Marmalade-"Reflections Of My Life"

It's one of the easier edits you'll make. Counting 1 2 3 4, it's right on the downbeat of 1 -- as the strings decrescendo at 1:43 -- and at 2:23 a few beats before "I'm changing, arranging."

Tom:

We bow to you, sir, in finding that promo 45!

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYXR4fG95mU

Pat has all the correct lengths posted for everything involving this song in the database.

And I did finally get a 1970 promo copy, and discovered that there is a different edit point on the mono promo and the stereo re-issue that London
records put out, probably in the early 80's.

The 1970 edit point also matches the edit point on the 1974 London Special Products (Brookville Records) "English Cats and Others", which re-
channeled the edit to fake stereo. So that LP contains the original edit point.

When London records created the early 80's re-issue (guessing again the release date) they made the edit point slightly later, and didn't fade out
the song early, so that ran 3:34. The stereo was also narrowed. But they printed the time at 3:18 which matched the actual run time of the 1970
promo.

Then in the digital age, Polygram Special Products released their CD "One Hit Wonders" where apparently, somebody grabbed the early 80's reissue
tape, didn't narrow it but loaded it on to a broken reel to reel machine, so the song starts at the right speed and then quickly drags down to a way
too slow sounding transfer. But whomever threw that together probably had never heard the song and didn't know any different. Which is why it runs
3:47.

I suppose that makes it an unsuccessful attempt at re-creating the DJ edit, and runs much slower than the 45 or LP.

Interesting how many times they managed to get a single song wrong.