"I Just Want To Be Your Everything"

TomDiehl1 wrote: Skyline's version would be correct...they always compare their files to the original 45s where available...

Not so fast, Tom. I know for a fact that the version of Madonna's "Holiday" that Skyline posted on their website a year or two ago was a new and incorrect (not to mention bad) edit from the album version. I was told Skyline claimed it was from a 45 dub, but believe me it WAS NOT. Someone played it for me. It was an incorrect custom edit of the album version passed off as a 45 dub, with one edit in the wrong place and another edit badly done.

I submitted a couple of correct edits of things that are wrong on the website months ago. Tom is very busy, and keeps having bad luck, so he probably hasn't gotten around to auditioning everything yet.


People send him things and he posts some of them pretty much as is without verification. Who knows?

I discovered that there are three different mixes of the LP length on CD!

The first mix on CD is found on Silver Eagle/Warner Special Products' 2-CD Dancin' The Night Away (1988). This mix has no hi hat in the intro just before the vocals start. That doesn't match the LP, the 45, or any other mix from vinyl that I've found on YouTube, all of which have a nice quarter-note hi hat to keep time before the vocals start. I suspect that someone pulled an unused mix from the vault, but I can't confirm. The same analog transfer is used on Priority's Mega-Hits Dance Classics Vol. 1 (1989).

The second mix is found on Polydor's understatedly-titled greatest hits CD Andy Gibb (1991). There's a dropout in the right channel about 5 seconds in. RSO's vinyl Andy Gibb's Greatest Hits (1980) also has the dropout 5 seconds in, so it's clear that Andy Gibb uses the same source as the vinyl GH album. Most of the common Time-Life collections use the same analog transfer as Andy Gibb.

The third mix is found on Polydor's Pure Disco 2 (1997). The disc gives a mastering credit to Suha Gur. I suspect that it's a 1997 remix by Suha Gur as well, but can't confirm. It sounds superb. If you need to show a real difference from the Andy Gibb mix, listen around 0:36. There are some background rhythm guitar bits around 0:36 that are in the opposite channels in the two mixes. The same analog transfer is used on Polydor's Best Of 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection (2001) and the Qobuz download of the full Andy Gibb Flowing Rivers album.

I confirmed with a few dubs from YouTube (both the US commercial 45 and the US promo 45): the 45 is an edit and early fade of the mix from Andy Gibb.

Interestingly, the 45 edit on the intro edits out the portion of the LP version that has the dropout at 5 seconds in.

Could it be that the dropout at 5 seconds in is baked into the true LP mix? (I don't have the vinyl Flowing Rivers album to confirm one way or the other.) If so, it could explain why RSO chose to edit the intro of the 45, and why Suha Gur (possibly) remixed the song in 1997.

Listening to dozens of versions of the song makes me appreciate how well the song is produced and recorded. The Bee Gees' production team of Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson were absolute masters of the studio. I'm a fan.

Edited by crapfromthepast - 17 hours 58 minutes ago at 10:38pm

The Flowing Rivers album first appeared on CD in 1998 on Polydor.

Because the album first appeared on CD after the 1997 release of Pure Disco 2, and because the Qobuz version of Flowing Rivers included the same version as Pure Disco 2, I'd bet a nickel that your CD also uses the Pure Disco 2 mix.

(I'll be happy to compare your Flowing Rivers CD version to the others that are out there. It takes me about two minutes total to do one of these comparisons.)