https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 05 May 2026 15:02:33 +0000 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:06:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9448 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=9448&PID=56235&title=three-degrees-maybe#56235 Author: AutumnAarilyn
Subject: 9448
Posted: 16 October 2020 at 9:06pm

Big Break records in the UK released a nice double disc
set in 2012 covering their complete recordings at the
Roulette label.

https://www.discogs.com/The-Three-Degrees-
Maybe/release/3957690]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:06:56 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9448&PID=56235&title=three-degrees-maybe#56235 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9448&PID=56231&title=three-degrees-maybe#56231 Author: ChicagoBill
Subject: 9448
Posted: 16 October 2020 at 9:58am

'Maybe' this will help (pun!). I have the 'Complete Swan
Recordings' on Sequel U.K. NEM CD 631 (1992) in which it
is 2:17.5 and Mono except for a little more bottom end
in the left channel (re-channeled?) and licensed through
Roller Coaster (dubious?). I then listened to my 45 RPM
single, Roulette 7079 Mono (4:08) and compared it to my
'Roulette Years', also on Sequel U.K. NEM CD 753 (1996)
licensed through EMI Special Markets, mastered at Abbey
Road Studios and that times out to 3:38. To my untrained
ears it seems they cut :20 seconds out of the intro
(rap) from 1:51 down to a 1:31 intro. -Bill.



Edited by ChicagoBill]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:58:12 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9448&PID=56231&title=three-degrees-maybe#56231 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9448&PID=56230&title=three-degrees-maybe#56230 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 9448
Posted: 16 October 2020 at 7:40am

One more detail:

The Three Degrees released an earlier song called "Maybe" in 1965 on Swan Records S-4245. No album from 1965, just a 45. The 1965 song is completely different from the 1970 song, even though they were both written and produced by Richard Barrett. The 1965 Swan 45 has a printed time of 2:19 and runs pretty close to that.

Under the 1965 listing, Discogs also shows a single-sided acetate from Bell Sound Studios, with a hand-written time of 3:35 on the label. I don't know what to make of that, since the song only runs about 2:19. It could be a huge timing error by whoever wrote the time on the label, or could actually be an acetate from 1970/71 with the later version of the song and the 3:37 edit from the Rhino disc. Here's the Discogs listing for the acetate. I dunno.]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:40:46 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9448&PID=56230&title=three-degrees-maybe#56230 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9448&PID=56229&title=three-degrees-maybe#56229 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 9448
Posted: 16 October 2020 at 7:24am

"Maybe" wasn't a big hit for the Three Degrees, peaking only at #29 in 1970.

The LP version runs 5:36 and is found on just one US CD - Marsil Productions/Sony Music's Always And Forever. It's pretty obscure. I don't own it.

The 45 version runs 4:07 and is also found on just one US CD - Rhino's multi-CD Can You Dig It (2001). This is a terrific set, in my opinion, but pricey.

And finally, there's a 3:37 version on Rhino's Didn't It Blow Your Mind Vol. 2 (1991), and a few other compilations that likely base their masterings on this disc.

This 3:37 version deletes 0:00-0:07 and 0:41-1:04 of the 45 version. This odd edit severely trims the spoken intro and makes it sound like the bass player missed a few beats.

I was baffled why this even exists. It's not a promo 45 edit; the promo 45s are the same as the commercial 45s. Rhino would never have deliberately edited the song this way if a tape didn't already exist.

I think I may have found the source of this 3:37 edit. There's a 4-song EP released in Brazil in 1971 (a year after "Maybe" was a hit), with catalog number RCA ‎ROD-21001. The EP includes "I Do Take You", "You're The Fool", "Sugar On Sunday", and "Maybe". The orange RCA label has a printed time of 3:40 for "Maybe". Here's a Discogs listing for the EP. I can't confirm that the 3:37 edit is what really appears on this EP, but it makes me feel better knowing that the edit may have originated on a real record somewhere in the world, rather than on a Rhino disc in 1991.]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:24:05 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9448&PID=56229&title=three-degrees-maybe#56229