https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 08 May 2026 07:45:12 +0000 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:22:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2895 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=2895&PID=44567&title=couldnt-get-it-right#44567 Author: The Hits Man
Subject: 2895
Posted: 28 October 2015 at 3:22pm

The best place to find the single version of this song is
on the album from which it came.]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:22:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=44567&title=couldnt-get-it-right#44567 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=44556&title=couldnt-get-it-right#44556 Author: KentT
Subject: 2895
Posted: 26 October 2015 at 9:03pm

US Sire Promo (ABC distributed) has a mono side (folded
down) and the single tracked first verse. ]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:03:04 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=44556&title=couldnt-get-it-right#44556 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=44512&title=couldnt-get-it-right#44512 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 2895
Posted: 16 October 2015 at 6:47pm

Still love this song. At one point, I borrowed a friend's bass just so I could teach myself to play the bassline. It's one of the easier basslines in the pop world.

The original 45 and LP versions didn't have any harmonies on the opening lines.

The first CD to include the song was Rhino's Billboard Top Hits 1977 (1991), where it runs 3:15. It sounds pretty good, but it's a previously unreleased mix that narrows the soundstage and includes harmonies on the opening lines. The differences are subtle, so it's no surprise that it went undetected for so many years. There are other previously unreleased mixes that first appeared on the Billboard Top Hits discs, including "Ring My Bell", "Heaven Is A Place On Earth", and "Wild Wild West".

The following discs all use the same analog transfer as Billboard Top Hits 1977:

• Rhino's Have A Nice Day Vol. 19 (1993; digitally identical)
• Time-Life's Guitar Rock Vol. 3 1976-1977 (1993; left/right channels reversed - avoid)
• Rhino's Mellow Rock Hits Ventura Highway (1997; digitally identical)
• Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 24 1977 (1997; digitally exactly 1 dB quieter)
• Madacy's Rock On 1977 Dance Dance Dance (1998)

There's a different analog transfer on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 17 1977 Take Two (1991), which chops off the first 0.02 seconds of the intro, and fades early to 3:02. There's an RE-1 rereissue of this disc, which is digitally exactly 1.9 dB louder than the original released (no RE-1 in the matrix number). Avoid these for this song.

There's another analog transfer on Disky UK's 8-CD Wow That Was The 70's (1999), which is a tiny bit compressed compared to the others, and fades a little early to around 3:09. Avoid.

If you have to have this previously unreleased mix on CD, go for Rhino's Billboard Top Hits 1977 (1991).

Edited by crapfromthepast]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:47:24 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=44512&title=couldnt-get-it-right#44512 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=20037&title=couldnt-get-it-right#20037 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 2895
Posted: 06 December 2008 at 8:11am

Steve:

It says ©1976 Sire records, Inc. Manufactured and distributed by GRT of Canada Ltd., 3816 Victoria Pk. Ave.,
Willowdale, Ontario.

]]> Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:11:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=20037&title=couldnt-get-it-right#20037 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=20036&title=couldnt-get-it-right#20036 Author: Hykker
Subject: 2895
Posted: 06 December 2008 at 7:44am

eriejwg wrote: Just got a 2 sided white label stereo promo 45 on this one, distributed by GRT of Canada.

Was this an original 1977 release or a later re-issue? Stereo/stereo promos were the exception in the U.S. in the 70s, AM music radio hung on longer in Canada (mostly due to government content restrictions for FMs) so you'd think labels would have continued mono promo copies longer there if anything.

Any American Sire promos I've ever seen had the same yellow label as the commercial copies with promotional notation and mono/stereo (or mix differences in the 80s) info added.]]> Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:44:47 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=20036&title=couldnt-get-it-right#20036 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=20032&title=couldnt-get-it-right#20032 Author: aaronk
Subject: 2895
Posted: 05 December 2008 at 10:22pm

Just revisited this song. I notice that there is another double-tracked vocal in the first verse on the "neither" version. The words "restless feeling" are double-tracked on the "neither" CDs, but not on the 45. Also, listening carefully in headphones, the mix is ever-so-slightly different between the two. I don't hear any different instrumentation, but the placement of instruments (left, center, right) is slightly changed on the "neither" mix.]]> Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:22:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=20032&title=couldnt-get-it-right#20032 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13534&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13534 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 2895
Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:26am

Just got a 2 sided white label stereo promo 45 on this one, distributed by GRT of Canada.

Deadwax is 1147-736-S1. No harmony or double tracked vocal.
Listed time is 3:14, actual is 3:16. On the label, says from the Sire Records LP
Gold Plated.]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:26:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13534&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13534 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13427&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13427 Author: jimct
Subject: 2895
Posted: 09 December 2007 at 3:44pm

Thanks, Pat, for all the time and trouble involved with you listening to all of the CDs, and I will now pick up that "Gold Plated" Fuel 2000 release. I also appreciate your info about the decline of the "Fuel 2000" label. I was always happy with the pieces I'd purchased, and had no idea they'd turned into a "Dominion"-type label - I will now steer clear of them.

Edited by jimct]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:44:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13427&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13427 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13425&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13425 Author: Brian W.
Subject: 2895
Posted: 09 December 2007 at 2:10pm

Yay!]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:10:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13425&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13425 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13424&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13424 Author: Pat Downey
Subject: 2895
Posted: 09 December 2007 at 1:31pm

Just completed reviewing every cd in the database that contains this song and only 1 cd has the correct version. Believe it or not that cd is the reissue of the "Gold Plated" album on the Fuel 2000 label back in 2005. For those of you that have not followed the Fuel 2000 label releases, they have now turned into what the old Dominion label used to be i.e. reissues of rerecordings and live recordings, primarily junk.]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:31:15 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2895&PID=13424&title=couldnt-get-it-right#13424