dan baird "i love you period"

my cassingle issued as def american 18724 contains a non descibed version, on the A-side, which runs 4:24....the cassingle's sleeve does NOT state a version but the cassingle itself states the version is the "album version"......BUT.....this is a slightly edited version of the song from the cd

(S) (4:23) Def American 26999 Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired   


the first second and a half is edited off the cd version to start the song on the downbeat of the drum, and the song is faded for 0:01 to INCLUDE the guitar slide during the fade out, but not the beginning of the next track......aaron was kind enough to send me a wave file of the version of the song he has from a cd of his, but it ISN'T the correct version, either......his version edits off completely the guitar slide at the end....this info should be noted in the db.....i've also included a scan of the cassingle and sleeve as well

paul...i just sent you a mp3 file of the cassingle version for your review....let me know if any of the cds you have match the cassingle version.....thx

Thanks to some assistance from Ed who supplied me with an mp3 of his cassingle version as promised, I compared it to the version on the 1990 - #1 Radio Hits - 1994 CD and here's what I come up with...

The cassette single starts right at the point where the first snare drum hit begins. But on the #1 Radio Hits CD, approximately .3 seconds of a trailing keyboard note can be heard before the first snare drum hit begins, as I pointed out previously. In other words, it appears the audio engineer of the #1 Radio Hits disc tried to edit the album version to match the 45 version, but didn't quite manage to remove the entire keyboard note at the very beginning.

The cassette single and #1 Radio Hits CD are otherwise exactly the same until the very end when the CD fades out approximately :03 sooner than the cassette. As Ed pointed out, there is a final guitar slide on the cassingle before the song ends cold. This final guitar slide does not appear on the #1 Radio Hits disc due to the early fade.

My conclusion:

The #1 Radio Hits CD should have the comment: "edit of the LP version in an unsuccessful attempt at re-creating the 45 version".

The other database CDs containing "I Love You Period" should have an "LP version" comment next to them.

Currently, the database has the following comment regarding the cassette single:

(the cassette single states "album version" on the cassette but it is not the "album version" as it edits the introduction and fades sooner than the LP)

I'm not sure this description is entirely accurate because I'm under the impression the cassette fades out later, not sooner, than the LP. Pat, I will shoot out an mp3 copy of Ed's cassette single dub and try to get your opinion on all this as well.

Ed supplied me with a cassette single dub of "I Love You Period" and I can confirm it runs 4:24, as Ed pointed out in his initial post.