BTO-TAKIN’CARE OF BUSINESS real edit
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Topic: BTO-TAKIN’CARE OF BUSINESS real edit
Posted By: Steve Carras
Subject: BTO-TAKIN’CARE OF BUSINESS real edit
Date Posted: 20 February 2025 at 9:38pm
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This is one of many "banned" edits that their performers
just won't allow,same with so many others.Just wish that the owners would release it.I still like both album and singles of all BTO songs, don't get me wrong, but I'm just a completist..:) ------------- You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney. |
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Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 21 February 2025 at 6:46am
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Not sure what you mean by "banned edits the performers won't allow". Are you referring to the 3:13 promo edit?
Most promo edits, regardless of artist were never intended to be made available to the public in the first place, simply a method to make a song more attractive to radio, whether for length, language, maybe a hotter mix. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 21 February 2025 at 10:19am
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Nowadays, Sirius, iHeart and other companies play the LP
versions pretty much for the older songs as it's what the public is used to as they stream those songs. There are still radio edits for current and recent songs, offered through subscription services like Promo Only. I have always preferred the single/45 versions and radio edits for the older songs. After all, isn't that why we are here on this forum to discover where to find them? :) ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: Steve Carras
Date Posted: 21 February 2025 at 8:27pm
I was being facetious,I mean the groups never allow the singles edits... the hit single edit did exist originally, in spring 1974. |
Hykker wrote:Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 21 February 2025 at 9:06pm
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The commercial 45 was the same length as the LP.
DJ promos contained the LP version and the 3:13 edit. ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
Posted By: Steve Carras
Date Posted: 22 February 2025 at 9:28am
thanks. ------------- You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney. |
Posted By: CountryPD
Date Posted: 22 February 2025 at 11:40am
My take is that there are several issues at play regarding single edits: One is that many of the programmers at those outlets featuring older music may not even be aware of the existence of single edits. Most may not have been alive or are old enough to remember when the song was a hit so they never heard it back in the day. For some it may also be a combination of don't know & don't care. Another factor is the availability of the single edits digitally or on CD. If a single edit is not readily accessible many programmers will just use the most easily available source rather than search out the original single hit version or go to the bother of acquiring a disc dub. Even when a single edit is available on CD they often choose to ignore it. Too many music programmers are musically unwise today. Not to mention some are running multiple channels or radio stations and do not have time to dig into the weeds to be sure they are using the correct version of a song that was actually played on the radio when it became a hit. Some programmers just may not care. After all, how many people are TRULY knowledgeable about multiple genres of music? Then there are a some programmers that do not believe in single edits and feel that the album versions are the only ones that should be aired. Some may have roots in album rock radio where there was always a distain for single edits. Those are but a few of the reasons why single edits may not be played. A local AM station in my area airs a syndicated oldies format. They play the LP versions of Spinning Wheel and 25 or 6 To 4. Annoying. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 23 February 2025 at 1:08am
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Couldn't agree more, Ken. It's funny, until I discovered
this forum in 2007, I always knew that some songs were shorter than what I had in my collection. And, thanks to the collectors input in all of the discussions here over the last 18 years, I now knew where to find the single versions and radio edits I didn't already have. ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 23 February 2025 at 6:55am
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There were also stations that played BOTH single edits and
longer album versions. My local favorite, KDWB, would often play the single version during the daytime and the album version on nights and/or on weekends. |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 23 February 2025 at 8:03am
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I think you've all hit the nail on the head. I've
thought about this often...while most of us here are quite familiar with single versions/edits from the '70s/'80s, etc., how many of today's music fans would even remember them? I've done some DJ work the last few years (mostly ballroom parties but I do throw some top 40 dance songs in there as well). Sometimes I'll play a version of a song that was unique to the 45 and hasn't been heard on the radio in years. Most people probably wouldn't even notice that the version of the song is a bit different, or pay that much attention to it. It seems for many, music is just sort of there and they don't pay much attention to the mix (or even lyrics, for that matter) as I do - and most of us here. Too bad really. |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 23 February 2025 at 8:22pm
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Really this is a topic for another thread, but I'll just add: Another factor is that for various reasons, especially in the '90s, if a casual listener heard a song they liked on the radio, then they may well have bought the album, and whatever version was on the album was what they ended up thinking of as the hit. It was the hit for them, in their car or apartment or whatever.
My girlfriend, who was a teenager in the '90s, pointed this out when I was ranting about how album versions have completely taken over and how people don't even remember that the single/radio versions even existed. I wish I could remember which song it was that set me off. It was one where the hit was a nice tight banger, and the LP version was comparatively dull and plodding. Sometimes the album would be quietly reissued with the hit version added or replacing the original, so not everyone has the same experience for a particular song. |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 23 February 2025 at 9:52pm
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There is an interesting phenomenon where, in certain cases, whatever versions were most widely available on CD have now become the one most familiar
because that is what has been on the radio since CDs (and audio files sourced from CDs) replaced analog sources in radio broadcasting. "Hungry Like The Wolf" is a good example. The "correct" US single mix sounds almost nothing like the UK mix that has been played on the airwaves, in movies and TV shows (not to mention Duran Duran compilations) and is basically now become the canonical "correct" version. ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |