"Precious and Few" - Climax
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Topic: "Precious and Few" - Climax
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Precious and Few" - Climax
Date Posted: 22 February 2012 at 4:22pm
| Commercial 45 copies of Climax's "Precious and Few" are in mono and have an actual run time of 2:44. (Thanks once again to Jim for supplying the timing info. The printed label time is 2:43.) I only pass this along because the song's database CD appearances run from 2:41-2:46. |
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Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 22 February 2012 at 5:23pm
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Also, there seems to be a slight mix difference in the mono
single mix. ------------- |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 24 February 2012 at 12:33am
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Hits Man:
Can you please elaborate a little more on the specific difference you're hearing between the stereo mix and the 2:44 mono 45 mix? |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 24 February 2012 at 8:31am
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The string and horns are lower in volume. It's small
things like that that make a difference in the overall sound and feel of a song. ------------- |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 24 February 2012 at 9:03pm
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And there is an early reissue 45 of this track on Flashback. It uses the old mono Carousel stamper. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 25 February 2012 at 3:05pm
I had a later Flashback 45 of it and it was in stereo. ------------- |
KentT wrote:Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 25 February 2012 at 8:59pm
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The Stereo Flashback was likely a bit later pressing than my mono one. Might have used an original Promo Stereo side stamper. Thanks for letting us know about this version. It might be the last one before the masters changed hands. Dominion Music now owns the master to this classic. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: Roscoe
Date Posted: 25 February 2012 at 9:57pm
Do you happen to know the matrix number of the mono Flashback 45? I was browsing gemm.com and there are couple of different Flashback 45s listed (assuming that one is the mono version and the other is stereo). |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 26 February 2012 at 12:28am
My promo copy is mono/mono. I would be interested to know if a mono/stereo promo exists. ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: PaulEschen
Date Posted: 26 February 2012 at 7:23am
| My Flashback mono 45 (FLB 69) has an inner ring number of Bell-9987-1-1. |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 04 March 2012 at 7:52pm
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And so does my own copy, pre-Arista. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 01 February 2013 at 6:47pm
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in my billboard book of top 40 hits, it says that the
climax song 'precious and few' was first released on carousel 30055, which i have but also states it was released as rocky road 30055.....i have never seen the rocky road 45 release.....can anyone confirm that they've seen or have a copy of the rocky road 30055 vinyl 45?..... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 02 February 2013 at 6:32am
Ed, we've since taken that trivia note out of the books. I'd also be curious if anyone has ever seen a copy on Rocky Road. FWIW, Tim Neely does list it in his price guides. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 02 February 2013 at 9:48am
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At one time, I owned a Rock Road test pressing for "Life
And Breath", the follow-up to "Precious And Few." I'd imagine there are pressings for "Precious And Few" on Rocky Road. I just did a Google image search and only the Carousel label came up. |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 07 February 2013 at 7:00pm
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According to the entry on the Both Sides now site,
"Precious and Few" was reissued as Rocky Road 30055" when it became a hit single. First pressings in late 1971 were on the Carousel label. Apparently, In late 1971 or early 1972, the label was issued a cease and desist notice for the Carousel name, so owner Marc Gordon abruptly switched the name to Rocky Road. The company folded in 1975, just two years after Al Wilson's "Show And Tell" was a hit on the label. The reason the reissue 45 wound up on Arista is because Rocky Road was distributed by Bell, and that company morphed into Arista when Clive Davis took the company, as we know. ------------- |