Elton John - Song for Guy (radio edit)
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Topic: Elton John - Song for Guy (radio edit)
Posted By: dacs2000
Subject: Elton John - Song for Guy (radio edit)
Date Posted: 08 August 2020 at 4:35pm
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Hi, Just wondering please if there has been an
official CD release with the original single edit of Elton John's "Song for guy". They seems to be a lot of mismatched information between discogs and my CD collection. On the 1982 "Love Songs", it notes the length being 5:18, yet on my CD copy it is the full sleepy 6:37. As in relation to the 1990 Very Best of Elton John, Discogs notes 5:05, yet my CD copy has 6:40. There is a 5:02 version on his 1995 1996 edition of love songs which would have sufficed, but unfortunately its been put through the dog cutter, the waveform is already badly damaged from over compression, as this was the start of the loudness war. So now I'm surmising that the single edit of this song was not released during the better days of CD, pre 1993? If not, I'll have to cut it myself, but though my editing skills are good, I'm really trying to keep this option as an absolute extremely last resort as I prefer to have official releases in my collection. |
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 08 August 2020 at 4:50pm
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Fixed, since hyperlink doesn't seem to be working.
The single edit was on this 1989 import promo CD sampler: https://www.discogs.com/Elton-John-The-World/release/4199110 The above sampler also contains the UK Edit of "Nikita," which was the US 45 version. The single edit of "Song For Guy" was also on this 1994 US promo CD sampler: https://www.discogs.com/Elton-John-The-Songs-Of-Elton-John-B ernie-Taupin-1974-1993/release/5062248 |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 08 August 2020 at 8:41pm
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Brian, you need to put the tags with the correct HTML for website links. Then it should work fine!
https://www.discogs.com/Elton-John-The-World/release/4199110 - https://www.discogs.com/Elton-John-The-World/release/4199110 https://www.discogs.com/Elton-John-The-Songs-Of-Elton-John-B ernie-Taupin-1974-1993/release/5062248 - https://www.discogs.com/Elton-John-The-Songs-Of-Elton-John-B ernie-Taupin-1974-1993/release/5062248 ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: dacs2000
Date Posted: 09 August 2020 at 1:13am
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Thanx guys, will check them out, apparently my friend
has the UK edition of the very best of from 1990, which actually has the official australian seven inch version of song for guy at 5:02, so waiting from him for sending me a ripped copy later tonight, failing that, I'll go for the 1989 sampler off discogs. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 09 August 2020 at 5:13am
I clicked the "globe" symbol and pasted in the links, the same as I always do, and it turned out wonky for me. I tried it three times in two different browsers. |
PopArchivist wrote:Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 09 August 2020 at 8:29am
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dacs2000 what is your email and i will send you the 5:04
45 edit.. ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: dacs2000
Date Posted: 10 August 2020 at 5:26pm
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Hey edtop40, that is much appreciated, only just
checked back today Thanx, I already purchased the track from the UK store called ilikemusic. I ended buying the single track off a 1991 virgin compilation entitled "Moods" https://www.discogs.com/Various-Moods/release/3424052 The single edit was also available on the love collection, another UK compilation put out by Trax Media, which I think is nothing related to the Australian label by the same name which was a subsidory of PolyGram. https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Love-Collection- Volume-Six/release/1043059 |