Elton John - The One

Actually, looking at the song note more closely, that info might be incorrect altogether. It says commercial copies were all 5:42, but CDs in the database run between 5:49 and 5:52 with no notation.

Pat, was this info accidentally included with the wrong song, or is the 5:42 a typo? The printed time on the US 45 says 5:49.

Pat Downey wrote: The (5:42) time comes from Joel Whitburn's Hot 100 Annual so perhaps Joel has a typo. Let's passs this along to Paul Haney.

I've found several cassette single timings from the 1990s where we were off by a few seconds. I've corrected dozens of them over the past few years. I'll re-time "The One" when I get a chance...unless someone else can beat me to it in the meantime.

Okay, I just re-timed the cassette single of "The One" by Elton John and got a timing of (5:40). I tried it on the 2 cassette decks available to me (both of which have been perfect in the past) and got the same result. I compared it to the version on the CD album and the cassette does run slightly faster. In fact, the album version sounded slightly slower than what I remembered hearing on the radio back in 1992.

If anybody else has the cassette single and comes up with a different time, please post it.

Thanks, Paul. So, do we have a case of "LP speed" and "45 speed"? Is it worth noting the near-10-second timing difference between what was on the single and the database CDs?

I was just able to dissect the short versions of "The One." As expected, the "Early Faded" version is merely an early fade of the full length version. The "Short Edit" fades in the same place as the "Early Faded" version, but the intro is cut in half, too; it removes the section from approximately 0:05.6 to 0:18.3.