https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:41:40 +0000 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:11:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=6164 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=6164&PID=37926&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37926 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 6164
Posted: 08 June 2013 at 1:11pm

Yeah, okay... maybe a tie was in order. :)

At least the "Jet" edit made it onto a real DJ 45. As did "Junior's Farm" later that year with the obvious dropout on the mono side. Were Cheech & Chong's hazy atmospheres wafting down the same hallway or something?]]> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:11:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37926&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37926 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37924&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37924 Author: Hykker
Subject: 6164
Posted: 08 June 2013 at 11:16am

Yah Shure wrote: 4) Jim was correct: we now know who won Grammy's Worst Vinyl Editing categories for 1974 and 1978.

I dunno..."Jet" was certainly a major contender in '74.]]> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:16:03 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37924&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37924 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37913&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37913 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 6164
Posted: 07 June 2013 at 3:36pm

Oh, wow, man. That's a bummer, man.

Y'know, you were right, Jim: you never would've forgiven yourself if you'd passed on it. Bad as the edit turned out to be, at least you have a real rarity.

A really bad rarity, but a real rarity, nonetheless. ;)

Thanks very much for getting to the bottom of this mystery. In view of the TP edit's awfulness, I'll offer a few additional theories:

1) The edit was seriously considered for use on the probably-cancelled DJ 45 until it was auditioned for the artists, themselves. Tommy Chong's reaction upon hearing it: "Hey! You ruined my record, man!" Edit cancelled.

2) This TP - like the later ABBA TP - was floated to radio as an opinion-gathering vehicle. Radio spoke and the labels listened. The 3:15 edit was tossed.

3) Uh........... I forgot what I was gonna say, man.

4) Jim was correct: we now know who won Grammy's Worst Vinyl Editing categories for 1974 and 1978.

5) Paul Haney wins the grand prize (one complimentary punch on his Don Leary's Record Club card) and receives Milton Bradley's home edition of the Name That Edit game! Batteries not included.

6) The entire panel participates in a syndicated version of Name That Edit. The show is cancelled less than three minutes and fifteen seconds into its first airing.

7) Convinced that the concept still has hit potential, Fox retools the syndicated fiasco and re-releases it as a reality series: Name That Edit: Island Records. The panelists are divided into two tribes: Stereo and Mono. Rifts develop between the various DJ 45 version, commercial 45 version, 12-inch version, LP version and neither/nor factions. Tensions flare as participants are forced to survive on styrene kibble salvaged from abandoned jukeboxes and landfilled cutouts strewn about the island. Hykker unearths a rare promo copy of "Idol With The Golden Head" by the Coasters (Atco 6098), and then..... and then..... and then attempts to designate it as the official immunity idol. In a stunning turn of events. his tribemates vote him off the island because the record had fallen well short of the top 40. The show is an overnight sensation (hit record) and shows no signs of letting up in its eleventh season.

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Seriously, this one's been a fun ride. Thanks again, Jim!   ]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:36:20 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37913&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37913 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37912&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37912 Author: jimct
Subject: 6164
Posted: 07 June 2013 at 2:33pm

Paul, that was one *heck* of a deduction! Major kudos to you!!!!!! No wonder
(we hope) Mr. Whitburn pays you the big bucks! :)]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:33:18 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37912&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37912 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37911&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37911 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 6164
Posted: 07 June 2013 at 12:53pm

jimct wrote: (And Gordon's not gonna be happy, either.)

Jim, you're right about that. Perhaps this guy should have moved over to Columbia Records, where he could have edited the latest Barbra Streisand record by taking out ... ya know.. the parts she sings on, and leave the rest in for the audience to hear.

Nuts, man!]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:53:24 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37911&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37911 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37910&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37910 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 6164
Posted: 07 June 2013 at 12:18pm

Paul Haney wrote: Could it be just the song and the first bit of the skit ("you ruined my record, man, I just bought it")???

Thanks for the details, Jim. Well, looks like that Haney guy was right:)]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:18:44 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37910&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37910 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37908&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37908 Author: jimct
Subject: 6164
Posted: 07 June 2013 at 11:39am

I have just received the TP from San Diego. I gave it a quick initial listen;
listed (3:15); actual (3:14). This edit makes the "Take A Chance On Me" TP
edit, that John describes above, sound like a Grammy winner. (And
Gordon's not gonna be happy, either.)

The TP short version starts exactly as the commercial 45 does. And,
except for when the record is "put back on the turntable", after the
comedy bit, at the very end, the entire Alice Bowie vocal portion is
included. Transition to comedy: the same. Then, the very start of the
comedy bit is included. But this absolutely horrendous version ends, after
"Dad" poorly removes the LP from the turntable, and the son yells out,
"HEY....you ruined my record, man - I just bought it." That's it. Ends cold.
It sounds atrocious! No radio station in their right mind would've ever
played this "short TP version." I think Steve's station was clearly on the
right track, with their in-house edit, where they shortened the Alice Bowie
segment, and left in the full comedy bit. Ode should've done the exact
same thing - a clear no-brainer. But they didn't.

Well, at least we now know where Ode's head was at (stoned, obviously) in
1974. I now think John's theory has major merit. That that the entire
promo 45 run was cancelled, and the whole radio world just ended up
getting stock copies shipped to them!]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:39:54 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37908&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37908 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37888&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37888 Author: aaronk
Subject: 6164
Posted: 04 June 2013 at 4:10pm

The main difference on the TP of the Abba song is the spoken parts being edited out.]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:10:01 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37888&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37888 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37885&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37885 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 6164
Posted: 04 June 2013 at 10:31am

do you recall what they edited out of this first test pressing for "Take a Chance on Me"? This is one song that I like to hear all the way through, I don't even care for the dj 45 version.]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:31:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37885&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37885 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37884&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37884 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 6164
Posted: 04 June 2013 at 8:43am

EdisonLite wrote: Yah Shure writes: "Well, there was that ABBA "Take A Chance On Me" test pressing (which thankfully never made it any further)" How did that differ from the edited promo 45s?

It's the (3:25) white-label test pressing discussed in the "Take A Chance On Me" thread.

That test pressing was a bit unusual, in that it was a test-marketing of the proposed DJ 45 for a track which had already been picking up some airplay as an LP cut for a number of weeks. Evidently, not everyone at Atlantic was convinced that their initial edit was their best shot for airplay. Why not ask some broadcasters what they thought? Enter the test pressing (mastered by Capitol in L.A. and pressed by Monarch.) Radio's response confirmed the label's doubts, with the initial edit being scrapped in favor of the one issued on the official DJ 45, mastered by Atlantic in New York.

In my opinion, the listener familiarity already gained through that early "LP cut" airplay may have been one of the factors in leading Atlantic to retool the DJ 45 to more closely resemble the album track.     ]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:43:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6164&PID=37884&title=earache-my-eye--cheech-chong#37884