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Topic: Games People Play - Joe South

Posted By: Ringmaster_D
Subject: Games People Play - Joe South
Date Posted: 21 August 2010 at 6:58am

I understand that the 45 version is unique and cannot be created from the LP version. Can someone in the know point out the unique aspects of the 45?

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Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 21 August 2010 at 5:41pm

Different performance entirely and on No LP or CD. You must get a Swirl label 45 to get it. Unique mono mix.

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I turn up the good and turn down the bad!

Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 4:09pm

I'd love to find a clean 45. I do have one, and had a heck
of a time cleaning it up to something acceptable.

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Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 5:06pm

KentT wrote:

You must get a Swirl label 45 to get it. Unique mono mix.

Some of the Hollywood-pressed http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/YahShure/JoeSouth-GamesPeoplePlayDJ.jpg - DJ 45s were already appearing on the then-new red/orange target label.

Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 5:16pm

Yah Shure wrote:

Some of the Hollywood-pressed were already appearing on the then-new red/orange target label.

My promo copy is on that label as well...I just figured it was a reservice a couple months after the original release in an attempt to "goose" airplay a bit. ISTR playing the yellowish-green promo during the song's chart run. Still only mono though.

Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 7:39pm

Hykker wrote:

I just figured it was a reservice a couple months after the original release in an attempt to "goose" airplay a bit.

I've always thought so too, Steve. The pictured promo copy came from the KOMA basement, where it had been dutifully filed away in a new heavy duty green sleeve but never played.

Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 10:50pm

I have two promo copies on the yellow/green promo label, one is near mint, the other has seen its share of airtime on a Baltimore station...I'd never seen the target promo before.

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Live in stereo.

Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 3:17pm

I dug up two Promo 45 singles of this at work. One was a Yellow/Greenish label and very noisy and cueburned. Second one was on this original oval logo Target label and played but nice condition. Big thing I was getting at was all of the Starline issues I have seen were in Stereo. I also have a Starline single which is Stereo and a different vocal take. The oval logo Target was definitely a re-service and our copy has a 12-5-1969 date stamped on it. It was found in the WFLI 1070 record archive (wife and twin brother own it and it was a Chattanooga, TN Top 40 50,000 watt powerhouse).

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I turn up the good and turn down the bad!

Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 4:31pm

KentT wrote:

The oval logo Target was definitely a re-service and our copy has a 12-5-1969 date stamped on it.

Which thickens the plot a bit since the target label only briefly used the oval Capitol logo. It was replaced with the round logo sometime in the summer of '69.

Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 11:16am

That old Yellowish Green promo was well worn and apparently the old Program Director asked for extra copies if I am betting and got one. And the date stamped would have been the day it arrived. WFLI didn't cart it's music then.

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I turn up the good and turn down the bad!