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Posted: 31 March 2014 at 7:46pm

"Slow...slow...quick, quick...slow..."

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Posted: 31 March 2014 at 7:52pm

crapfromthepast wrote:

I seem to also remember "The Felony" by Fanatic making a second go-round around that time.

Other way around, of course. "The Fanatic" was pretty big in SoCal in '83 (where I lived at the time). Most folks don't realize that Felony went on to record & release additional material on indie labels through the '80s & early '90s, which are hard to find today. Have them all on cassette - pretty good stuff, actually...

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Posted: 31 March 2014 at 8:37pm

Stabilizers were from here in Erie, PA. 2 members of the
band, Dave Christensen and Rich Nevens are Facebook
friends. We played the early mixes (from cassette) of the
song "Underground" on K104 in Erie in 1984-1985. In
1985ish, they performed in front of folks in Erie with
Columbia Records in attendance. Rich and Dave were signed
and headed to California.

When the Stabilizers album was released, it went over
huge in Erie (of course) and in Minneapolis. It pretty
much bombed everywhere else. There was talk of material
for a 2nd album on a different label but not sure why
that never came to fruition.

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Posted: 01 April 2014 at 2:57am

"Red Red Wine" was brought back by Guy Zapoleon of KZZP-FM in Phoenix. A&M was reluctant to re-release the song as they were promoting the band's new single, "Breakfast In Bed". However, when other stations started adding "Red Red Wine" and the new single stiffed, A&M changed gears and re-promoted "Wine".

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Posted: 28 January 2015 at 6:17am

torcan wrote:

You're right, MCT1. Vinyl 45s were still considered "commercial" singles all through 1990. The rule change happened sometime before "I'll Be There for You" by the Rembrandts charted, but there was no note in Billboard.

A friend of mine who owns a record store in upstate NY stated that the head of the label that released "I'll Be There for You" didn't want it out on a 45 because then it would chart, and rather lowly since there was no cassette single. He was alerted that 45s no longer counted, so if he released one it wouldn't chart. He checked it out with Billboard and a few weeks later there was a 45 of the song.

The song eventually did chart when the follow-up was released and had "I'll Be There for You" on the B-side. It was still receiving significant airplay at the time.

Billboard also changed another Hot 100 rule in late 1991 without announcing it. Remember when they started going by Soundscan in Nov '91? Originally there was a 20-20 rule (20 weeks on and below position No. 20 and the song would be removed). After about a month, it was switched to a 20-40 rule (anything below the top 40 was removed). Those changes were announced.

Regarding your friend in upstate NY, it sounds as if he had access to a LOT more 45-rpm discs than here in Ontario. It almost sounds like they were a somewhat regularly though lightly stocked item in the 1990s. Whereas here, they were GONE as of April of 1990, unless you went to Toronto (and that was even slim pickings until they completely disappeared in 1992 there at Sam's)

There was a used shop in Hamilton and used ordered some 45s for me through the 90s, but even that was hit and miss.

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Posted: 28 January 2015 at 3:29pm

My Polydor whit label promo 45 has stock #PD 2091 80 NP 4980 with deadwax on the Long Version PD 2091.80NP. 4980-S-DW with a listed time of 4:29. Deadwax on Short Version side is PD 2091.80NP. 4980-SHORT-S-PW with a listed time of 3:43. This was a 1980 release.

At a CT radio station we had the longer version on a cart and it was only played on a Saturday night 70's show. The cart broke and I dubbed the Short Version onto another cart. The next week that cart broke and a couple of weeks later the 70's show was cancelled. In CT the Short Version was the popular version played on most stations.

The song recalls the true story of Benny dating a 16 year old girl. When her parents found out, they were forced to break up. IIRC, the source for this was American Top 40.

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Posted: 21 January 2019 at 3:08pm

As Benny tells it, the song "Into The Night" was not about a girl he dated, but rather a girl who lived in the same building as he did. This girl, along with her siblings, did chores/errands for Benny. She was in charge of walking his dog every morning. Benny's band mate and writing partner, Robert Tepper ("No Easy Way Out"), saw her walk into Benny's apartment one morning and said "Oh, my!" Benny's reply was, "She's just 16 years old. Leave her alone." They then proceeded to write the hit song that morning.

Here's an audio interview of Benny telling the full story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_UM8rcGe4

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Posted: 01 July 2020 at 1:50pm

Just revisiting this upon Benny's passing. Listen to "a heart" at 1:31 on the video version.

Benny's 1980 Video

That's different isn't it?

I always thought that the stock 45-rpm disc was the same as the radio edit, and that the screams were just faded off early, rather than removed. Was there a different Canadian 45?

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Posted: 01 July 2020 at 3:19pm

Jody Thornton wrote:

I always thought that the stock 45-rpm disc was the same
as the radio edit, and that the screams were just faded
off early, rather than removed. Was there a different
Canadian 45?

The 1980 US promo 45 version appeared on the 1980
Canadian commercial 45.

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Posted: 01 July 2020 at 4:13pm

Paul C wrote:

The 1980 US promo 45 version appeared on the 1980
Canadian commercial 45.

Thank you so much. I thought I was losing my mind. I couldn't remember where I ripped my MP3 from, and I didn't want to go searching. Plus that "a heart" at 1:31 is different on the 45-rpm promo version. It's what I was more familiar with.

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