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Originally posted by Glenpwood Glenpwood wrote:

To clarify the two versions out on 45.
The longer 3:51
version was meant for the LP and the 3:26 version was
done
for the commercial 45 but the tapes were mislabeled so
the
first pressing 45's (promo & stock) got the long version
and the short version wound up on the first stock copies
of the Touch Me In The Morning album. This was caught and
corrected by Motown during it's chart run. First
pressings
of the album also feature a Deke Richards mix of "We Need
You" where Diana sounds like she's singing the song
underwater so that was corrected as well on the second
pressings.


So, I have the first run of the album with the 45 single
length. I also have the 45 with the single length. And,
here I thought the longer version on one of my CD comps
was some unique tape Harry Weinger found.
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The long 45 version from the first pressings of the 45 runs 3:53.

I have it on the imaginatively titled Diana Ross disc All The Great Hits (copyright 1981), where it sounds just fine.

I also have it on Silver Eagle's 3-CD Motown 25th Anniversary (copyright 1983), where it sounds really lifeless.

It's available on quite a few other Motown discs, but I don't have any others to compare.

The LP and short 45 version from later pressings of the 45 runs 3:26.

This version is much more common on the compilations I have.

It appeared first on a very early CD - Motown's Diana Ross Compact Command Performance 14 Greatest Hits (1984), where it also sounds just fine. The same analog transfer is used on:
  • Motown's Diana Ross All The Great Love Songs (1984) - digitally identical
  • Motown's 12 #1 Hits From The 70's (copyright 1982) - differently-EQ'd digital clone
  • Motown's Endless Love 15 Of Motown's Greatest Love Songs (1986) - differently-EQ'd digital clone
  • Motown's Every Great Motown Song The First 25 Years (1986) - digitally exactly 1 dB louder
  • Silver Eagle/MCA's 3-CD Shades Of Love (1989)
  • Time-Life's Superhits Vol. 13 1973 (1992), later repackaged as AM Gold Vol. 3 1973 (1992) - both have their left and right channels swapped; avoid
  • Time-Life's Body Talk Vol. 4 Together Forever (1996) - differently-EQ'd digital clone
I can't tell if Motown's 4-CD Hitsville USA Vol. 2 (1993) uses the same analog transfer as Compact Command Performance 14 Greatest Hits. I think that it does, but with its absolute polarity inverted (unimportant), and about 7 dB louder. It's a little too loud here, and clips a bit. If you adjust the levels, it sound about the same as Compact.... There's a digitally identical clone on Motown's Motown Year By Year 1973 (1995).

And one outlier, which isn't based on any of the above - Warner Special Products' 2-CD Everlasting Love (1989). It runs a teeny bit faster than all of the above.

My recommendation: Motown did it right the first time. Go with Motown's Diana Ross Compact Command Performance 14 Greatest Hits (1984).
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IMHO, this is one of the greatest - and unique - singles EVER. I believe it has 7 distinct different sections musically - that's almost unheard of - and pretty amazing for a song that clocks in at around 3:30.
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