A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie

I found versions with five different lengths.

The true 45 runs 3:41, with a very long fade that starts after the lone bass note at 3:21.

The first CD to feature the song was Silver Eagle/Warner Special Products' 2-CD Dancin' The Night Away (1988). Here, it runs 19 seconds longer than the 45 at 4:03. The fade starts at the same point on the 45, but fades out much more slowly than the 45. Sound quality is OK, with good dynamic range, OK EQ, no noise reduction, but probably not the lowest-generation source tapes. The same analog transfer is used on:

• Priority's Mega-Hits Dance Classics Vol. 2 (1989; too loud and clips a bit)
• Razor & Tie's 2-CD Disco Fever (1991)
• Sony's Collector's Edition Disco (1995; differently-EQ'd digital clone of Disco Fever and additionally fades early)

Bill Inglot did a new analog transfer for Rhino's Disco Years Vol. 1 (1990), which sounds terrific. The fade starts and ends in the same place as the 45, but fades in volume a little more quickly than the 45. Not a big deal - this is a significant improvement over the above four CDs. There are lots of discs that use the same analog transfer as Disco Years Vol. 1:

• Rhino's Billboard Top Dance Hits 1978 (1992; differently-EQ'd digital clone)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 27 Dance Fever (1992)
• Warner Special Products' 2-CD Disco Collection (1993)
• Rhino Special Editions' cheapie Disco Hits Vol. 6 (1994; digitally identical to Billboard Top Dance Hits 1978)
• JCI's Only Rock 'N Roll 1975-1979 (1994)
• Madacy's Rock On 1978 (1996)
• EMI Australia's 5-CD Seventies Complete Vol. 1 (1997)
• Time-Life's Solid Gold Soul Vol. 17 1978 (1997; digitally exactly 0.198 dB quieter)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 46 '70s Dance Party 1978-1979 (1997)
• Rhino's Millennium New Disco Party (2000; digitally exactly 1.214 dB louder than Billboard Top Dance Hits 1978)
• Time-Life's 2-CD Seventies Music Explosion Vol. 4 Magic (2005)

There's another analog transfer of the 45 version on EMI UK's Time To Remember 1978 (1996), which has a truncated fade.

The LP version runs about 5:30.

I have a version on Simitar's Number Ones Party Time (1998), which is a little compressed, and is likely a clone of an existing CD.

I have another version on Disky UK's 8-CD Wow That Was The 70's (1999) and Disky UK's 8-CD Greatest Hits Of The '70s (2000), both of which are a tiny bit more compressed than the Simitar disc and sound comparable to the Simitar disc.

There's a version running about 7:18 on Cema's Rock-N-Roll Greatest Hits Vol. 5 (1995), which is a really aggressively remixed version. It runs the same length as a John Luongo remix that I found on a Capitol 12" single; not sure if this was the 12" single released in 1978.

Finally, there an edit of the 7:18 version, running 6:21 on Rebound's Disco Nights Vol. 4 Greatest Disco Groups (1994). Not why this exists at all.

Recommendations: for the 45 version, go with Rhino's Billboard Top Dance Hits 1978 (1992), although Disco Years or its clones sound just as good.

For the others, any of the CDs in the database should work just fine.

Edited by crapfromthepast

The 1978 12" single was indeed the LP version.