https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 05 May 2026 05:50:41 +0000 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:31:51 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3445 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=3445&PID=57939&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57939 Author: ChicagoBill
Subject: 3445
Posted: 14 April 2021 at 4:31pm

Do you think if we were a fly on the wall in the recording studio, it might have gone like this, George
Drakoulis (the Producer), "I know you guys are a great ROCK band and may be adverse to a horn arrangement,
but the great Otis Redding had horns in his, so can we try one with the horns?" Also, to go back to one of
the original question, I heard the 'Horn Remix' version on WLUP "The Loop". Sure, they were more a
AOR/Classic Rock station at the time, not top 40, but that's where I heard it. Especially my friend, Bob
Stroud would play it and the Otis Redding original on his "Rock 'N' Roll Roots" show at noon. -Bill.]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:31:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57939&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57939 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57938&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57938 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 3445
Posted: 14 April 2021 at 3:15pm

Every version of this song is excellent (including Otis'
original, Patti's cover, the Black Crowes' album version
and that cool remix). Funky catchy tune (ok now play it
loud!).]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:15:18 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57938&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57938 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57937&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57937 Author: aaronk
Subject: 3445
Posted: 14 April 2021 at 1:23pm

The "Remix" is my preferred version, FWIW. I love the added horns.]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:23:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57937&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57937 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57936&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57936 Author: ChicagoBill
Subject: 3445
Posted: 14 April 2021 at 10:42am

LunarLaugh wrote: Horn version posted on YT here. Boy, that is... different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Um_27x2DVg

I agree, it is different
from the LP version found on "Shake your money maker", but if you take a listen
to the ORIGINAL version done by Otis Redding released posthumously on 'The
Immortal Otis Redding', He has a very similar horn arrangement. This was
released on a single in 1968 (BB-#51). It was released also by Patti Drew a few
months later (BB-#93) and also has a similar horn arrangement (except hers adds
trombones in the beginning) so I would assume that the 'Horn Remix' version is
more faithfull to the original. -Bill.]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:42:36 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57936&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57936 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57935&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57935 Author: ChicagoBill
Subject: 3445
Posted: 14 April 2021 at 10:23am

crapfromthepast wrote: Bill - I'd heard that the WEA labels numbered their 45s backwards so that the new releases would appear at the top of the lists when they were printed out in numerical order. If that's true, then the numbering was done specifically *for* record store people! :)

Ron, Very
possible. I tried to get answers out of the WEA salesmen during the 80's, but they were as clueless as I. In
1989 I wrote to Ken Clee @ Stax-O-Wax who put out "The Directory of American 45 R.P.M. Records", and asked
him for his explanation, he couldn't get an 'official' answer. If it was a marketing move to get to the top
of a new release list, I would've thought that other major labels would have jumped on the wagon, but no.
Even their 'Back to Back' re-issue series ran backwards. -Bill.]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:23:23 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57935&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57935 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57920&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57920 Author: LunarLaugh
Subject: 3445
Posted: 13 April 2021 at 9:01am

Horn version posted on YT here. Boy, that is... different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Um_27x2DVg]]> Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:01:53 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57920&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57920 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57910&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57910 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 3445
Posted: 11 April 2021 at 7:49pm

ChicagoBill wrote: Why they released them in reverse numerical order, I have no clue. Maybe they did this just to confuse us record store people ;) -Bill

Bill - I'd heard that the WEA labels numbered their 45s backwards so that the new releases would appear at the top of the lists when they were printed out in numerical order.

If that's true, then the numbering was done specifically *for* record store people! :)]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:49:13 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57910&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57910 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57909&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57909 Author: ChicagoBill
Subject: 3445
Posted: 11 April 2021 at 6:34pm

Pat Downey wrote: Andy I have not seen the remix version of "Hard To Handle" show up anywhere on cd.

For those interested, the Remix version with horns has appeared on the new release of 'Shake your money maker'
by the Black Crowes, expanded edition. In fact there are 2 expanded editions. I guess it's a 30th anniversary
thing. Is it 30 years already?? -Bill. ]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:34:19 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=57909&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#57909 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=53261&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#53261 Author: MMathews
Subject: 3445
Posted: 10 January 2020 at 9:01pm

In NY, when the song was a re-current, the only station
I heard the remix on was Z100. I liked it, but had no
idea where to get it until i found the promo single in a
used CD store.
MM]]> Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:01:29 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=53261&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#53261 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=53251&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#53251 Author: ChicagoBill
Subject: 3445
Posted: 08 January 2020 at 8:44pm

Loveland wrote: crapfromthepast wrote: Two separate charts runs for this song, info from Billboard: Def American 4-19668, debut on 10/27/1990, peaked at #45 on 12/15/1990, 15 weeks total on chart Def American 4-19245, debut on 6/22/1991, peaked at #26 on 8/17/1991, 14 weeks total on chart I'm pretty sure that the 19245-4 single was issued first in 1990, while the 19668-4 single was (re)issued in 1991.

   I tend to disagree. I think crapfromthepast had it correct getting the info from Billboard. In the Fall of 1982 the WEA group of labels (Warner-Elektra-Atlantic and their subsidiaries of which Def American was one of dozens) started numbering their single releases in reverse. So 19245-4 was released after 19668-4. Why they released them in reverse numerical order, I have no clue. Maybe they did this just to confuse us record store people ;) -Bill. ]]> Wed, 08 Jan 2020 20:44:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3445&PID=53251&title=black-crowes-hard-to-handle#53251