Jay & The Americans-"This Magic Moment"
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Topic: Jay & The Americans-"This Magic Moment"
Posted By: jimct
Subject: Jay & The Americans-"This Magic Moment"
Date Posted: 07 June 2008 at 12:46am
| Pat, my commercial 45, which is mono, and confirmed as United Artists 50475, has a listed time of (2:50) and an actual time of (2:49). Besides a wide range of database CD timings currently existing for this song, I post this info because your current database note for this song states "actual 45 and LP running time is (2:38) not (2:50) as stated on the record label". I can't speak to your LP findings, Pat, but my actual 45 timing came in :11 seconds longer than you have specified. FYI, my 45's deadwax info is simply "UA-2915". There is also an "11-4-68" written to the right of it, and a reversed "16117" written to the left. |
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Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 08 June 2008 at 1:05am
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I have the exact same pressing as Jim, and my timing lines up with his at 2:49 for the song. Also, where it says 11-4-68 in the dead wax, it appears the 11 is scratched over the number 6, so perhaps there was an earlier shorter pressing of the 45. ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 09 June 2008 at 9:42pm
| Well shame on me as I timed the reissue 45 which does run (2:38). Database has been updated to reflect the correct 45 time. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 06 September 2009 at 2:16pm
| Revisiting this, can anyone give a start and end point for the 45's fade? |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 08 September 2009 at 9:18pm
Sure, John. The fade begins at 2:30 (audible at 2:32) and is out at 2:50. |
eriejwg wrote:Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 08 September 2009 at 10:53pm
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I never noticed this until I got a promotional copy of the 45.....This Magic Moment started out as the B side of the release. My promotional copy also runs 2:49 like my stock copy but the deadwax is a little different from Jim's copy. It says 11-4-68 in the trail out, but also says ODO and has a monarch stamp and delta number (triangle 73985-X -- the X would go on the B side of the release). ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 24 June 2015 at 7:25am
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what about the version on "The Complete United Artists Singles"? does
it fade later than the 45 or is it a speed issue. I do not have the CD...yet. ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 31 August 2022 at 5:18pm
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Can anyone tell what the difference is between the LP mix
and the 45 mix? THX MM |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 31 August 2022 at 6:40pm
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I don't hear a lot of difference between the mono 45 and
the original LP mix. However, whenever I've heard this song on the radio within the past 10 or so years, it's been the remix on the Capitol Collector's Series CD (noise reduction and all). ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 01 September 2022 at 7:32am
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As far as I know, I no longer have my copy
of the Sands Of Time lp. I am pretty sure it left during my album purge earlier this year, as I had to make room for a visiting guest and had to condense the collection down enough to get everything to fit into the milk crates in my closet. That said, I seem to recall that the mix on my lp for this song was very weird, with the vocals drifting from channel to channel, and I recall Jay's vocals starting in just one channel. Am I remembering this wrong? It has been a few years since I had played the lp. ------------- Live in stereo. |