Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster

The LP version runs around 4:43 to 4:47.

I have it on just two CDs. Mercury's Gold (copyright 1976) sounds good and runs 4:43. I prefer the version on Razor & Tie's 2-CD Sweet '70s Soul (1991), which runs a few seconds longer at 4:45.

The 45 version is more common on compilations than the LP version, so I never bothered to determine if it can be edited down from the LP. I assume that it's an edit, and not a remix. The 45 version runs around 2:50 to 2:53.

The earliest CD to feature the 45 version is Silver Eagle/Warner Special Products' 2-CD Dancin' The Night Away (1988). The levels are a bit low and the EQ is bass-heavy, but both of those things are fixed on all of the following discs, which use the same analog transfer as Dancin' The Night Away:

• Priority's Mega-Hits Dance Classics Vol. 5 (1989; too loud and clips a bit - avoid)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 25 Seventies Generation (1992)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 39 Pop Nuggets Late '70s (1995; differently-EQ'd digital clone of Seventies Generation but with lots of extra compression - avoid)
• Time-Life's Solid Gold Soul Vol. 11 1976 (1996; differently-EQ'd digital clone of Seventies Generation)

Bill Inglot did a new analog transfer for Rhino's Didn't It Blow Your Mind Vol. 17 (1995), which I prefer over the discs listed above. The same analog transfer is used for:

• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 44 '70s Dance Party 1975-1976 (1997; differently-EQ'd digital clone)
• Rhino's Millennium Funk Party (1998)

My recommendation for the 45 version: Rhino's Didn't It Blow Your Mind Vol. 17 (1995), although the '70s Dance Party and Millennium Funk Party discs also sound really nice.

Edited by crapfromthepast