Talking Heads - And She Was

The "New Mix" is an alternate mix and was used in the the music video.

This version was also featured on the promotional Canadian release, a needledrop of which can be downloaded here. Enjoy!

Hopefully someone can shed light onto whether this was the dominant airplay mix.

Gene... Ping me if you want a dub of the 12" for Blacklight Friday and
Sat nights.

I compared my "new mix" promo with my promo for the 3:38
version, and it is indeed a different mix. The remix has
listed time of 3:26, actual 3:31. I'd say 75% of the
circumference of the deadwax has info in it...SLM ∆ 10430
1-1 7-28917-DNY-3672-RE1-S SH1 OR-14757-Re1-SH1

Whew! Someone must have had writers' cramp by the time
they finished that one!

As far as which version got the most radio play...can't
say...I'd never really listened that closely to the remix
before.


Edited by Hykker

Hykker wrote: I compared my "new mix" promo with my promo for the 3:38 version, and it is indeed a different mix. The remix has a listed time of 3:26, actual 3:31. I'd say 75% of the circumference of the deadwax has info in it...SLM ∆ 10430   1-1 7-28917-DNY-3672-RE1-S SH1 OR-14757-Re1-SH1 Whew! Someone must have had writers' cramp by the time they finished that one!

Steve, are you sure the "O" in the "OR-14757" isn't actually a malformed Allied Records stylized "A" logo? The B-side deadwax of my styrene stock copy of "Road To Nowhere" ("Give Me Back My Name") has a similar spread-out numbering pattern and layout, and what looks more like an "O" (or a "Q", actually) is a partially-formed Allied logo. Allied was the United Artists-owned L.A. plant which was inherited by Capitol and subsequently sold to WEA. During the early '80s, I received duplicate Warner promo 45s from both Allied (styrene) and Specialty (vinyl.)

My "And She Was" new mix RE-1 DJ 45 is a Specialty vinyl pressing, with a shorter deadwax ID: (SRC Specialty Records logo) "7-28917-DNY-3672-RE1-S- SR21-2". It's the file copy from the KDWB library, but as I wasn't working there at the time, I can't presume that it actually ended up on cart.

My copy states "Mixed by Malcolm Pollack", as does the Discogs scan Gene linked to upthread. The Canadian promo Underground Dub linked to states "Mixed by Eric E.T. Thorngren" on both the A and "Dub" B-sides. Was that simply a case of the Canadian label copy not having been updated for the new mix?

crapfromthepast wrote: until someone walked off with it

I thought that only happened at my college station, Ron! ;) Our setup minimized pilfering, as one could only access the on-air studio/record library by walking through the newsroom/studio. When it did occur, it was the catalog LPs that vanished: most of the Beatles' titles on one occasion, and a swath of Motown gold on another, with the latter being traced to a custodian at the student union (an art deco building located next to the art museum that looks like an exploded furnace on the east bank of a certain river on a certain planet.) The union was locked after 11PM, and the thefts always occurred during the 3-7AM hours when we weren't originating our own programming.

Wow... I'd forgotten about having to put on a long enough record to dash down three floors and to the opposite wing of the building to admit the midnight-to-3 jock and run back upstairs again... it was faster than waiting for the elevators.    

Edited by Yah Shure

Yah Shure wrote: Steve, are you sure the "O" in the "OR-14757" isn't actually a malformed Allied Records stylized "A" logo? The B-side deadwax of my styrene stock copy of "Road To Nowhere" ("Give Me Back My Name") has a similar spread- out numbering pattern and layout, and what looks more like an "O" (or a "Q", actually) is a partially-formed Allied logo.

It could conceivably be a Q...there does seem to be a
little speck at about 5 o'clock on it. Would never in a
million years suspect it of being an A though.