https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 04 May 2026 03:01:09 +0000 Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:50:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4718 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=4718&PID=45985&title=prince-purple-rain#45985 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4718
Posted: 29 July 2016 at 10:50pm

MMathews wrote: I was wondering if such an edit was ever serviced (like from TM Century) or are these stations just playing a custom edit fed to them by the parent conglomerate?

I have "Purple Rain" on TM's GoldDisc 132 (the first issue with red
font), and the disc has both the single length and full album version.
The single length on this disc runs longer than the actual 45 by about
10 seconds, but they corrected this error on the GoldDisc3 issue (black
font), where it runs about 4:04.

Edited by aaronk]]> Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:50:50 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=45985&title=prince-purple-rain#45985 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=45974&title=prince-purple-rain#45974 Author: Hykker
Subject: 4718
Posted: 27 July 2016 at 5:22pm

995wlol wrote: Did any other stations around the country play the long version during its chart run?

I took a cross country road trip in Sept. '84 and remember
hearing the album version on a few stations (though I don't
recall which ones anymore).
I was doing a weekend shift on Q-106 in Claremont, N.H.
(maybe it was still WECM then) that
summer and we'd play the album version at night.


Edited by Hykker]]> Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:22:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=45974&title=prince-purple-rain#45974 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=45969&title=prince-purple-rain#45969 Author: MMathews
Subject: 4718
Posted: 26 July 2016 at 11:22pm

Oh yes... edits of this.

The one the oldies station here plays is very similar to
one I heard when I lived in NY. I can't tell the exact
time because I always hear it in the car. It sounds like
it's more or less the single length, but then edits to the
finale/cold end. Must be a smooth edit because I can
never tell quite where it is.

I was wondering if such an edit was ever serviced (like
from TM Century) or are these stations just playing a
custom edit fed to them by the parent conglomerate? ]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:22:31 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=45969&title=prince-purple-rain#45969 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=45967&title=prince-purple-rain#45967 Author: JFive
Subject: 4718
Posted: 26 July 2016 at 5:26pm

I believe I have this Q107 edit and I agree, it does
sound good. To recreate, cut 3:50 through 5:15 on the
downbeat then fade 6:57 through 7:07. Final length ends
up being 5:42.]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:26:21 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=45967&title=prince-purple-rain#45967 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36412&title=prince-purple-rain#36412 Author: DJghr1
Subject: 4718
Posted: 13 January 2013 at 8:04am

Q-107 in Washington, D.C. played a custom mix which took the complete 45 version (up to about 3:45, right up to the word "rain") and tagged on the ending finale (starting about 5:11) of the LP version. They pretty much got the meat & bones of the song, sounded pretty good.

Edited by DJghr1]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:04:16 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36412&title=prince-purple-rain#36412 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36410&title=prince-purple-rain#36410 Author: NightAire
Subject: 4718
Posted: 12 January 2013 at 6:26pm

KELI in Tulsa played the long version on Friday and Saturday nights, but I don't know if that really "counts" because they played the 12" mixes of the hits every Friday and Saturday night(7pm - midnight, as I remember).

The rest of the week, they played the edits (including, in this case, the 7" edit of "Purple Rain").

Actually, I'm not aware of them playing the 12" of "Purple Rain;" what they played on Friday and Saturday nights was the full album version.]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:26:31 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36410&title=prince-purple-rain#36410 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36402&title=prince-purple-rain#36402 Author: 995wlol
Subject: 4718
Posted: 11 January 2013 at 7:38pm

Here in Minneapolis, WLOL played a version of Purple Rain that faded out around the 6:15 mark. WLOL started charting the song about a month ahead of its Hot 100 debut, so I suppose there was no 7" edit at the time. As far as I can remember they always stuck with the longer version. Did any other stations around the country play the long version during its chart run?]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:38:20 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36402&title=prince-purple-rain#36402 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36401&title=prince-purple-rain#36401 Author: chendagam
Subject: 4718
Posted: 11 January 2013 at 5:04pm

Thanks Aaron...now to find out about those 7" edits...probably just additional early fades.]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:04:30 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36401&title=prince-purple-rain#36401 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36386&title=prince-purple-rain#36386 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4718
Posted: 09 January 2013 at 8:51pm

My copy times out to 7:03 and is an early fade of the LP version. The fade starts at 6:45 and ends just before Prince starts "hooooo-ing" at 7:03.]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:51:50 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36386&title=prince-purple-rain#36386 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36379&title=prince-purple-rain#36379 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4718
Posted: 09 January 2013 at 5:27pm

I'll let you know ASAP if the actual time matches the printed time of the
12". ]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:27:11 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4718&PID=36379&title=prince-purple-rain#36379