"Tonight’s the Night..." - Rod Stewart
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Topic: "Tonight’s the Night..." - Rod Stewart
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Tonight’s the Night..." - Rod Stewart
Date Posted: 19 March 2009 at 10:33pm
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There's an edited version of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" on two database CDs that is also missing the closing female overdubs. Out of curiosity, was this version ever issued on a promo 45? I'm too young to remember if it got any airplay on Top 40 radio, but I've heard soft rock stations play it from time to time over the years (they likely spun it directly from the Greatest Hits album). I actually like the edited version's ending better with just the instrumentation and minus the French female's bombastic cooing.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 20 March 2009 at 12:38am
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Todd, just responding off the top of my head here, I remember many years ago at my station changing the "source" of that song from his "A Night On The Town" album to his "Greatest Hits" album in our main studio, not thinking that the ending was any big deal while trying to free up a source # for a newly-added song. Within days, one of our lovable-but-always-opinionated air personalities wrote up a "music discrepancy", wondering, "why have we swapped out the definitive, classic Britt Ekland LP version of this song in favor of the vastly inferior, no-Britt 45 version?" Being no big deal to me, I immediately put the LP version back in rotation! (I have a feeling that same jock wouldn't have liked you very much either, Todd! :) ) My memory always was that the 45 faded out before Britt Ekland. I haven't pulled my 45 out tonight to compare, but I'm 90% sure about it.
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Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 20 March 2009 at 5:17am
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Nope, she's on the 45 too.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 20 March 2009 at 6:41am
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For what it's worth, I should emphasize that I have no problem whatsoever with sexy female voices on recordings. ;-) This is just one case where I think the song's ending works better without one, but I'm sure my opinion probably represents a minority!
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Posted By: Bill Cahill
Date Posted: 20 March 2009 at 6:53am
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My recollection is that Rod and Britt split and she sued for royalties on Tonight's the Night, so Rod or the label just took her off the Greatest Hits LP version. So she was always there on the promo 45, stock 45, and original LP. It was on Greatest Hits that she was excised.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 20 March 2009 at 1:06pm
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Thanks for the correct, additional details, Steve and Bill. When I first read Todd's post, I was just about to hit the hay and didn't have the energy left to put the "hard hat" on and troll through/locate the correct 1976 45 box and listen to it at that instant. Thanks also for confirming that Britt wasn't on the Greatest Hits LP version. And now that you mention it, I do remember the ugly split/royalty lawsuit that Rod and Ekland had, which explains it.
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