Carly Simon - The Stuff That Dreams...
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Topic: Carly Simon - The Stuff That Dreams...
Posted By: eriejwg
Subject: Carly Simon - The Stuff That Dreams...
Date Posted: 24 February 2011 at 11:00am
| Does anyone have a run time of both the commercial and promo 45/CD single for this song? I know it's not in the database, but the version on the Reflections set runs about 30 seconds shorter than any other versions I've seen. |
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Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 04 September 2016 at 5:11am
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+1 I was interested in knowing if the 45 is simply an early fade of the
album version or is edited throuhgout the track. Labels on both promo and commercial vinyl 7" show a 3:58 run time. https://www.discogs.com/Carly-Simon-The-Stuff-That-Dreams-Ar e- Made-Of/release/5897008 https://www.discogs.com/Carly-Simon-The-Stuff-That-Dreams-Ar e- Made-Of/release/3565186 |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 04 September 2016 at 6:21am
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It's an edit. It's towards the end, but I'm not exactly sure where. I'll
check a bit later on. ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 04 September 2016 at 6:43am
Thanks! |
sriv94 wrote:Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 04 September 2016 at 7:33am
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Sriv94, if you could check actual run time that would be great as
well, I wonder if the Reflections version that eriejwg mentions is the true 45 or an edit for that compilation. |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 04 September 2016 at 11:40am
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I don't have the 45, Johann, but the version on Reflections jibes with my memory of what I heard on the radio. The edit strips out (3:18) to
(3:39) of the LP version, then is faded about eight or nine seconds early. And feel free to call me Doug. Only the good people do. :) ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 04 September 2016 at 1:14pm
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Thanks a bunch Dough :) I bought a UK 7", I will report once I give it
a listen! |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 05 September 2016 at 12:41pm
Don't we just love auto-correct? :-D ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: Kiefer2
Date Posted: 27 January 2017 at 8:28pm
| So-is the version on "Reflections" the actual single version (in that the 45's both reflect an inaccurate run time)? (3:58 (45) vs 4:27 (Reflections version). |
Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 03 February 2017 at 10:18pm
Haha, sorry Doug! |
Posted By: Smokin' TomGary
Date Posted: 08 February 2017 at 4:33pm
| Promo 45 AS1-9619 (deadwax AS 1 9619 SA-1 on both sides) has a listed time of 3:58 and actual time of 4:22. It is Stereo both sides. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 09 February 2017 at 4:16pm
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Interesting. Wonder if the 3:58 edit is reflective of
the stock 45 or is a 'neither." |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 09 February 2017 at 4:23pm
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Or, whatever the edit length was on Reflections
was. I don't have the file in my library anymore. |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 09 February 2017 at 7:33pm
Based on Smokin' Tom's post, I'm not so sure a (3:58) edit exists. I'm almost positive the (4:22) version is the 45 version. ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 15 August 2017 at 7:23am
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The UK 7" commercial single features the 4:22 edit (label
shows 4:20). It is misleading as there is no mention of what version is included on the label and it reads "taken from the album" instead of "original version from the album". It seems 3:58 is just a misprinted time on the US single and the 4:22 running is the true 45 version. |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 28 November 2022 at 9:03am
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4:22 is the true 45 version. Ive noticed many label times for Carly Simon are inaccurate to the actual running times. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 11 March 2023 at 5:54pm
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An off-topic comment to an off-topic thread :)
My exposure to "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of" was constantly seeing the music video on VH-1 - it was an excerpt from her "Live at Martha's Vineyard" concert, which was released commercially at the same time. And when I bought the "Coming Around Again" CD especially for this song, I was surprised at how slow the studio-version of "Stuff That Dreams ..." was, compared to the live version I was so used to. In fact, it was so much slower that I didn't even use it for my collection - I used the live version, probably taking it from my VHS tape. Though I really wished the studio version was, to put it simply, as fast as the live version. Well, decades later, we now have things like Izotope RX, so I took the studio version from CD and increased the BPM to be the BPM of the live version, without changing the pitch at all (which would have made Carly sound like a chipmunk). So I now finally have what I was hoping I would find on that CD I bought back around '87! :) |