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Topic: osmonds one bad apple

Posted By: edtop40
Subject: osmonds one bad apple
Date Posted: 11 August 2012 at 4:02pm

my commercial 45 for the osmonds song "one bad apple"
issued as mgm 14193 states the run time as 2:45 an does
indeed run that length and is slower than all the 2:43
running db entries....you'll need to pitch down the best of
cd version to 86 bpm's to match the pitch of the commercial
45...the commercial 45 is in stereo even though it doesn't
state that explicitly on the label....

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edtop40

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Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 11 August 2012 at 6:51pm

My promo copy of this has OBA on both sides, but has the blue and gold stock label (and no promotional markings). Both sides are stereo.

Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 11 August 2012 at 8:31pm

Seems to me we discussed this once before on the "Osmonds 45s" thread. :) My http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/YahShure/OBADJ.jpg - DJ 45 is on the yellow M-G-M '50s carryover promo label, dashes and all.

Except that, by this time, MGM had fired its special disk jockey, Leo the lion, who used to plug his own 45s in the empty space on the label's left side. :( At least that's the story I heard. There's also a rumor that Steve kidnapped Leo to serve as his BSN avatar. :) I'd done the same some years back over on the XMFan board. Leo needed the gig.

This one's also double-A stereo/stereo.

Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 5:59am

My own DJ 45 single has the Yellow Label with the notation "Special Disc Jockey Record" and is Stereo on both sides.

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I turn up the good and turn down the bad!

Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 9:40am

Yah Shure wrote:

There's also a rumor that Steve kidnapped Leo to serve as his BSN avatar. :)

I think the statute of limitations is up on that one...he seemed to have disappeared from MGM promo copies sometime in mid-1968, right around the time that promos went from being vinyl to styrene (at least east coast ones...dunnow about elsewhere).

Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 10:36am

Hykker wrote:

...right around the time that promos went from being vinyl to styrene (at least east coast ones...dunnow about elsewhere).

The MGM DJs here continued to be vinyl, as was my yellow-label copy of "One Bad Apple." Was your blue and gold DJ 45 styrene?

Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 17 August 2012 at 5:05am

Yah Shure wrote:

The MGM DJs here continued to be vinyl, as was my yellow-label copy of "One Bad Apple." Was your blue and gold DJ 45 styrene?

Yes, my copy of OBA is styrene. Interestingly, all my other MGM singles, promo and stock from '70/71/72 are vinyl.

Did a quick check (this was easy since I file my 45s chronologically) and discovered that all my MGM (and MGM-distributed Kama Sutra) 45s from the last half of 1968 are styrene. Promos and stock.
1969 was a mixed bag...most promos were styrene, all stock copies were vinyl.