Bob Welch-"Hot Love, Cold World"

Pat, I recently acquired a bunch of new 45's, and I'm currently updating all of my new 70's findings, in chronological order. But since this song has bumped up, I will update this one now. I must apologize to you for an initial "bum steer". Always buying new songs the day that Billboard added them to the Hot 100, I was again unknowingly sold "old stock", regarding "Hot Love, Cold World", the same way I was with both "Movin' Out" and "I Can't Stand It". I had re-filed my 45 copy immediately after originally posting my "listed (3:39), actual (3:38)" info. Finally now able to re-pull it, Hykker's initial response to me was correct; I was sold a copy in mid-1978, with "Sentimental Lady" on the flip - I had never known that this was the case before. I have just acquired the "hit" 45 version (I happen to get a listed 3:35; actual 3:32 timing), with deadwax of "S45-93434", with an "A" overwritten over a "B", then "S45". Still, the deadwax info from my initial post remains eerily similar. I guess the tipoff, besides the flip, is that the "hit" 45 version has the dark purple Capitol label, whereas the one with the "Sentimental Lady" flip has the earlier, orange-colored Capitol label. Pat, my sincere apologies to both you and to everyone, for thinking what I was sold back in 1978 was the "hit" version. Man, the manager at my local "Mom and Pop" was apparently VERY aware of all flip sides, and he was obviously intent on using up his "existing store stock" copies first, with yours truly the occasional victim of being sold an earlier, non-hit stock # 45 copy!

Edited by jimct

Todd, I am saying that there was only one version of the 1978 "hit remix" release, Capitol 4588, which we've been calling the "short 45 version", released in June 1978. The 45 version I had originally reported on, in error, was the LP Version of "Hot Love, Cold World", issued as the flip side of his "Sentimental Lady" 45, on Capitol 4479, originally released in October 1977. This earlier issue of "Hot Love, Cold World" was not the hit side of this single - "Sentimental Lady" was, and, in my opinion, any and all references to a "long 45 version" for "Hot Love, Cold World" should be removed from the database, as this was simply an earlier, non-hit version of what was later to become a Top 40 hit in a "remixed" form.