Grass Roots-"Let’s Live For Today"
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Topic: Grass Roots-"Let’s Live For Today"
Posted By: jimct
Subject: Grass Roots-"Let’s Live For Today"
Date Posted: 28 March 2007 at 2:23am
| Pat: Someone recently mentioned on another Board that, from the 1:40-1:47 mark of this song, the lyric "feel you beside me" is repeated twice on the 45, but on the CD versions, during this same segment, the lyric is instead sung as "feel you deep inside (of) me," repeated twice as well. To confirm, I just listened to my original 45, as well as my Rhino 2-CD Grass Roots' Anthology. I can confirm that the poster was 100% correct with his info, and the database will need to be amended to reflect this. Since I only checked just the one CD, hopefully at least one of this song's many other CD appearances in the database will happen to have included the "45 lyric." |
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 28 March 2007 at 5:42am
| Ah but Jim, the catch is that there were two pressings of the 45 of "Let's Live For Today" with the first pressing including the "LP lyrics" of "feel you deep inside of me". To date, all cd appearances feature the lyric line "feel you inside of me". |
Posted By: Bob Lovely
Date Posted: 28 March 2007 at 3:03pm
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I do not believe the Mono "hit" mix has appeared on CD...
Bob ------------- Just give me the hits... |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 28 March 2007 at 4:42pm
| Pat, thanks for those additional details. I pulled out my promo 45, and it DOES include, as you word it, the "LP lyrics", with deadwax of D-01099. I have a feeling there might be a second promo out there, featuring the more-1967-radio-friendly "beside me" lyric. Can anybody help? I have 3 copies of the original 45, Pat, all featuring the "beside me" lyric. The deadwaxes for all three are "45-01099RE". The "RE" is in small capital latters, is half the size of the other info, making it look like it's a "footnote." Pat, does your stock 45 have "D-01099" as deadwax? |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 28 March 2007 at 6:46pm
| My only commercial copy has the RE suffix. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 7:36pm
| As a further note for my "beside me" lyric, 1967 commercial 45, it has a listed time of (2:35), but an actual time of (2:44). |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:43am
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I know i'm just splitting hairs here, but the digital dub I have of my 45 is 2:44.731 which i would personally round up to say 2:45 (the file was edited so that all dead silence was cut out at the beginning and the song starts dead on at 0:00.00). This is an older dub left on my computer from when the discussion about the alternate version was first brought up, but was still dubbed using my Stanton STR8-80 direct drive turntable, i would be happy to re-time the 45 with a new digital dub in a few weeks when everything is moved to its new home and i have time to dig it out, if anyone feels it would help contribute more to the accuracy of the timing. Personally, though, if Jim got 2:44 that is good enough for me and is definitely close enough to what my dub shows. ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 2:55am
| Tom, whenever you've done a digital dub, down to the 1/100th of a second, I'll go with the technology here. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 7:01am
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For what it's worth, I don't round up numbers when I time music. My opinion is that if our goal is to obtain pinpoint accurate run times, then a song doesn't officially run 2:45 until is actually hits the 2:45:00 mark on a digital timer. Granted, a song that fades out can be more subjective from one set of ears to another as to when an audio signal is no longer heard. In those cases, if I determine a song finishes fading out at between, say, the 2:44.9 and 2:45.00 mark, then I'll go with 2:45.
Again, this is just one passionate collector's method to his madness. I won't lose sleep if other board members prefer to round a run time up to the nearest half second. |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 14 August 2022 at 11:37am
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Just adding a question to this old thread. I have two
different stereo mixes of "Let's Live For Today" in my collection. The first mix, which I have on The Grass Roots 20th Century Masters and Rhino's 2 disc Anthology, has a wider soundstage with most of the instrumentation hard panned to the left channel and the lead vocals going right to left on the first verse. The other stereo mix I have on Madacy's Various Artists Spirit of The 60s disc (which is a single-disc version of Cornerstone's 2-CD set of the same name). This mix has most of the instrumentation and lead vocal centered with other stereo information occurring mostly during the chorus. Where did this alternate stereo mix originate? ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 14 August 2022 at 4:49pm
MCA LP compilation 'Vintage Music Vol.10'. "Let's Live For Today" was remixed (and mastered) by Steve Hoffman. Andy |
LunarLaugh wrote:Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 15 August 2022 at 11:58am
This may sound like an odd question, but there were two types of CDs released in the "Vintage Music" catalog. The first, (I suppose), was a single disc per issue. And another was taking two issues together on a single CD. Were the mastering credits the same for both? I don't have the one issue per CD versions, But I do have the vinyl versions. ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 15 August 2022 at 12:25pm
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Not an odd question at all.
As far as I know, the individual releases (10 tracks per disc) had the same mastering as the paired-up releases (20 tracks per disc). I think I verified this myself a long time ago with Vol. 8. Steve Hoffman mastered the first ten volumes. No mastering credit given to the second ten volumes. I still haven't figured out why they were released as both individual and paired-up configurations. Different price points, so that it was less expensive to buy a 20-track disc than two 10-track discs? Not sure. ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 16 August 2022 at 8:24am
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Here's how my memory goes...
Vintage Music volumes 1 thru 10 (ten tracks a piece) were released as single budget-priced albums and cassettes in 1986. The dubs were a revelation to my ears. I quickly bought all ten volumes. Later on (possibly the same year) 5 regularly-priced CDs came out with 2 LPs worth of tracks (20 cuts a piece) making them a must-purchase as by that time I owned a CD player. This is where my memory gets extra fuzzy: a few years later the first 5 CDs were split into 10 budget-priced CDs (like the original LPs/cassettes) under possibly a different (albeit similar) title. No need for me to buy them as I liked the 20 track CDs... Experts out there please correct me where I'm wrong! Andy |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 18 August 2022 at 10:25am
Actually, there's a third stereo mix of this with the lead vocals hard-panned to the right, and background vocals hard panned to the left. I have this on an Era/K-Tel comp called "Battle Of The Bands-Vol. 2". Any idea where this mix came from? |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 18 August 2022 at 10:50pm
Do the lead vocals stay in the in right for the entire song, or do they drift over to the left right before the chorus? ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 19 August 2022 at 3:59am
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My copy of 'Battle Of The Bands Vol. 2' has Grill's lead
vox stay on the left; Entner's countdown on the right. I, too, would like to find where this mix originated as this transfer has undecoded Dolby marring the sound quality and I wouldn't mind having a better-sounding version of this mix. Andy |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 19 August 2022 at 4:38pm
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My copy of this is buried in the closet and
I can't currently access it, but I believe a lot of tracks were remixed on this: https://www.discogs.com/release/2584263-The- Grassroots-The-ABC-Collection ------------- Live in stereo. |