Theme from Mahogany - Diana Ross
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Topic: Theme from Mahogany - Diana Ross
Posted By: EdisonLite
Subject: Theme from Mahogany - Diana Ross
Date Posted: 14 September 2007 at 5:08pm
| On Diana's "To Love Again" CD, it lists Theme From Mahogany as "single mix". But according to Pat's database, there is only one version of the song. Is there truly only one mix of this song -- or a single and album mix -- or is the version on "To Love Again" more accurately described as "alternate mix"? |
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 15 September 2007 at 1:48am
| Yeah, I don't hear any difference on that mix... I never could figure out why it says, "Single Mix," unless the soundtrack version is different. |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 15 September 2007 at 12:39pm
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I find that sometimes, a tape box is labeled "single mix", so that's what they copy printers put in the liner notes. Maybe there was a different mix, LP mix, or soundtrack mix that was never issued. There are probably several reasons of it. ------------- |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 16 December 2007 at 9:30pm
| My commercial 45 has a listed time of (3:19), but an actual time of (3:22). |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 5:04pm
| Did there exist a CLEAN vinyl copy of this? Every copy of the single I've ever run across (I'm talking new, previously unplayed copies, not junk from the dime bin at a record convention) has been full of tics & pops. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 6:22pm
| My best luck with ANYTHING Motown vinyl from the 70's and 80's is a white label promo copy. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 7:20pm
| My white label promo copy is pressed on yellow vinyl, and sounds fine. The "Sweet Love" DJ 45 by The Commodores was also shipped on yellow vinyl at roughly the same time. |
Posted By: bell
Date Posted: 18 December 2007 at 12:50am
Motown 45's in the 60's were no picnic either. But since most songs were up-tempo, the hiss and other anomalies were better hidden. |
eriejwg wrote:Posted By: BillCahill
Date Posted: 19 December 2007 at 9:37am
| I was at WTRY and we got to the point with Motown product where we would demand a 15ips tape dub. And we'd get it. I remember specifically getting one for "With You I'm Born Again" by Preston/Syretta as it was unplayable, even with the white label promo. They used really cheap vinyl. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 19 December 2007 at 2:16pm
| Bill, we had to do the exact same thing at our station, especially for the many sparse, slow Commodores/Lionel Richie hit releases. And, like Bill hints, Motown would always bellyache about having to send out the clean-sounding, 15ips reel-to-reel tapes, but they always would. And thank goodness for them, because it would've been pop/click city on-the-air for us without 'em! I wonder if any of those old 15ips tapes ever pop up on eBay? |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 19 December 2007 at 2:37pm
Technical question--would those have been used for carting purposes, or were those reels how they were played on-air? ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 19 December 2007 at 6:57pm
| Doug, they were all carted up in our station's production studio. I don't think any other station would've ever done it any differently. I can't even imagine asking our jocks to cue up a reel-to-reel tape, just to play one song! You never know, though... |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 19 December 2007 at 7:25pm
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Thanks Jim. I kinda figured that was the case.
I do know of one radio station in (suburban) Chicago that basically programmed all of their music off of four huge reel-to-reel tapes (all were vinyl dubs). If something a DJ wanted to play wasn't on one of the reels or couldn't be cued quickly enough, they retrieved a vinyl copy. (Eventually they gravitated to CDs, but it took a long while.) ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: Gary Mack
Date Posted: 19 December 2007 at 7:25pm
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin, none of the Top 40 stations I worked for from 1964-1980 ever had a problem with noisy Motown pressings. I was so picky about pops & clicks and off-center pressings that I was the one who wound up making sure we had clean records to play. We rarely carted music, except with hard-to-find oldies or special edits.
As a result, when our stations (Phoenix, Wichita, Dallas-Fort Worth) added a new record to our playlist, I always asked record companies or local distributors for 5 or 10 promo copies....and we usually got them. The "leftovers" were later used for oldies play. GM |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 19 December 2007 at 8:02pm
| Wow, Gary, you must've got your Motown promo 45s pressed at a "higher quality" plant, that serviced Top 40 stations out west; I have seen a wide quality disparity in various 70's Motown promo 45s, even for the same song. I am amazed that you had pop-and-clickless promo 45 copies for "Still" and "Three Times A Lady"; I believe you, though. But, trust me, some of us "out east" had no choice; calling Motown for reel-to-reels was not something we really wanted to bother with, I assure you! |
Posted By: prisdeej
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 5:19pm
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Something sounds odd on the opening note on TM Century version. The intro is truncated for a split second. If anyone has been able to compare the two you can hear what I mean. ------------- DJ L. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 5:30pm
I've wondered that, too. For some reason I'm thinking that I found out that the version in the film is a little bit different, has a different vocal take in some parts of the song or something, and that's why it's called "Single Version." But I'm not really sure. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 5:31pm
It was like that on its first CD appearance, way back on the early '80s "Diana Ross - Compact Command Performances" CD. |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 20 August 2016 at 7:50pm
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The version on Compact Command Performance 14 Greatest Hits (1984) is missing the first 0.3 seconds of the opening note. It's very noticeable in a side-by-side comparison.
The following CDs are all differently-EQ'd digital clones of Compact, and also miss the the first 0.3 seconds of the opening note:
The CDs (that I have) that have the opening note intact are a mixed bag:
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Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 16 August 2020 at 11:14pm
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I only have this song on two discs. One is the the 2003
Diana Ross & The Supremes "The #1's" compilation that gathers stereo remixes of the group's number one hits alongside Diana's solo number ones. The other place I have it is the 2006 "Definitive Collection". However these two mixes seem to be different. The bass in the intro of "Definitive..." is mixed just slightly more prominently and there is a small cymbal swell before the vocal comes in on "The #1's" that isn't present on "Definitive". Both sound good but I'm not sure which is the correct one as I don't have another source for them. ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |