Stealers Wheel - Everyone’s Agreed...
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Topic: Stealers Wheel - Everyone’s Agreed...
Posted By: Ringmaster_D
Subject: Stealers Wheel - Everyone’s Agreed...
Date Posted: 04 April 2013 at 12:23pm
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Although this wasn't a Top 40 hit, peaking at #49 in 1973,
this is one of my favorite songs from the early seventies. The single differs significantly from the LP version, and is far superior in my opinion. To my knowledge the single version has never been released on CD either domestically or as an import. I thought I would reach out to the forum to see if anyone has ever located this on CD, or if anyone has worked some audio magic to clean up a good 45 pressing. Thanks! |
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Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 04 April 2013 at 2:02pm
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Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 04 April 2013 at 2:21pm
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Yah Shure wrote:Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 04 April 2013 at 5:09pm
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Yes, the stereo single version is a great record.
It received airplay in my market (Albany/Schenectady/Troy), and was played on the TM 'Stereo Rock' syndicated format in many markets. Andy |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 05 April 2013 at 7:16am
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Kind of an odd stereo mix on this song. It sounds like
most of the song is in mono, only the handclaps (which are panned all the way to one side) and some drums (panned all the way to the other) are stereo, everything else is centered. Anyone know the history on this song? It almost sounds like what Roulette did with "Draggin' The Line"...only the parts that were added to the orignal recording were mixed in stereo. Could this have been an earlier recording that was "revived" after the success of "Stuck In The Middle...". and juiced up a bit? |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 05 April 2013 at 9:58am
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To Hykker,
May I kindly beg to differ? I think the stereo placement is well-panned. Here is what I hear: Handclaps hard left. Conga hard right. Low level acoustic guitar soft left. High level acoustic guitar soft right. Organ soft right. Lead electric guitar (bridge) hard right. Background "ooh ahh" vox mixed stereo with stereo reverb. Bass, Trap drum kit, Lead & harmony vox, Lead electric (solo) guitar, Piano (all) up the middle. That's a very competent stereo mix that the USA public never got to buy at any time! Andy |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 05 April 2013 at 1:40pm
I think it was the case of a record company not hearing a second single from the debut LP and wanting to put something out that would extend the shelf lives of both the band at radio and the album at retail. That the follow-up single wasn't even on the LP was of secondary importance. "Everyone's Agreed" would've been a dynamite opener to side two, had A&M gone ahead and reconfigured the LP, but would it have worked within the album's context? Did the band have veto power? Who knows? There was also the matter of three-fifths of the band departing in the wake of the debut LP and second single. If there had been pressure from A&M to follow "Stuck" quickly with a radio-friendly soundalike, the "clean slate" opportunity for Rafferty and Egan to re-cut "Agreed" as a duo for Ferguslie Park minus the earlier "Stuck"-soundalike/full-band lineup baggage, may have been too good to pass up. In the process, A&M would have the song to include on the sophomore album, yet with all tracks representing the retooled Stealers Wheel lineup. Is there a possibility that the single version master tape no longer exists? |
Posted By: Bill Cahill
Date Posted: 06 April 2013 at 4:44am
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A&M did a rather lazy Best Of Compilation and even re-released as a single the non hit version of "Everyone's Agreed" as "Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan, which may be the reason the single mix wasn't included on that comp, they were working the other version as a single.
My guess is that the deal was a lease which is now expired. You can only find Stuck in the Middle with You on Pure 70's and the soundtrack to Reservoir Dogs. As far as I can tell they never did a 20th Century collection, but if they got down to Keith Hampshire on that series there has to be a reason that they didn't do Stealers Wheel. Unless I'm wrong, I've just never seen one. If Universal still has the rights, this might be the time for Universal to put something together that includes all the Stealers Wheel Top 40 (or near Top 40) songs as well as the Gerry Rafferty Hits. I believe the merger with EMI gives them both Stealers Wheel and Gerry Rafferty which could be part of their Icon series. If somebody has the time to research it be worth a couple of strings here on new compilations from artists who now have more of their masters merged. But its a bit tough to follow. EMI went to Universal. Universal keeps the Beatles but spins off what they had under "Parlophone" which includes Pink Floyd. So Pink Floyd goes to Warner Brothers, Chrysalis goes to Warner Brothers, but Sanctuary (Pye) goes to BMG but that's not the Sony/BMG. So if anybody has information as to what artists now belong where, that would be a great string, along with new easy compilation with merged catalogs. Anyway on this particular song they probably have it but never got around to issuing it or waited too long and the lease is up. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 06 April 2013 at 2:31pm
I've always been under the impression that both the Keith Hampshire and Valdy 20th Century collections were done expressly for the Canadian market, hence the maple leaf insignias on their respective covers. (Come to think of it, the Hampshire collection doesn't include yet another elusive A&M single-only track: 1974's "Hallelujah Freedom" (A&M 381) which wasn't issued stateside.) As for Stealers Wheel, has anybody checked the 20th Century Scottish editions? ;) |
Posted By: Steve Carras
Date Posted: 22 April 2019 at 3:40pm
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Of course two completely different recordings, it should
be noted, exist, one for the album and one for the single. ------------- You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney. |
Posted By: Bill Cahill
Date Posted: 23 April 2019 at 4:30am
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Looks like Stealers Wheel is still distributed by Universal, Gerry Rafferty is now on Warner as part of the
Parlophone split. Universal seems happy enough just licensing "Stuck in the Middle" on a million compilations. You can buy MP3s of the three Stealers Wheel albums, but from what I've determined as of this writing, neither version of "Everything" is on the Ferguslie Park MP3 album. |
Posted By: C J Brown
Date Posted: 24 April 2019 at 7:35pm
| I see a three CD set on Amazon - Stealer's Wheel & Rafferty stuff. Includes Everyone's Agreed. I suppose not the 45 version? But would like to know for sure if anyone knows. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 24 April 2019 at 8:29pm
CJ, I presume you're referring to the Universal Holland Collected 3-CD set. Sorry to say, it has the same "Everything Will Turn Out Fine" found elsewhere, not the 1973 45. OTOH, it does have the 1974 45 version of "You Put Something Better Inside Of Me" with the drunken horn player (or at least it always sounded like that.) The Intervention Records reissue of the Stealers Wheel album also contains the later 45 version. Seems the original LP version was only on the 1972 LP. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 25 April 2019 at 10:27am
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I haven't followed all of the posts so excuse if I ask
what's already been discussed or ask silly questions. 1) Could the masters for Stuck In The Middle and Everyone's Agreed be lost? 2) Since they were on A&M, where are all of the label's masters stored? 3) Would it be a licensing issue? Would Gerry Rafferty's estate own the license? ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: C J Brown
Date Posted: 26 April 2019 at 7:12pm
| Yah Shure - thanks for the clarification on set titled Collected. Sorry I left that name out of my post. Sounds like there is good and bad on that set. Might go for Collected anyway and hope it is not a brick wall monster. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 27 April 2019 at 9:45am
CJ: No need to apologize; I knew right away which one you'd meant. Just like the good and bad on that set, so goes the sound quality. Some of the Stealers Wheel tracks are among those that sound brickwalled, particularly "Stuck In The Middle" and "You Put Something Better." On the other hand, "Benediction" sounds pretty good. The Rafferty solo tracks generally have more breathing room. It's an interesting assortment, and getting a couple more tracks from Stealers Wheel's Right Or Wrong album in digital quality was worth it for me. |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 29 April 2019 at 11:19pm
John, I can help with these questions since I've now worked over the last few years with these very questions we face as a reissue label. So from 1 - 3: 1) No, I don't think any masters are lost. Universal has all the A&M master tapes, with the exception of Herb Alpert. I'm sure Herb took his own tapes when A&M was sold. 2) I'd assume that the bulk of the original tapes are stored at Iron Mountain. When we've asked for things that hadn't been touched in a long time, that's usually where they go looking. 3) RE: Licensing... that's a difficult question. Two things are possible. One, is that their material is at Universal under "artist consent". That means anything you ask for has to go to whoever reps the artist, OR to the artist themselves - and require special permission to be used, and that includes what version you want to use. We've run into that quite a few times. When you are lucky you get a "yes". Maybe someone already asked for the single of "Everyone's Agreed..." and been turned down. The second and just-as-likely possibility is that whoever has produced the past comps didn't even know to ask for a different version of the song and just took whatever they got by simply asking for the title. They simply don't do any home-work on anything nor does it even cross their mind what a collector might want. There's no way to know right now which of the above is true. MM |
Posted By: garye
Date Posted: 11 December 2019 at 11:21am
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I understand this is an older post.
I recently acquired what I believe are the mono and stereo single mixes of the song. Was able to download. Both are 320k. If anyone is interested in hearing them, please PM me and will send them along. |