Elton John-"Tiny Dancer"

Great (OK, in my case, good) minds think alike--except I posted inside the thread. And I didn't go into as much detail.

Not the first time people have written whole posts while I was trying to think about what I was going to say. :)

Never knew there was an edit of this song. It didn't get much airplay up this way, maybe because it was a long song by an artist who'd only had one or two hits. I worked weekends at a small-market "chicken rock" station in '72...I'm pretty sure we played it, but it might have been from a stock copy...the station didn't get very good record service & had to trade out for a lot of their currents.

Does anyone have an mp3 they could send my way?

Edited by Hykker

There were at least two different promo 45s for "Tiny Dancer." In addition to the 3:45/6:12 version, a 3:45 starred-side version was backed with "Razor Face," the stock B-side. This second variation had "SHORT VERSION" printed at the bottom of the label, and no production credits were listed.

eriejwg wrote: I've never understood why the promo 45 of this song wasn't edited differently to include the beautiful ending that the 6:12 version has. Instead, just faded out...to 3:41.

Yeah, the promo 45 of Tiny Dancer just fading the song from the full 6:12 length to a length of 3:41 (excluding the cold ending) doesn't seem like a great way to go.

I just did my own custom edit - and kept the piano ending. It's funny I was listening to the song a week ago and noticed it takes until 2:33 to get to the start of Chorus 1! A time of 2:33 is longer than quite a few top 40 hits from the '60s and early '70s. Anyway, I did some edits and got the song from 6:14 to 4:54, which is still rather long for a 45 from the early '70s. But any more edits would have really not been good. In fact, when I just finished this, I thought, "If someone heard this edit back then, as the first time hearing the song, it would probably/hopefully sound fine (in terms of smooth edits) - but to all of us who have known the song as it is for the past 49 years [which is the whole world], it probably sounds bizarre - like, why is it missing sections? :)

Some people might consider editing long Elton John songs as sacrilege. But that aside, does anyone have (or maybe have personally made) custom edits for these long Elton singles that they can share:

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Levon
Honky Cat

I realize there's a slightly shorter fade for the single of Lucy in the Sky, but it only fades about 11 seconds of the song. These songs are all over 5 minutes (with Lucy being over 6 minutes). And it seems like there would be some custom edits of them somewhere along the way.

BTW, Gary just shared with me his custom edit of "Philadelphia Freedom" (4:06 instead of 5:19) and it's good.

One last comment - there's something non-intuitive, ironic and nonsensical about all this - at least from the point of view of an alien :) - If someone looked down and observed us taking songs we enjoy and going to all these efforts to hear LESS of them, it really doesn't make sense to many people.

But it does to those of us who like to hear compact, radio-length singles.

Edited by EdisonLite