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   As the database indicates, the original 45 versions of Adam Wade's "Take Good Care Of Her" and "As If I Didn't Know" are not on domestic CD.  I have located each of these songs on two different Ace Records compilations.  The former tune is on a compilation called "Teenage Crush" and the latter on a compilation entitled "Golden Age Of American Popular Music."  I have emailed various folks at Ace to ask if these are the original 45 versions but have not received a response and I'm not buying them unless I confirm that they are.  Does anyone know if these Ace compilations contain the originals or, in the alternative, where you can get the originals on an import CD?  Thanks much for any insights.  Dan

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satchdr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 22 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote satchdr Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Adam Wade Posted: 20 March 2007 at 12:05am
	As the database indicates, the original 45 versions of Adam Wade's "Take Good Care Of Her" and "As If I Didn't Know" are not on domestic CD. I have located each of these songs on two different Ace Records compilations. The former tune is on a compilation called "Teenage Crush" and the latter on a compilation entitled "Golden Age Of American Popular Music." I have emailed various folks at Ace to ask if these are the original 45 versions but have not received a response and I'm not buying them unless I confirm that they are. Does anyone know if these Ace compilations contain the originals or, in the alternative, where you can get the originals on an import CD? Thanks much for any insights. Dan

davidclark Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 17 November 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 29	Post Options Post Reply Quote davidclark Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2007 at 5:54am
	on The Golden Age of American Popular Music, "As If I Didn't Know" is a stereo alternate version. I do not know about the Teenage Crush CD.
	dc1

Bob Lovely Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 12 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bob Lovely Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2007 at 6:17am
	On Teenage Crush, "Take Good Care Of Her" is the Stereo LP mix. Bob
	Just give me the hits...

Todd Ireland Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Todd Ireland Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2007 at 5:51pm
	Wow, I didn't realize the alternate take of Adam Wade's "Take Good Care of Her" is actually the LP version. The database should probably be updated to reflect this. For those who don't already know, the 45 version of "Take Good Care of Her" is on tap to make its domestic CD debut next month on the ERIC record label compilation: Hard to Find 45's on CD Volume 10: (1960-1965)! The scheduled release date is April 17.

Pat Downey Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 01 October 2003 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Pat Downey Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2007 at 6:09pm
	I was not aware of the alternate take being the stereo LP version either. Does anyone have the mono LP that you can check to see if that also has the alternate take?

satchdr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 22 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote satchdr Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2007 at 9:51pm
	Thanks to everyone for the information and I'm glad to see that Eric is coming out with another one of their great "hard to find 45s" compilations. Dan

TomDiehl1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 January 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote TomDiehl1 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2007 at 10:00pm
	The stereo versions for both songs are technically the LP versions, as they were first issued on the lp Adam Wade's Greatest Hits on EPIC, where the other alternate takes showed up for the first time as well. These are all likely from the same sessions as the Coed hits but are not the same takes. Epic wouldn't have had him re-record everything with full orchestras, costing the company lots of extra unnecessary money, if the original multitrack session tapes still existed and could be quickly mixed for a stereo lp. That is basically what I was told from a guy who worked at Epic at the time..he also said that the mono lp very likely used mono fold-downs of the stereo mixes.
	Live in stereo.

smvceo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 December 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote smvceo Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 August 2007 at 7:00am
	Adam Wades's Coed hits were re-recorded for Epic. Coed never mixed his singles to stereo. There were two Coed LPs, one of which is stereo. These are available on Collectables as a 2-fer, but the CD contains no hits. Epic never issued any of the original Coed masters, since they don't own them. Post Records owns them.

satchdr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 22 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote satchdr Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 August 2007 at 7:57am
	Thanks, smvceo, for the additional information on Adam Wade. One would think that Post Records would want to release the original Coed hits on its own "greatest hits" CD. It always amazes me when there's a gap in the digital releases of one artist's material when it could be so easily remedied. Fortunately, until that release occurs, I've purchased a mint copy of the Coed 45 of "As If I Didn't Know" through eBay (together with the original picture sleeve.) Dan

smvceo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 December 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote smvceo Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 August 2007 at 9:39pm
	I will point out that "As If I Didn't Know" has a bogus edit on the 45. I've got a master "ready-to-go" with the edit repaired that will probably appear on a forthcoming release, although nothing is cast in cement as of this writing.