"Mr. Bojangles" - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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   I have ordered a dj copy of "Mr. Bojangles" and when I receive it, I will update everyone and change the database entries if necessary.

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Moderator Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 10 July 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Moderator Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 January 2006 at 9:20pm
	I have ordered a dj copy of "Mr. Bojangles" and when I receive it, I will update everyone and change the database entries if necessary.
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	OK I have obtained the dj 45 of Mr. Bojangles and now I can try to explain the history of Mr. Bojangles. The dj copy does not indicate a "plug" side but one side is Mr. Bojangles with the Uncle Charlie prologue running (5:15) and the flip side is Mr. Bojangles with the Uncle Charlie prologue edited out running (3:35). There were 2 different commercial 45's of Mr. Bojangles. The first featured Mr. Bojangles with the Uncle Charlie prologue and a flip side titled "Uncle Charlie Interview #2/Spanish Fandango" which runs (2:30) not (2:36) as stated on the record label. The 2nd commercial 45 features Mr. Bojangles with the Uncle Charlie prologue but the flip side is an alternate take of Mr. Bojangles. When I tried to explain all of this in the "title comments" in the database I found that I exceeded the currently allowable character string length so I will have my programmer give me more space and eventually this explanation will appear in the "title comments" section.
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EdisonLite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 18 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote EdisonLite Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 January 2006 at 9:25pm
	<The 2nd commercial 45 features Mr. Bojangles with the Uncle Charlie prologue but the flip side is an alternate take of Mr. Bojangles. > So, Pat, in your opinion, what is the version on "Super Hits of the '70s, Vol. 4"? You formerly had labeled this the "45 version". Would you now consider this an alternate version, a radio version, or 1 (of 2) 45 versions? I ask because I wasn't listening to radio in 1971, so if I want to use the version (i.e mix) that WAS played on the radio back then, would the mix on "Super Hits of the '70s" qualify? (And I welcome anyone else's opinion on this matter, too.) Edited by EdisonLite

Todd Ireland Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Todd Ireland Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 January 2006 at 9:41pm
	Thanks for the update, Pat. What I find most interesting about your findings is that the Uncle Charlie prologue appears on all commercial and DJ 45 copies, and yet I don't believe I've ever heard the prologue on the radio. (Granted, I wasn't around in 1971 to hear how Top 40 stations at the time were playing the song!) Edited by Todd Ireland

EdisonLite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 18 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote EdisonLite Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 January 2006 at 2:18am
	I, too, have never heard the Uncle Charlie Prologue on the radio, and though I wasn't listening to the radio in '71, I did start listening in '72.

Chris Quinn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 20 January 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Chris Quinn Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 January 2006 at 2:59am
	Back when this song was on the charts, we played both sides of the DJ 45 at WIXY 1260 in Cleveland. The longer version with the talk intro would get played between 7PM and 6AM only, when time would allow for such "extended" versions. I still have an original DJ 45 in my collection. Can't really say how other markets aired the record. Chris Quinn

Moderator Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 10 July 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Moderator Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 January 2006 at 6:22am
	Just look in the database for the answer to your question of how I now describe the version of Mr. Bojangles on the Rhino cd "Superhits of The 70's Vol. 4".
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EdisonLite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 18 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote EdisonLite Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 January 2007 at 9:47pm
	Can someone explain the difference in the guitar parts of the different intros? I'm comparing the intro of "Super Hits Vol. 4" with "Best Of" and it seems like the same notes are played on both versions, to me.

EdisonLite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 18 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote EdisonLite Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 February 2007 at 1:01am
	Tom Diehl -- what is the difference that you heard in the guitar intro parts between the Curb CD and the "Twenty Years of Dirt" CD? I assume my "Super Hits vol. 4" CD and "Best Of" contain these 2 different recordings as well, and I can't hear the difference, but since you're the only one on the board that's pointed out there's a difference in those guitar parts, I was hoping you could elaborate.

TomDiehl1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 January 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote TomDiehl1 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 February 2007 at 7:14am
	It is literally just a 4 second difference. Download the following mp3 (right click on it to download is necessary): NGDB a/b I synced up the guitar intros from the Twenty Years Of Dirt cd (right channel, this had to be speed corrected as it ran faster in speed), and the Super Hits Of the 70's: Have A Nice Day Vol. 4 cd (left channel)....and i made an mp3 of just the first couple seconds of the song as that is where the difference is... Edited by TomDiehl1
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