"She’s A Beauty" - Tubes

You know, I've loved the song ever since I was a little kid, but I never realized that the 45 was edited until you asked. (I knew that their superb follow-up, "Tip Of My Tongue", was edited for the 45, though. That track totally smokes - it sounds like Earth, Wind & Fire - but it sounded nothing at all like "She's A Beauty" and radio completely ignored it. But I digress...)

The true 45 is found on Rhino's Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s Vol. 8 (1994, runs 3:28).

The LP version is found almost everywhere else and runs 3:55-3:57. My version of choice is on Cema Special Markets' Rock On 1983 (1996), which is digitally exactly 1.1 dB louder than Mystic Presents Cool Rock (1995). The version on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties 1983-1984 (1995) is a different EQ than that on Priority's Rock Of The 80's Vol. 3 (1992), and both are compressed/maximized - I'd avoid them if possible.

Here are instructions for creating the 45 edit from the LP version:

Keep 0:00-1:59.1 of the LP version.
Edit on the snare in the middle of the word "love" at the beginning of the second chorus.
Remove the 32 beats from 1:59.1-2:16.3.
Keep the 159 beats from 2:16.3-3:42.0.
Put a 32-beat fade from 3:24.8 (downbeat on word "love" at beginning of second chorus after the break) to 3:42.0 (downbeat at last word "love" before LP version fades).

Your mixdown will run 3:24.7, with an edit at 1:59.0 and a 32-beat fade from 3:07-3:24. The fade of the true 45, as on the Rhino CD, has an abrupt start and a very long tail. A sinusoidal 32-beat fade as I described is a very good approximation of the fade shape, but it hits zero faster than the true 45, and so runs a little shorter.

According to abagon, the actual and printed commercial 45 run time of the Tubes' "She's a Beauty" is 3:25. I only post this info because nearly all CDs in the database with the "45 version" comment run 3:28.