Promo 45 of "Isn’t She Lovely"?

Hi People,

Was there a USA promo 45 of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely"?

Any & all info would be appreciated.

Andy

There's a short (~3:45) edit on a TM Century Golddisc. Did they cut that themselves?

It may not be sanctioned, but it's funny--all the radio edits I've heard pretty much follow the same formula (snip the baby cries and edit the instrumental ending so that only two verses remain).

I should point out that the import version of Stevie Wonder's The Definitive Collection has a (3:21) version (snipping the baby cries, having one instrumental line at the beginning before the vocals kick in and fading out the [unedited] instrumental ending way early).

Edited by sriv94

eric_a wrote: There's a short (~3:45) edit on a TM Century Golddisc. Did they cut that themselves?

I'm pretty sure that they did. TM Century actually did a good job editing the song since they nearly cut the song in half, down from it's original length of 6:40. They cut most of the intro, and long instrumental passage in the middle. Yet it still manages to sound pretty complete down the cold ending on the long version. The oldies stations in my area play this version.

It's rather ironic that Stevie wouldn't allow an edited version of "Isn't She Lovely" to be released as a single. The other two singles released, "Another Star" and "As" were both dramatically edited down from their original LP lengths when released as 45's. Both of those singles barely scraped the bottom half of the top 40.

Jeff H. wrote: It's rather ironic that Stevie wouldn't allow an edited version of "Isn't She Lovely" to be released as a single. The other two singles released, "Another Star" and "As" were both dramatically edited down from their original LP lengths when released as 45's. Both of those singles barely scraped the bottom half of the top 40.

In the case of "As" it's just a very early fade. I Don't remember the LP version of "Another Star" to know if the 45 was an edit or a fade.