https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:56:35 +0000 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:16:32 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4937 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=4937&PID=65631&title=les-crane-desiderata#65631 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 4937
Posted: 14 January 2025 at 7:16pm

Amazing Cris. Many thanks amigo.]]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:16:32 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65631&title=les-crane-desiderata#65631 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65630&title=les-crane-desiderata#65630 Author: cristianmdp
Subject: 4937
Posted: 14 January 2025 at 6:31pm

It was released on CD in 1997:
https://www.discogs.com/release/31922716

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3-Y4Womd8

]]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:31:53 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65630&title=les-crane-desiderata#65630 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65629&title=les-crane-desiderata#65629 Author: cristianmdp
Subject: 4937
Posted: 14 January 2025 at 6:22pm

No idea why would anyone would want to hear "Desiderata"
in spanish (lol), but I can say the spanish version of it
was the only version played on the radio down here in
Argentina (and I have a copy of it).
This one: https://www.discogs.com/release/23232440
Makes sense. It's a spoken word single that was recorded
in english. People would not understand its words in a
spanish-speaking country so someone decided to record
someone else reading it in spanish. The choir though is
the original one, sung in english.
And I have never known of any CD featuring the spanish
version.
]]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:22:15 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65629&title=les-crane-desiderata#65629 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65627&title=les-crane-desiderata#65627 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 4937
Posted: 14 January 2025 at 6:10pm

6 years later, since Andy's commercial 45 starts with a
clean intro, is it possible that the 45 version with the
bad edit is a first pressing and they corrected it later
with a different pressing?]]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:10:57 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65627&title=les-crane-desiderata#65627 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65626&title=les-crane-desiderata#65626 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 4937
Posted: 14 January 2025 at 1:48pm

"Desiderata" was released on a promo 45 with one side in English and one side in Spanish. Has anyone ever found the Spanish version on CD?

Ok I'll beat you to it. Why would anyone want to hear this is Spanish?]]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:48:47 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=65626&title=les-crane-desiderata#65626 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50974&title=les-crane-desiderata#50974 Author: AndrewChouffi
Subject: 4937
Posted: 15 January 2019 at 5:25am

My stock 45 of "Desiderata" (green label 7520 - matrix PCA0553 S) is stereo and has a clean start.

Andy]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:25:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50974&title=les-crane-desiderata#50974 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50970&title=les-crane-desiderata#50970 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 4937
Posted: 14 January 2019 at 9:39pm

As jrjr mentioned upthread, the 45 does start with an off-kilter edit, but it's because the vocals in the left and right channels aren't in sync at that exact spot. They begin in the right channel a hair before they do in the left, and if you trim both channels to where the left channel vocal kicks in, the result is a chopped-off intro. Consequently, there's a hanging chad of that album version note in the left channel's open, which, although it sounds a bit choppy, definitely sounds better than being Marie Antoinetted. In any case, the left channel does not begin with a clear harpsichord note (if that's what it is.)

It's the same on the mono side of the promo 45, but since the channels are summed together, it isn't all that obvious. Having only played the stereo side on mono AM back in the day, I never noticed that anything nefarious was underfoot.


The On The Radio Volume 3 CD track begins with a clear and distinct harpsichord note in the left channel, and both vocal tracks are in sync. Here's what the Varese folks did: they excised the initial "Desider..." from the 45's cold opening, then copied the next, similar "Desider..." segment that begins at about six seconds into the 45 (about 1.125 in length) and pasted it in place of the initial one. They did a seamless job, and it really does improve the edit.

However - as the official T40MOCD laws have long decreed - it ain't the 45.

]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:39:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50970&title=les-crane-desiderata#50970 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50968&title=les-crane-desiderata#50968 Author: davidclark
Subject: 4937
Posted: 13 January 2019 at 9:52pm

good catch, Ron.

So, we'd need a 45 to see if the start is clean, like it is on the CD
"Dick Bartley On The Radio Vol. 3". Anyone have?]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:52:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50968&title=les-crane-desiderata#50968 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50960&title=les-crane-desiderata#50960 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 4937
Posted: 12 January 2019 at 9:57pm

After 10+ years of dormancy...

Not sure what the opening note of the actual 45 sounds like.

The 45 version on Varese Sarabande's Dick Bartley On The Radio Vol. 3 (1998) starts really cleanly. Same for Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 31 Mellow Hits Of The '70s (2000), which is digitally exactly 2 dB quieter.

The corresponding location in the LP version (I have it on Reader's Digest's 4-CD American Pie (1998)) has the tail end of a long note held from the 18-second intro. The Varese 45 version can't be edited down from the LP version because of that note.

I'm not sure exactly what to do with that information.]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2019 21:57:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=50960&title=les-crane-desiderata#50960 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=22272&title=les-crane-desiderata#22272 Author: bwolfe
Subject: 4937
Posted: 18 May 2009 at 7:16am

Exactly right!
I found a never played promo copy at one of the stations we purchased a few years ago.
1971 seemed to be the end of spoken-word stuff until "The Americans" in 1974.
The only 1971 spoken word record that still stops me in my tracks is Tom Clay's "What the World Needs Now."
I was eight years old when I heard it back then and it still packs a lot of emotion.]]> Mon, 18 May 2009 07:16:21 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4937&PID=22272&title=les-crane-desiderata#22272