barry manilow "let’s hang on"

<a run time on the label as 3:41 but actually runs 3:08.>

This is so bizzarre to me and also makes me laugh. Virtually every Arista single has the wrong run time, and not just off by a few seconds but MANY songs, but in virtually every case, the time has been made to appear shorter, which to me is Clive Davis' attempt to get radio stations to play Arista's singles even though they're longer than he would like them to appear. Then, when he's finally presented with a 3:08 single, the run time is listed as 3:41! Go figure.

I remember that some of the Arista 45s had the wrong time because they didn't count the intro time. You'd see an intro time of :15 on the label and a time of 3:45, and the song would time out to 4:00. I can't say that was the case on all of them, and in most cases only the DJ copies showed the intro time, but I did notice if you added the two times together on some of the Arista 45s of the period you'd get the right time.

Or it was just a coincidence!

The actual running time of my stock commercial 45 is also (3:08), but the printed time on the record label is "3:09" (Arista 0675) Let's Hang On (Record Label)

--abagon