Walk a Mile in My Shoes
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Topic: Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Posted By: BillCahill
Subject: Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 8:04pm
Does anybody know what radio played when this Joe South song was a minor hit? Reason I ask: I think every stereo CD of this song features the vocal completely out of phase, meaning if you played this mix on AM Radio in 1970 you wouldn't have heard his vocal at all.. it gets phased completely out in mono.
I picked up an original Capitol 45 today to verify that it was origninally screwed up. It's in stereo, but the INSTRUMENTATION phases out. So on the original 45, it's not the vocal that is cancelled out in mono but instrumentation.
You can't fix this song simply by flipping the phase. It must be messed up on the multrack meaning you can either have unphased instrumentation or unphased vocal, but not both.
When did the phase get flipped so the vocal cancelled out? For the LP version? If so, would the single edits in the book be unsuccessful attempts to recreate the single?
Yeah I know, a lot of discussion over a really screwed up production. Anybody have any information?
Bill
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 8:14pm
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What's interesting is that Jim sent me a "phase corrected" stereo version of this song. You can mono it without losing the vocal and instrumentation. I'll have to ask Jim how this version came to be. Jim?
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Posted By: Gary Mack
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 8:20pm
Our AM station played WAMIMS and you're right - in mono, the original Capitol 45 lost some of the music. In fact, I don't recall any mono promo copies, either. The problem was tolerable on AM, but today's FM stations and CDs really bring out the sound of that grungy, miswired studio.
GM
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Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 8:48pm
Hi Bill!
I believe the version on his album 'Don't It Make You Want To Go Home' was a completely different mix (some different instrumentation) with a longer fade with some phase problems, but not as egregious as the commercial single or those 180 degrees-flipped CD issues.
Unfortunately I no longer have that vinyl LP so I am going by memory, not fact. But I do still own the vinyl LP 'Joe South's Greatest Hits Vol. 1' which was issued the same year and contains that album mix.
Does anyone have a *mono* promo single and was it a dedicated mix or was it a Haeco-CSG processed fold-down?
I certainly don't remember hearing it on my AM radio in 1970 with anything buried in the mix.
Andy
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 11:30pm
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"Walk A Mile In My Shoes" is of my digital editing friend Bob's crowning achievements. He said he was able to fix this by dubbing the CD version onto a reel-to-reel tape, and then intentionally mis-aligning the tape heads until he got the out-of-kilter audio to properly phase. He got it, dubbed it this way onto his digital editor, then put the reel-to-reel heads back to their normal position, and gave me the finished product. Glad it meets with your approval, Aaron!
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 7:20am
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Wow! I was very impressed with that one, Jim. Very clever technique!
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Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 28 October 2006 at 6:34am
I just got a mono version of this that ends cold at about 4:07, runs slower and does not have the percussion hits during the intro, instead it has a bit of Joe humming. Anyone know what this version is?
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Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 28 October 2006 at 10:49am
Hello David,
The mix you are describing is the album version (apparently a mono version of it).
Andy
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 28 October 2006 at 6:37pm
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Was this LP ever issued in mono?
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Posted By: BillCahill
Date Posted: 29 October 2006 at 2:51pm
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The version missing the percussion hits on the intro and featuring a little humming is the same version on the promotional only CD Memories Are Made Of This Part 2, The 60's and beyond, part of an 8 CD boxed set sent to radio stations to celebrate Capitol Records 50th birthday in 1992. I orginally thought somebody just tried some phase fixing to get it in mono, but it appears to be a different mix, as you note. I would doubt somebody would go through the trouble for that promo CD to come up with a new mix but you never know. Or somebody pulled a different mix from the vault, dissatisfied with the phase trouble of all the others. Or just pulled the wrong tape. Since it's 4:07 as you note, I doubt it was on a promo 45 in mono this way. I also doubt there was a mono album. By 1970 Capitol was out of the mono business in LPs.
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Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 17 March 2010 at 2:20am
I picked up a promotional copy of this 45 yesterday. Unfortunately, it IS stereo, and matches the stock single version in it's out of phase mix. It also contains the original B side of the single, rather than a mono mix of this song on the flip.
Jim, I would love to hear your corrected stereo version.
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Live in stereo.
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Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 17 March 2010 at 5:36am
Does anyone know if this song is directed at someone in particular (much as Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th St" was part of a war-of-songs with Richard Farina)? It sounds too angry to be just a generic put-down.
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Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 20 March 2010 at 11:15am
No mono LP version extant at that time, the LP was Stereo only, even to Radio.
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I turn up the good and turn down the bad!
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 20 March 2010 at 12:35pm
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I ordered a UK copy of the 45 a few days ago, as someone on the Hoffman site said that the UK 45 was mono. Will keep everyone posted.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 14 July 2013 at 7:16pm
John, did you ever get your UK 45 in? (Even via "container ship", it should be
here by now!) :) And was it in mono?
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Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 14 July 2013 at 8:12pm
There is one on ebay now... but paypal and my bank dont like me so i dont order from overseas sellers now.... but the matrix number on the label seems to match every other release of the tune ive seen worldwide (only some of the labels say stereo, it doesnt mean the others are mono though).
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Live in stereo.
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 15 July 2013 at 10:01am
Jim, yes I did receive it. Turns out it was 'electronic'
stereo (correct term, I believe). Though, when folded to
mono, it doesn't seem as out of phase as what Tom reports
with his.
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Posted By: BradOlson
Date Posted: 02 September 2016 at 7:24am
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What I did for my AM radio station is folded down the Retrospect CD version to mono for the instrumental backing track, and then send everything to the left for the vocals, and then made a 2-track mono mix which does sound great for AM radio and it folded down to a single channel well doing this.
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Posted By: Steve Carras
Date Posted: 03 September 2016 at 10:26am
A MINOR hit?? I thought this was a major one myself (I live in Southern Calif. ... maybe it was bigger there..?)
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Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 03 September 2016 at 4:55pm
Yeah, I'd say a song that peaked at #12 in Billboard and Cashbox isn't really minor, but YMMV.
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Doug
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All of the good signatures have been taken.
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