Grass Roots-"Let’s Live For Today"

Pat: Someone recently mentioned on another Board that, from the 1:40-1:47 mark of this song, the lyric "feel you beside me" is repeated twice on the 45, but on the CD versions, during this same segment, the lyric is instead sung as "feel you deep inside (of) me," repeated twice as well. To confirm, I just listened to my original 45, as well as my Rhino 2-CD Grass Roots' Anthology. I can confirm that the poster was 100% correct with his info, and the database will need to be amended to reflect this. Since I only checked just the one CD, hopefully at least one of this song's many other CD appearances in the database will happen to have included the "45 lyric."

I do not believe the Mono "hit" mix has appeared on CD...

Bob

My only commercial copy has the RE suffix.

I know i'm just splitting hairs here, but the digital dub I have of my 45 is 2:44.731 which i would personally round up to say 2:45 (the file was edited so that all dead silence was cut out at the beginning and the song starts dead on at 0:00.00). This is an older dub left on my computer from when the discussion about the alternate version was first brought up, but was still dubbed using my Stanton STR8-80 direct drive turntable, i would be happy to re-time the 45 with a new digital dub in a few weeks when everything is moved to its new home and i have time to dig it out, if anyone feels it would help contribute more to the accuracy of the timing. Personally, though, if Jim got 2:44 that is good enough for me and is definitely close enough to what my dub shows.

For what it's worth, I don't round up numbers when I time music. My opinion is that if our goal is to obtain pinpoint accurate run times, then a song doesn't officially run 2:45 until is actually hits the 2:45:00 mark on a digital timer. Granted, a song that fades out can be more subjective from one set of ears to another as to when an audio signal is no longer heard. In those cases, if I determine a song finishes fading out at between, say, the 2:44.9 and 2:45.00 mark, then I'll go with 2:45.

Again, this is just one passionate collector's method to his madness. I won't lose sleep if other board members prefer to round a run time up to the nearest half second.