The Grassroots-"The River Is Wide"
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Topic: The Grassroots-"The River Is Wide"
Posted By: jimct
Subject: The Grassroots-"The River Is Wide"
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 10:07pm
| FYI, for some reason, this group released three 1969 database singles (The River Is Wide/Bella Linda/Lovin' Things) with their group name as one long word, before switching back to their traditional "The Grass Roots" spelling. My "The River Is Wide" commercial 45, which is mono and confirmed as Dunhill/ABC 4187, has a listed time of (2:30), but an actual time of (2:38). Pat, the only current database CD that you have notated as the "45 version" for this song runs :12 longer than my 45 does, at (2:50), while 3 of the 4 current database CDs that you have noted as "LP version" run (2:38), exactly the same as my 45 does. Are their any specific differences you hear that enabled you to distinguish between the 45 and LP versions of the song? |
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Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 15 June 2008 at 5:30am
| Just going from memory, the album version has thunder sound effects at the beginning which are not present on the 45. Also, as with most Dunhill 45s of that era, the single sounds like a completely different take of the song than the album version, at the very least it's mixed VERY differently. |
Posted By: jcr102
Date Posted: 15 June 2008 at 7:53am
| What's interesting is, that the Canadian RCA single of The River Is Wide does have the thunder at the start, suggesting it must be the LP version. I've this to be the case with at least a couple of other singles, where the Canadian release appears to be from the LP. For example, Neil Diamond's Red Red Wine appears to have been the album version, without the background singers. |
Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 16 June 2008 at 5:47am
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and another....Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue" CAD 45 fades in with crowd noises over the guitar, as opposed to the U.S. 45 (discussed on another thread). ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 11:57pm
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Three Dog Night's Joy To The World canadian single on RCA Victor was a mono fold-down of the album version. ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 March 2014 at 8:52pm
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Bumping this up... ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: jono
Date Posted: 05 March 2014 at 1:14pm
(from the "Grass Roots The Complete Original Dunhill" thread) My 45 matches Aaron's exactly. |
aaronk wrote:Posted By: Bill Cahill
Date Posted: 05 March 2014 at 6:14pm
| I also posted in the Complete Original thread that my stock 45 runs 2:35, it's a faster pitch, with 01299 on the deadwax of side A and 01300 on the deadwax of side 2. |
Posted By: jono
Date Posted: 05 March 2014 at 9:35pm
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Just to be clear...
At least in my case, the dead wax info that I referenced in Aaron's post above was on the same side of the 45. That is, side A, or "The River Is Wide", contains both the "01299" and the "(delta)75492" in the dead wax, just on opposite sides across from each other...or at least 1/3 of a turn. The flip side, "(You Gotta) Live For Love" has dead wax info of "01300", and then "(delta)75492-X" about 1/4 turn away. Jon O. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 06 March 2014 at 8:58am
| My commercial copy is also the 2:38-length Monarch styrene pressing. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 06 March 2014 at 12:06pm
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Jon O, yes, I probably should have written that clearer. The deadwax info I
posted is all on the A-side of the 45. I shouldn't have used the phrase "other side," because what I meant is exactly what you said. The "(delta)75492" is about a 1/3 turn away from the 01299. Same side of the 45, but at different positions, almost across from each other. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: Bill Cahill
Date Posted: 22 March 2014 at 3:53pm
| I re-examined my copy, there is no Delta 75492 on either side. Also, side two is actually 1300-1. Very small on the A side you can see something written in that looks like "ET" (or J3 upside down). That's on both sides, but on the B side there is also something that looks like a "DT". Not type set, it's all handwritten. It's a black label stock copy but it could be a boot. I've certainly run into Dunhill boots before, Especially on "Joy to the World". |