skyy call me

Hi JL....
i just played a disc dub of the 45 and it matched your
description perfectly. To answer your Q, no the 45 does
not cut off the first 2 guitar notes. The vocals start at
:24 in both cases.

That one edit is very bizarre. It actually doesn't sound
abrupt unless you are looking for it. But I am baffled
as to WHY they felt it needed the 4 second cut. All that
does is remove the words "it's kind of dark and quiet".
??? But there it is.
MM

MMathews wrote: Hi JL.... i just played a disc dub of the 45 and it matched your description perfectly. To answer your Q, no the 45 does not cut off the first 2 guitar notes. The vocals start at :24 in both cases. That one edit is very bizarre. It actually doesn't sound abrupt unless you are looking for it. But I am baffled as to WHY they felt it needed the 4 second cut. All that does is remove the words "it's kind of dark and quiet". ??? But there it is. MM

I was wondering the same thing. A 4 second edit does
nothing for time so maybe it was content? This song was pretty risqué
for 1982 and perhaps they thought the description of this cat's secret
lovenest as dark and quiet was just a bit too creepy for radio at that
time. Not a lot of subtlety in these lyrics.

Such an odd place for an edit.

promojunkie wrote: Bumping this one back up. I have several versions from various sources and none of them are the true 45 edit. The version on the re-issues of Skyyline (track 10) don't appear to be the original US edit. Does anyone know if the true 45 version has made it to any cd compilation(s)? Or can someone shoot over a dub so I can re-create it myself? Thanks.

To which reissue are you referring, Rick? I have the 1993
Japanese reissue (Octave 5037), and the 'Original Single
Version' of "Call Me" (track 11) sounds like the actual 45
version to me, although I have not done a close comparison.