Jim Photoglo - Fool In Love With You

On this past weekend's AT40 '80s rebroadcast from this week in 1981,
Casey Kasem played the single version of "Fool In Love With You"
and I noticed for the first time that the vocal actually seems to be
slightly different than the album version. In another thread we
discussed how to edit the album version to get the single, but I think
they may be two different vocal takes.

If anyone else has the single and the LP version, I'd love to get a
second opinion. And before anyone asks, I am not talking about the
re-recording he did of this song years later.

Yes, I have both and have compared them. All the performances differ obviously.
Aaron, I sent you an MP3 file of the LP via e-mail. Check again, please.

The commercial 45 - actual 3:28 - listed 3:30 20th Century TC-2487
The LP - title "Fool In Love With You" - actual 3:37 - listed 3:40 20th Century T-621

--abagon

Another homemade edit by TM Century on their GD3.

They use a :34 intro with a starting fade at 3:24 ending at 3:30.

My ears detect vinyl rumble, and it may be slightly pitched.   I should start a list of songs they've 'made us to believe' are the real hit versions.

Could you send me the official 45 version to compare?

Thank you for the detail, aaron!

--abagon

I've revisited this song recently and my findings affect
some of the above info so here
goes:
There were TWO different recordings of this and THREE
versions of it back in 1981.
My copy of the LP contained this version, which is also
the 1st pressing LP version:
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EDIT: WRONG! See updated info below.

I bought the first pressing LP version and for 40 years
I thought that was the hit
version. Wrong.

After that LP was released, I assume quickly, he went
back into the studio and
completely re-recorded the song. That 2nd pressing LP
version can be heard here:
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You'll hear the whole new backing track and whole new
vocal performance. Then there's
the 45 mix. The 45 was a remix of version 2 above. They
mixed it differently, changed
some effects, and changed the single-drum-beat intro to
3 cymbal taps instead. They also
edited the music intro :10 shorter (as Aaron notes
above).

Sadly the 45 does not appear on Youtube so I have no
link to that.
So the folks who were hearing a different vocal take
between their LP and the 45 no
doubt have the 1st pressing LP version. The folks who
did not hear a different vocal
have the 2nd pressing LP version.

So to conclude we have:
1) Version 1 - 1st LP version, has drum-roll intro.
2) Version 2 - 2nd pressing LP version, new recording,
single-drum hit intro.
3) Version 3 - 45 version, a remix and edit of version
2, has 3 cymbal tap intro.

And the only one of these versions to ever make it to CD
is Version 2 - the 2nd pressing
LP version. It was on CD in Japan. I don't know how long
ago.

EDIT UPDATE: gathering info from Andy and Ron I
now
believe the first link I posted above is NOT the 1st
pressing LP version. as mentioned below, it a 1993
remake. So that leaves only TWO versions from 1981: the
LP version and the 45 version. Sorry about that!




Edited by MMathews