Cars "Tonight She Comes" -- run time?

Jim, the credit goes to Ed for his extra-sharp ears on this one. But don't be too hard on yourself, either. While the first wind chime and gong or two are relatively easily heard, the latter two-thirds or so of the tail end are very faint. As your station's official carter, you would have to have drawn the line on this ending. I had to normalize the tail end in order to hear all of it, and when the trail-out groove kicked in, it was one of those moments when one curses for having had the cans cranked.

Your PD and fellow jocks would have formed an angry mob and had your official carter status revoked for having left in what, to their ears, would have sounded like dead air. Or worse: by the time the station's air chain finished with it, it would not have been pretty. :)

Todd Ireland wrote: FYI... "Tonight She Comes" fades out :11 early on the 1985 - Only Rock 'N Roll - 1989 CD (JCI 3128), thus eliminating most of the faint chimes at the end. Does anyone have the Cars Greatest Hits vinyl LP who can pass along the song's run time info? I'm curious to know if it runs 3:56 like the 45.

The actual running time of the song on the Cars Greatest Hits vinyl LP is (3:53), the listed time is "3:52" on the LP record label. (Elektra 60464-1)
So immediately, the next song starts from 3:53.45. on the Side Two of the vinyl LP. (Side Two-1. Tonight She Comes. Side Two-2. My Friend's Girl.)

--abagon

The database indicates (3:56) as the 45 runtime info. My commercial 45 runs (3:53), the listed time is "3:52" on the record label. My 45 is the same as the Greatest Hits vinyl LP. The matrix number etched on the runout groove is (STE-69589-A-1)

--abagon