asia--only time will tell

does anyone know where i can find the 45 version (4:05) of asia "only time will tell"....the only version i can find is the lp version which runs 4:44 in length....

Yes, the 45 is an edit and can be reconstructed from the LP version. I'll try to check my edit when I get home tonight to jog my memory on how it was done.

Torcan:

If you might be able to determine the edits for this song...please share. I am very interested in recreating the DJ versions.

eriejwg wrote: Torcan: If you might be able to determine the edits for this song...please share. I am very interested in recreating the DJ versions.

I don't have these fancy computer programs it sounds like most of you do, and I'm still more of a vinyl collector, but I'll do my best to describe the edits.

Everything's the same as the LP version up to the end of the first chorus. After he says "...tide me over", edit out the instrumental and go right to "Only time will tell...".

The verse, instrumental and "Now, sure as the sun..." are all intact.

After the next "...tide me over", edit out the next instrumental passage and go right to "You're leaving now".

After "...planned it all along", edit to "You're on your own, inside your room" to fade.

That's the 3:23 edit. I never really liked the 4:05 edit because there's a part near the end of the song where you can actually hear the edit. When the song wasa a hit, I always heard the full LP version on the stations I listened to.

Also, I know that the third single "Soul Survivor" wasn't a top 40 hit, but my US 45 has a listed run time of 3:35. I'm sure I saw a 4:48 version one time (it might have been the Canadian 45), does anyone know if there were two 45s for that?

The short side of my DJ 45 has both a listed and actual time of (3:23), while the long side version (which is the same as the commercial 45, and was also an LP edit, as indicated above) has a listed time of (4:05) and an actual time of (4:04).