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   Can the missing :24 seconds of the 45 version of this song be taken from the LP version? If so, where?

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eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 93	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Neil Diamond - Be Posted: 23 October 2008 at 4:00pm
	Can the missing :24 seconds of the 45 version of this song be taken from the LP version? If so, where?

sriv94 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 September 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote sriv94 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2008 at 7:20pm
	I don't know this for a fact, but I do believe the actual 45 is just a fade of the longer LP version (there were two LP versions--one longer and one shorter).
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Plastic Steel Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 28 February 2016 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Plastic Steel Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 September 2016 at 5:39pm
	I don't have the 6:30-ish (long) version of this on an album, so someone who does may need to double check this. (I only have the truncated version on my 12 Greatest Hits Vol. II CD.) However, I do have an .mp3 that runs 6:30 and I'm assuming (ugh) that's the one from the Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack. With that caveat... I think you can get very close but no cigar by just fading out the long version to make the 45 edit. The final orchestral chord, which is a resolution, is missing extra instrumentation on the 45 that returns the song to a passage with rhythm on the long LP version. The resolution chord is just held and fades on the 45, whereas the LP version adds bass, guitar and eventually piano (and then a trumpet and cellos and for all I know screaming seagulls because by this time I "Be" turning this rather lengthy song off) back into the mix on top of that "last" 45 chord. So it can't "Be" done. Incidentally, the timing listed on the 45 is cute -- no doubt for the benefit of easily misled program directors. Instead of a time, Columbia put this: Intro. :24 Vocal 3:28 Instrumental ending: 1:37 That adds up to 5:29. My 45 is more like 5:30. Edited by Plastic Steel