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MMathews ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 18 August 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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"My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" does not have a different vocal take. I sync's the 45 with the LP version.
The differences in the LP version are added instruments, and a different mix. The LP version added an extra guitar and woodwinds. When they remixed it for the stereo they bounced the original vocal into a new track and as a result it sounds hollow and weird in the LP version, but same take. MM |
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Santi Paradoa ![]() Music Fan ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 February 2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 29 |
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Great info. So have these three tracks yet to appear on CD in the proper hit 45 versions?
- Second Hand Love - My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own - Follow The Boys Edited by Santi Paradoa |
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Brian W. ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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Hmm, I don't know... according to the Bear Family Connie Francis box: "Several takes from these sessions are still extant. The original MGM K 12923 single utilized Take 49 (recorded July 31, 1960) but two weeks into release this was replaced by Take 37 (recorded July 25, 1960) at the behest of Francis and the song's writers." The Bear Family box does contain take 37, but the sound quality is awful... it's super distorted. Not sure if it's a disc dub or a faulty tape source. The good news is that "Second Hand Love" and "Together" are both on the Bear Family box in their mono single mixes, in very good sound. "Follow the Boys" does not appear at all. Edited by Brian W. |
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Michaeldila ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 25 April 2014 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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"follow the boys" was scheduled to be included on the third bear family
set, but it was canceled due to low sales apparently...too bad because there is plenty of connie's stuff waiting to be released in the digital age... Edited by Michaeldila |
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vanmeter ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 28 December 2005 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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This is my 45 of "My Heart..." Deadwax is 60-XY-125-1, MGM K12923. As I say it's a completely different version after the bridge. This was a dub I did many years ago and I think the declicking of the the time destroyed the pick bass sound in the arrangement, so before it's pointed out I know that there's (unfortunately) too much noise reduction here, I've just never taken time to do it again all these years later.
https://picosong.com/wJkTm Edited by vanmeter |
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Brian W. ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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Very, VERY interesting! It's not just different after the bridge, Vanmeter, it's a completely different take from start to finish. BUT... that is NOT take 37. That sounds to my ears to be take 23, which is also on the Bear Family box, and in much better sound than take 37! I need to listen further, but my initial impression is that that's take 23. And this is an American pressing of "My Heart Has a Mind of It's Own," correct? Edited by Brian W. |
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vanmeter ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 28 December 2005 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Yes, my 45s are boxed up but I can dig for it in a day or two just to remove any doubt - but it is a standard, black label early '60s US pressing - the matrix info in the dead wax is listed above, and it's the same catalog number as the "regular" version. My mother was a fan and this came out her senior year of HS so all I can figure it she must've bought it when it was brand new and got a different version that was replaced/pulled quickly. As I say I never never heard this take anywhere else (I don't have the BF box).
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Paul C ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 23 October 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 25 |
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Thanks for the discovery, David. The Collectables 45 of "Follow The Boys", issued in 1986, is the LP version in stereo. So it looks like the MGM Gold Circle reissue 45 may well have been the last time the 45 version was issued. I don't know when the MGM reissue 45 would have gone out of print, but likely not later than the early 1970s.
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