Petula Clark-"Downtown"
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Topic: Petula Clark-"Downtown"
Posted By: jimct
Subject: Petula Clark-"Downtown"
Date Posted: 07 August 2010 at 12:16am
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Veteran Board super-sleuth Todd Ireland e-mailed me recently, inquiring about some original listed/actual 45 timings for database songs from 1965/66/67, and today I was able to address the list. The "Downtown" 45 was issued just as WB was transitioning from their red, "arrows" label to their mid-60's orange label, on which most commercial 45 copies appeared. Both are confirmed as WB 5494, and have listed times of (2:58). My red label copy has an actual time of (3:01), with handwritten deadwax of "GA14252-3". My orange label copy has an actual time of (3:02), with machine-stamped deadwax of "GA -14252-1H". FYI, current database timings for this song's original recording range from (3:01) to (3:08).
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Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 01 April 2011 at 5:10am
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 01 April 2011 at 9:30pm
Fetta brought up the following in another thread:
"Something I just noticed with "Downtown" by Petula Clark.......
at the 2:03 mark in the song during the instrumental break when she sings "Downtown", she goes up an octave on all the appearances that I have on CD. This did not occur on the original 45 version.
So is this a stereo vs. mono issue since all but one (which I don't have) of the songs CD appearance are in Stereo? If so, would all of these versions be categorized as "Stereo LP version"...
Thoughts?"
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Nice catch, Fetta. I'd be curious to know if the song's lone mono database CD appearance contains the correct 45 version, or if it's a fold-down of the LP version.
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Posted By: Fetta
Date Posted: 01 April 2011 at 10:04pm
I just picked up a copy of the O.S.T. Twin Town (which has the mono version of "Downtown")in like new condition for $.01 on Amazon(there are a few left for the same price). I will follow up when i receive it in a few days unless someone else beats me to it.
-Jeff
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