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Kingston Trio-"Greenback Dollar"

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Topic: Kingston Trio-"Greenback Dollar"

Posted By: jimct
Subject: Kingston Trio-"Greenback Dollar"
Date Posted: 22 April 2012 at 7:58am

My commercial 45, confirmed as Capitol 4898, has a listed time of (2:49),
but an actual time of (2:42). The 45 is different from the LP version in that
each of the 3-4 times the word "damn" appeared, it was removed from the
lyric line, "and I don't give a (damn) about a greenback dollar" for the single.
Curiously, just about all current database CD appearances for the
"uncensored LP version" run (2:49), so it appears that Capitol used the LP
timing as the listed 45 length. That was incorrect, because obviously, editing
out the word "damn" several times had shaved some seconds off of the 45's
length.

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Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 22 April 2012 at 8:35am

Jim, the timing difference stems from the 45 fading out prior to the final nine-strum cold ending on the LP version.

The "damn"s weren't simply edited out; they were replaced with a guitar strum of the same length as the word they were replacing. Hence, "I don't give a (strum) about..."

Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 22 April 2012 at 9:49am

Thanks, John. As Johnny Carson often said, "I did not know that!"

Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 10 May 2012 at 7:06pm

The best edit/censorship job ever on a Top 40 hit.

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