"Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime"

I just found a promo copy of the 45 for this song that runs 4:13 both sides. Were all the commercial copies 3:49 or did some run 4:13?

This song rarely turns up on compilations, so I assumed
it was on an indie label. Nope, the Korgis were on
Asylum here in the US. "Everybody's Got To Learn
Sometime" got lost in the shuffle in the US, buried under
the Linda Ronstadt, Eagles and Jackson Browne records on
Asylum that commanded the label's attention in 1980.

The LP version runs 4:09 on EMI UK's 2-CD Now The
Millennium Series 1980 (1999), and there's a
differently EQ'd digital clone on Time-Life's 2-CD
Classic Soft Rock Vol. 2 Ride Like The Wind
(2006). Both of these are likely source from a pre-1999
CD, but I don't know which one. The same analog transfer
is used on EMI UK's 2-CD Best Of 1980-1981 (2003).
All three sound good, with no clipping, good EQ, no
excessive compression/limiting, and no evidence of noise
reduction.

The LP version on EMI Australia's 5-CD Eighties
Complete Vol. 2 (1999) fades about 7 seconds more
quickly than the above two.

The LP version on Then Totally Oldies Vol. 7 The 80s
Again replaces the first note, as noted above. Not
cool! Avoid.

Using the Time-Life disc as my source, the editing
instructions are simple for recreating the 45 edit:

Segment 1:
Extends from 0:00.0 to 3:14.8 of the 45 edit and the LP
version.
Ends on the first snare hit after the break.

Remove the 32 beats from 3:14.8 to 3:40.7 of the LP
version.

Segment 2:
Extends from 3:14.8 to 3:46.4 (end) of the 45 edit.
Extends from 3:40.7 to 4:12.3 (end) of the LP version.

Your mixdown will run 3:43 without outro silence, 3:46.4
with outro silence, and a single edit at 3:14.8.

Just so you know, there's a rerecorded version out there,
which was done for the This World's For Everyone
in 1992. The opening keyboard tones are different than
the 1980 version. I think this is the version that turns
up on the UK's 2-CD Sampled Vol. 1 (2000), where
it runs about 3:37.

"DJ copies of this 45 run (4:13)"

Does this mean that the DJ / promo version matches the LP version, or did it actually add 4 seconds? Does anybody know if it was a different mix or had different lyrics?

A listener requested this and I don't remember ever hearing it... it's fantastic! I want to be sure to get the "radio" version into rotation.

Gene, if you click on the additional images on Discogs for
the edit, you'll see there was a stereo side for the 3:49
edit.

I remember playing this song in 1980 at an adult
contemporary station when it came out but I don't remember
if it was the edit or the full length version.

Gary wrote: I just found a promo copy of the 45 for this song that runs 4:13 both sides. Were all the commercial copies 3:49 or did some run 4:13?

I just timed my promo. Listed 3:49, actual 3:46.