Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel (Question)
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Topic: Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel (Question)
Posted By: sriv94
Subject: Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel (Question)
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 12:22pm
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Was looking at some older posts and references are made to the edit version of this song. Can the 45 be extracted from the LP (I'm assuming the listed time of (5:48) is correct)? ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 2:51pm
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Doug:
Just checked on ebay. They have label scans of both the commercial and DJ 45's and they both have a label time of 5:48. Perhaps, the edit was on the flip side of the DJ 45. |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 3:08pm
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I think the edit was on the commercial side as well, John--the LP version runs (7:03). ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: Roscoe
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 3:34pm
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I timed the 45 at 5:46, but it was a little difficult to get the exact starting point (it's a fade-in), so I could be off by a second or so.
I can't remember the exact points, but the 45 truncates the intro and fades-in much later than the LP, and I think it has a truncated fade out. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 5:04pm
| Oops, my bad, I don't have that track in my active music library and hadn't played it for awhile, so I was unaware of the 7:03/5:48 difference. |
Posted By: eric_a
Date Posted: 04 September 2017 at 12:19pm
I believe the 45 version is just a late fade in and early fade out. Starting with the The Nylon Curtain, keep the section from 0:35 to 6:26. As others have mentioned, the chopper fade in/out gets lost in the noise on vinyl, so it's hard to be too precise, but boosting the sound, my promo copy seems to run at least 5:49, maybe 5:50, and is also about one second shorter due to speed variations. |
sriv94 wrote: