https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 04 May 2026 14:58:57 +0000 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:30:09 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3385 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=3385&PID=60279&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#60279 Author: VWestlife
Subject: 3385
Posted: 23 February 2022 at 7:30pm

On the 12/3/1990 disc of "New Gold on CD with Dick Bartley", I found Westwood One's edit of "Tiny Dancer". It jumps from the first chorus (which, as mentioned above, is more than 2½ minutes into the song) to the last, with a total length of 3:18. It perserves the original ending and is even shorter than the official early-fade DJ edit, but feels like a lot of build-up for very little payoff.
]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:30:09 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=60279&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#60279 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57640&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57640 Author: VWestlife
Subject: 3385
Posted: 10 March 2021 at 10:53am

At 3:05 in this video you can hear a clip of a soundalike cover of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" by "The Realistics", whose solution to shorten the song was to abruptly skip over half of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u70QwdUCFc
]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:53:50 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57640&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57640 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57594&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57594 Author: LunarLaugh
Subject: 3385
Posted: 03 March 2021 at 12:28pm

Bill Cahill wrote: Some iHeartRadio stations play an edit of "Tiny Dancer" exactly as described here as it sounds silly to fade it as nobody remembers that. I wonder if Elton had a "no edit" clause in his contract, but Uni figured a "fade out" is not an edit, and only radio stations were supplied the fade out, stock copies were full length. K-Tel of course had no issue with editing "Levon".

It seems unlikely that Elton would have had such a
clause in his contract so early in his career. He only
had a small handful of hits to his credit at that time
and I'm sure any airplay was better than no airplay at
all to him. Of course, as the early 1970s rolled into
the mid 1970s, he became a mega-star. ]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:28:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57594&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57594 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57593&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57593 Author: Bill Cahill
Subject: 3385
Posted: 03 March 2021 at 5:51am

Some iHeartRadio stations play an edit of "Tiny Dancer" exactly as described here as it sounds silly to fade it as nobody remembers that. I wonder if Elton had a "no edit"
clause in his contract, but Uni figured a "fade out" is not an edit, and only radio stations were supplied the fade out, stock copies were full length. K-Tel of course had no
issue with editing "Levon".

Edited by Bill Cahill]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:51:23 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57593&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57593 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57544&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57544 Author: garye
Subject: 3385
Posted: 27 February 2021 at 5:21pm

You can do an edit like I did with Tiny Dancer by
letting the first part of the song go to 2:38 and then
edit the final two choruses starting with Hold Me closer
Tiny Dancer of the song which times out about 3:45.
A better edit than the silly fade on the promo.]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:21:45 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57544&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57544 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57542&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57542 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 3385
Posted: 27 February 2021 at 2:36pm

PS - Wow, I realized I brought back a thread that had its most recent post almost 13 years ago. This board really has been going on a while :)]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:36:00 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57542&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57542 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57541&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57541 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 3385
Posted: 27 February 2021 at 2:32pm

eriejwg wrote: I've never understood why the promo 45 of this song wasn't edited differently to include the beautiful ending that the 6:12 version has. Instead, just faded out...to 3:41.

Yeah, the promo 45 of Tiny Dancer just fading the song from the full 6:12 length to a length of 3:41 (excluding the cold ending) doesn't seem like a great way to go.

I just did my own custom edit - and kept the piano ending. It's funny I was listening to the song a week ago and noticed it takes until 2:33 to get to the start of Chorus 1! A time of 2:33 is longer than quite a few top 40 hits from the '60s and early '70s. Anyway, I did some edits and got the song from 6:14 to 4:54, which is still rather long for a 45 from the early '70s. But any more edits would have really not been good. In fact, when I just finished this, I thought, "If someone heard this edit back then, as the first time hearing the song, it would probably/hopefully sound fine (in terms of smooth edits) - but to all of us who have known the song as it is for the past 49 years [which is the whole world], it probably sounds bizarre - like, why is it missing sections? :)

Some people might consider editing long Elton John songs as sacrilege. But that aside, does anyone have (or maybe have personally made) custom edits for these long Elton singles that they can share:

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Levon
Honky Cat

I realize there's a slightly shorter fade for the single of Lucy in the Sky, but it only fades about 11 seconds of the song. These songs are all over 5 minutes (with Lucy being over 6 minutes). And it seems like there would be some custom edits of them somewhere along the way.

BTW, Gary just shared with me his custom edit of "Philadelphia Freedom" (4:06 instead of 5:19) and it's good.

One last comment - there's something non-intuitive, ironic and nonsensical about all this - at least from the point of view of an alien :) - If someone looked down and observed us taking songs we enjoy and going to all these efforts to hear LESS of them, it really doesn't make sense to many people.

But it does to those of us who like to hear compact, radio-length singles.

Edited by EdisonLite]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:32:23 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=57541&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#57541 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=15854&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#15854 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 3385
Posted: 02 May 2008 at 7:33am

eriejwg wrote: I've never understood why the promo 45 of this song wasn't edited differently to include the beautiful ending that the 6:12 version has. Instead, just faded out...to 3:41.

I've wondered this very same thing, John. There are other spots in the song that could've warranted an edit in order to preserve more of the instrumental ending.]]> Fri, 02 May 2008 07:33:50 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=15854&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#15854 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=15847&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#15847 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 3385
Posted: 01 May 2008 at 8:15pm

There were at least two different promo 45s for "Tiny Dancer." In addition to the 3:45/6:12 version, a 3:45 starred-side version was backed with "Razor Face," the stock B-side. This second variation had "SHORT VERSION" printed at the bottom of the label, and no production credits were listed.



]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 20:15:50 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=15847&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#15847 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=15845&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#15845 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 3385
Posted: 01 May 2008 at 6:25pm

Steve: The promo 45 is the LP version faded from about 3:35 to 3:41.]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 18:25:02 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3385&PID=15845&title=elton-johntiny-dancer#15845