Carpenters-"Calling Occupants..."

jimct wrote: My promo 45 has the listed and actual (7:07) (ALBUM VERSION) on one side, while the other side has the (EDITED VERSION), with a listed run time of (3:59), but actual run time of (4:04), same as the stock 45 version.

I have two, one with Stereo/Mono of the edit and one of the Long/Short
version, the short edit running about 4:04. I just made my CD edited version
but I had to lift the front from the promo single since the CD version has a
strings overlap on the front.

I was able to cleanly recreate the exact edited stock 45 from the LP version...

jimct wrote: BillyDee, welcome to the Board! You're gonna fit right in with us. Didn't know about that Stereo/mono edit promo 45; outstanding job by you. Pat & Co. do an unbelievably fantastic job of documenting what no one else can or will, when it comes to what versions are on which CDs, and what was put out in the first place on regular/promo 45s and/or promo CD singles. I look forward to your help, as I'm the "unofficial" promo guy.

I've been a radio guy since my high school days in the mid 70's (a small
330 watt community FM station located at a local high school in Fairfield
County, Connecticut gave me my start). I later went on to do engineering
for a handful of AM's and FM's including a local 50KW FM. I've been
hooked on getting correct single and/or promo versions for a long time.
Part of it is the collector's "bug" in me and part of it is to use them on my
oldies webcast.

On the occasions I can't get a hold of a promo or single edit I'll use old
airchecks as references and I've lucked out on a few occasions.

Thanks for the welcome, JimCT and I hope I can prove to be a resource to
the other enthusiasts here.

Bill

Todd Ireland wrote: Grant: Which CD containing "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" did you use as the basis for your homemade 45 edit?

Passage

Bill: Welcome!

Bringing back an old post --

Yesterday, a friend asked me to make a 45 edit of "Occupants" and like Grant, I used the "Passage" CD, but unlike Grant, I couldn't duplicate the 45 from this version. I got it exactly like the 45 with the one exception that there are string overdubs in the 4-second intro of the song (as Billy Dee pointed out.)

Grant, do you mean you took the intro from the 45 and took the rest from the "Passage" CD? If not, how did you edit the "Passage" CD and get a non-string intro for your simulated single version?

Also, does anyone know of any import Carpenters CDs that use the single mix of this song? And has anyone researched them all and found out there weren't any?