RUPERT HOLMES - "Answering Machine"
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Topic: RUPERT HOLMES - "Answering Machine"
Posted By: abagon
Subject: RUPERT HOLMES - "Answering Machine"
Date Posted: 16 July 2008 at 10:53pm
RUPERT HOLMES - "Answering Machine"
The actual 45 running time is (3:36), the listed time is "3:29" on the record label. (MCA 41235)
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 8:31pm
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"Answering Machine" has appeared on two database CDs to date, but both run shorter than the 45 at 3:32 and 3:29, respectively. Does anyone have the 1981 vinyl LP release of Rupert Holmes' Partners in Crime who can report to us the run time for "Answering Machine"?
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Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 18 July 2008 at 5:49pm
Ooh, one i can actually answer!
Just got it, time on the album label says 3:45 but actual run time is 3:36.
I should note, the audio level between 3:28 - 3:36 is so low I had to turn everything way up to get the last traces....it's a long-trailing fade. I could see where whoever was mastering the cd might not have heard it, and just faded it where they thought there was silence. Just a theory. -MM
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 18 July 2008 at 9:46pm
MMathews
Ooh, one i can actually answer!
you made me laugh!!!!
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edtop40
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 19 July 2008 at 6:44am
Glad you could help, Mark. Thanks!
Your theory regarding the ultra low audio at the end of the song on your LP is certainly plausible as to why the last few seconds may have gotten faded out early on CD.
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Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 06 February 2021 at 1:05am
My understanding is that the correct 45-LP version running at 3:36 comes from this compilation from the UK.
https://www.discogs.com/Rupert-Holmes-The-Best-Of-Rupert-Hol mes-Escape/release/1107238 - https://www.discogs.com/Rupert-Holmes-The-Best-Of-Rupert-Hol mes-Escape/release/1107238
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