Adam Wade
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Topic: Adam Wade
Posted By: satchdr
Subject: Adam Wade
Date Posted: 20 March 2007 at 12:05am
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As the database indicates, the original 45 versions of Adam Wade's "Take Good Care Of Her" and "As If I Didn't Know" are not on domestic CD. I have located each of these songs on two different Ace Records compilations. The former tune is on a compilation called "Teenage Crush" and the latter on a compilation entitled "Golden Age Of American Popular Music." I have emailed various folks at Ace to ask if these are the original 45 versions but have not received a response and I'm not buying them unless I confirm that they are. Does anyone know if these Ace compilations contain the originals or, in the alternative, where you can get the originals on an import CD? Thanks much for any insights. Dan
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Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 20 March 2007 at 5:54am
on The Golden Age of American Popular Music, "As If I Didn't Know" is a stereo alternate version. I do not know about the Teenage Crush CD.
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Posted By: Bob Lovely
Date Posted: 20 March 2007 at 6:17am
On Teenage Crush, "Take Good Care Of Her" is the Stereo LP mix.
Bob
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Just give me the hits...
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 20 March 2007 at 5:51pm
Wow, I didn't realize the alternate take of Adam Wade's "Take Good Care of Her" is actually the LP version. The database should probably be updated to reflect this.
For those who don't already know, the 45 version of "Take Good Care of Her" is on tap to make its domestic CD debut next month on the ERIC record label compilation: Hard to Find 45's on CD Volume 10: (1960-1965)! The scheduled release date is April 17.
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 20 March 2007 at 6:09pm
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I was not aware of the alternate take being the stereo LP version either. Does anyone have the mono LP that you can check to see if that also has the alternate take?
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Posted By: satchdr
Date Posted: 20 March 2007 at 9:51pm
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Thanks to everyone for the information and I'm glad to see that Eric is coming out with another one of their great "hard to find 45s" compilations. Dan
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Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 20 March 2007 at 10:00pm
The stereo versions for both songs are technically the LP versions, as they were first issued on the lp Adam Wade's Greatest Hits on EPIC, where the other alternate takes showed up for the first time as well. These are all likely from the same sessions as the Coed hits but are not the same takes. Epic wouldn't have had him re-record everything with full orchestras, costing the company lots of extra unnecessary money, if the original multitrack session tapes still existed and could be quickly mixed for a stereo lp. That is basically what I was told from a guy who worked at Epic at the time..he also said that the mono lp very likely used mono fold-downs of the stereo mixes.
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Live in stereo.
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Posted By: smvceo
Date Posted: 05 August 2007 at 7:00am
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Adam Wades's Coed hits were re-recorded for Epic. Coed never mixed his singles to stereo. There were two Coed LPs, one of which is stereo. These are available on Collectables as a 2-fer, but the CD contains no hits. Epic never issued any of the original Coed masters, since they don't own them. Post Records owns them.
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Posted By: satchdr
Date Posted: 05 August 2007 at 7:57am
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Thanks, smvceo, for the additional information on Adam Wade. One would think that Post Records would want to release the original Coed hits on its own "greatest hits" CD. It always amazes me when there's a gap in the digital releases of one artist's material when it could be so easily remedied. Fortunately, until that release occurs, I've purchased a mint copy of the Coed 45 of "As If I Didn't Know" through eBay (together with the original picture sleeve.) Dan
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Posted By: smvceo
Date Posted: 05 August 2007 at 9:39pm
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I will point out that "As If I Didn't Know" has a bogus edit on the 45. I've got a master "ready-to-go" with the edit repaired that will probably appear on a forthcoming release, although nothing is cast in cement as of this writing.
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Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 24 February 2016 at 10:53am
Thanks to Google Books, it looks like the "Who owns the Adam Wade Coed masters?" mystery has finally been solved. On Page 5 of the June 2, 1962, issue of Billboard, the third paragraph of a piece with the headline "Open Season For Signing Disk Artists" reads:
"Another facet of the Adam Wade Epic deal was also brought to light last week. The Wade disks originally released on the Coed label will go to Epic as part of the signing deal and will be reissued on the singer's new label."
There have been two multi-artist Coed label retrospectives released that I know of, one by Collectables in the US and one by Ace in the UK (I don't have either). This would explain why neither contains any Adam Wade material.
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Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 24 February 2016 at 3:06pm
Yes that info is correct. smvceo's info about re-recording
for Epic was not the case, Epic took possession of all the
Coed tapes. The versions of "As If I Didn't Know" and
"Take Good Care Of Her" are indeed simply alternate takes.
FYI, one reason "As I Didn't Know" does not match the 45
is the 45 was edited together from several takes. Two of
the splices on the mono master are rather obvious.
MM
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