OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN- "Magic"
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Topic: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN- "Magic"
Posted By: abagon
Subject: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN- "Magic"
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 11:36pm
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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN- "Magic"
The actual 45 running time is (4:28), the listed time is "4:25" on the record label. (MCA 41247) |
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Posted By: Kiefer2
Date Posted: 02 September 2017 at 1:16am
| Has anyone ever heard of an "AC EDIT" of this track that removes the guitar solo? Someone on the Steve Hoffman board mentioned it as a legit release and, if anyone would know, you guys would. |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 02 September 2017 at 5:33am
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My copy is a promo, and it's just a double-A side version
of the stock single. Even uses the stock label with "promotion not for sale" printed on it. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 02 September 2017 at 6:44pm
I worked at an AC R&R reporter at the time, and don't ever recall seeing an "AC edit" come in for this title. My promo copy is the same as yours, with the star, "stereo" and promo copy info overprinted in black ink on the custom Xanadu stock label design on both sides. As I was looking it over, I noticed a small piece of paper stuffed inside the picture sleeve, thinking that it might be some mention about a different mix. Instead, it was simply a pronunciation guide ("pronounced ZAN-AH-DU... XANADU is the place where the "X" sounds like a "Z".) Keifer: by "removing the guitar solo," would that mean it was edited out or just mixed out? The latter would have been easy enough to do, since the guitar solo is exclusively in the left channel. I could see MCA copying the right channel during the solo portion and replacing the left channel content with it, then folding the result to mono and sending it out, but it almost certainly would have only been on tape or acetate, and even then, would have been sent only to key AC stations that told them they had a problem with the regular mix. That's actually a fairly mild electric guitar solo, even by 1980 AC standards. None of our listeners ever complained about it, and at five weeks number one AC in Billboard, I doubt very many others around the country did, either. Had MCA run into significant AC radio resistance, they would have been more likely to reservice a toned-down mix via seven-inch vinyl to all AC stations. |
Hykker wrote:Posted By: RichM921
Date Posted: 02 September 2017 at 7:58pm
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We had a station in our cluster 15 years ago that played that edit of
"Magic." But I don't think it was an official release. To describe it, the edit takes out the whole bridge solo. I'm not sure where the exact cut takes place but it's likely just before one of the "for you"s in the second chorus to just before a "for you" in the final chorus. That station also aired similar edits for "Cool Night" by Paul Davis and "Somewhere Out There" by Linda Rondstadt & James Ingram. |
Posted By: Kiefer2
Date Posted: 03 September 2017 at 3:20pm
| Thanks guys! It's good to have a panel of experts on board! |