 Author: sriv94
Subject: 1575
Posted: 18 April 2008 at 11:11am

Todd Ireland wrote: Now, does anyone recall hearing or playing the short promo 45 edit of "Slow Dancin' (Swayin' to the Music)" on the radio?

Pretty sure WLS in Chicago played the radio edit (although I think they actually carted up the stock 45 version first, then switched).]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:11:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15498&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15498 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15497&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15497 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 1575
Posted: 18 April 2008 at 10:50am

I appreciate your scanned 45 label photos as always, Yah Shure. And it sounds like you might potentially have a valuable collector's item with that white label "Ashes and Sand" DJ 45!

Now, does anyone recall hearing or playing the short promo 45 edit of "Slow Dancin' (Swayin' to the Music)" on the radio?]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:50:53 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15497&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15497 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15491&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15491 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 1575
Posted: 17 April 2008 at 9:25pm

Jim, we seem to have been on the same page: the Soul City clocked in at 4:02.8, but (4:02) will suffice. Just as a point of clarification, the Soul City record was nationally distributed through independent distributors. The Big Tree deal moved the distribution to WEA.

The odd mono edit on "Slow Dancin'" wasn't the first questionable thing that Soul City had done. White label promo copies of the Rivers single that had preceded it by a few months ("Ashes And Sand," Soul City 007, #96) had just been sent to the distributors, when it was discovered that the wrong take had been used. The 150 copies our distributorship had been sent were quickly recalled... all but three copies, that is. :) The rest were destroyed, and the silver, black and white-labelled replacements arrived soon thereafter.

]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:25:44 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15491&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15491 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15489&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15489 Author: jimct
Subject: 1575
Posted: 17 April 2008 at 8:06pm

First off, Yah Shure, I was at like (4:01.9) on the actual time of my Big Tree commercial 45 for this, so I'm very comfortable going with the (4:02) you got on your pre-Big Tree Soul City 45 as well. I also believe your "iffy quality" short version comments are valid - so much so, my evidence is that when Big Tree picked the song up for national distribution, their promo 45 had the (listed 3:48; actual 4:02) version on BOTH sides of it, eschewing that Soul City early promo 45 short version entirely. Although FYI, we'd already gotten copies of this early promo 45 sent to our station some weeks earlier, so that shorter edit was indeed available as a 1977 radio airplay option. ]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:06:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15489&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15489 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15486&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15486 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 1575
Posted: 17 April 2008 at 4:56pm

Jim, I presume that your commercial 45 is the second issue with the longer "Swayin' To The Music" title (Big Tree 16094.) I have that also, along with two copies of the first issue on Soul City 008 as "Slow Dancin'." Here are the timings on the mono/stereo Soul City promo:

Mono - listed time (3:25), actual time (3:32).
Stereo - listed time (3:58), actual time (4:02).

I don't have the Big Tree promo, but the second edit at 2:43 on the mono Soul City promo sounds very awkward. Here are the edit points:

1. Delete intro segment from :06.369 to :11.909.
2. Delete segment from 2:43.264 to 3:09.802.

Although not "correct," for a more natural-sounding second edit in mono:

1. (same as #1 above)
2. Delete segment from 2:45.746 to 3:12.276.




Edited by Yah Shure]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:56:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15486&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15486 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15458&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15458 Author: jimct
Subject: 1575
Posted: 16 April 2008 at 12:23pm

My commercial 45 has a listed time of (3:58), but an actual time of (4:01).]]> Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:04 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1575&PID=15458&title=swayin-to-the-music-johnny-rivers#15458