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    Posted: 03 September 2019 at 9:26pm
The database currently lists "45 speed and length" or "LP speed and length" for "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins. For practical purposes, this is correct, and I don't suggest making any changes. I do, however, want to point out that technically, the 45 is not merely slowed down and faded early. This is actually a very, very slightly different mix from the LP mix. There's nothing that really jumps out as being significantly different, but there are some subtle differences in stereo field placement and levels of instruments.

Did the single come out before the LP? If so, that could explain the very subtle remix for the LP. For starters, the 45 sounds muddy with several layers of hiss. Perhaps when it came time to mix the LP, someone suggested making another mixdown to fix the muddy sound and eliminate the added tape hiss.
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My recollection is that the single came out before the album. When the album was released I noticed that it sounded a little faster and had a better mix so the station I
was at switched to the LP presentation.
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I'm a big Bertie Higgins fan, and my recollection is that the album came out about 3 months after the single. I just checked the Whitburn singles and albums, and though the debut dates aren't necessarily an indicator, the album debuted on the charts 3 months after "Key Largo" debuted on the charts. So there probably was a difference of about that amount of time. Never noticed the slight mix differences. Interestingly, a single for the follow-up album, "Pirates and Poets", has a slight difference in mix, insofar as there's a hi-hat before the song starts on the single, and it's not on the album (much like the single vs. album difference in LRB's "The Other Guy", which was something I pointed out ont his board many years ago.) And that was the only difference in this follow-up Bertie Higgins single that I noticed. (Why even bother?) But now I'm wondering if there are more differences in "Pirates and Poets" (single vs. album) as is the case with "Key Largo". I'll try to A-B them.
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Yes, the 45 single of "Key Largo" was released 3 months
before the LP was released. Another note, this classic was
recorded partially at Pyramid Eye Recording Studios in
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Sonny Limbo, the producer was
also at one time a DJ at WFLI 1070 AM, in Lookout
Mountain, Tennessee, the big 50,000 watt Top 40 radio
powerhouse in the Chattanooga, Tennessee market (who were
also the first to play "Key Largo" on the air.
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Hi Aaron,

What's the story with the 1988 single release of "Key Largo" on Southern Tracks Records?

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I'm not sure what's on the on Southern Tracks 45s, but it's probably a re-recording. I see he put out a few 45s on that label in the late '80s, and "Key Largo" is on the B-side of both "Leah" (ST-2010) and "The Flag's On Fire" (ST-0016). Maybe he was hoping people would buy the new singles if it had his big hit on the flipside?
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Thanks, Aaron. That's what I figure.
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If you're still looking for a difference between the mixes, the panning of an acoustic guitar moves from right/center in the 45 mix to left/center in the LP mix.

Listen to the line "wrapped around each other" - the downbeat guitar strum at the beginning of the word "other" at 0:21. The panning of that acoustic guitar remains constant throughout the song (for example, listen to the first line of the chorus, "we had it all"), and different for the 45 and LP mixes.

Small difference, for sure, but at least something concrete to identify which mix is which.
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Interesting Ron. Have both mixes been released on CD?
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Yes, indeed.

For the 45 mix, I use Rhino's Like Omigod.

For the LP mix, I use a mail-order 2-CD collection called Reflections Of Love, but it's also on many others.
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