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<the single of "Look What
You've Done To Me" by Boz Scaggs includes instrumentation not in the LP
mix)>

Do you recall what other instrumentation was in that mix? I simply made an edit of the album version and THOUGHT that I had the single version!

But to answer your question, having made some single edits (though not as many as some of the other people on this board), I think for many people they want to hear the version they grew up with, the version they always knew from the radio.

Certainly with single MIXES, they were generally done to sound better and usually contain MORE instrumentation, but why people would want the edited versions of recordings -- I think it's familiarity.

In some cases, the long versions have slowed down sections that don't "feel" like a regular part of the song, like Roger Hodgson's "Had a Dream" -- or just completely different sections. I can only compare it to visiting an old friend -- if you went to visit a friend you hadn't seen in a couple years, and all of a sudden he had a third arm, you'd say, "Get rid of that extra arm!"

I agree for the same reasons, especially the point of familiarity that Edisonlite brings up. Also, most of us already have the longer LP versions of these songs, but we want the 45 versions, too. Like Edtop40 said, we're collectors, and some of us are just trying to "complete" our collections by having both the LP and/or 45 versions of songs.

budaniel wrote: Now, for the boz Scaggs dilemma--in the single version (which I still have on a K-tel album called The Elite--but really want on CD because the vinyl pressing was not very good), I believe it's in the break between the first chorus and the next verse, there is what I guess you could call a sort of "twanging" instrumentation that is totally missing from the album version! That's the only reason I still have that k-tel record in my collection, because every other song on it was long ago replaced on CD.

I have a couple of CDs with a long version. They do feature a guitar solo during the break between the first chorus and second verse (the solo is repeated in the break between the second chorus and the reprised chorus--much of which was edited out in the single version).

Does that mean that these CDs don't have the true LP version? Now that you mention it, I do recall hearing a version on the radio many years ago without a guitar solo (which was not edited).

I can't add anything that hasn't already been said on your other initial question.

ok, I listened at home, and at approximately the 1:50 mark on the single version of "Look What You've Done to Me", the chorus ends and bleeds into a twangy guitar. On the LP version, the chorus background vocals almost fade out into silence, and a very quiet piano then takes over. The twangy guitar finally shows up for the last few notes.

budaniel wrote: ok, I listened at home, and at approximately the 1:50 mark on the single version of "Look What You've Done to Me", the chorus ends and bleeds into a twangy guitar. On the LP version, the chorus background vocals almost fade out into silence, and a very quiet piano then takes over. The twangy guitar finally shows up for the last few notes.

Hmmm. As stated before, I have two CDs that Pat cites as having the LP version of that song (one runs (5:14), the other (5:12)). In both cases, that guitar solo appears in the break that you mentioned (the guitar solo is also reprised in the break that would've been excised by the single version).

There's a CD with a (5:27) version, which is the Urban Cowboy soundtrack CD. I wonder if that's the version that you have on vinyl (I don't have that CD to note whether or not guitars appear, plus it's 13-15 seconds longer than the other commercially-available versions). And was there a Boz Scaggs LP that had the song that might account for the (5:1x) version (which would have spawned the (4:11) edit)?

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