Whitney Houston Where Do Broken Hearts Go
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Topic: Whitney Houston Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Subject: Whitney Houston Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Date Posted: 12 August 2020 at 6:50pm
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The promo CD single is Arista ASCD-9674, copyright 1987, just one track, designated as "Single Version", printed time 4:37, actual time 4:36.
This promo CD single currently sells for roughly two billion dollars. The good news is that it's the same version as on the full length Whitney Houston CD, Arista's Whitney (1987). Compared to the promo CD single, the Whitney CD has its absolute polarity inverted (which is insignificant), but uses the same analog transfer and sounds nearly identical to the promo CD single. Same length to the end of the fade, and all that. The 1987 Whitney CD currently sells for roughly one dollar. (So you could buy two billion copies of Whitney for the price of the CD single. Just sayin'.) ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |
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Posted By: thecdguy
Date Posted: 13 August 2020 at 7:09am
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I'm curious as to why they labelled it as "Single Version" if there's nothing different about it compared to the album version. I
don't think it could be an oversight, because someone somewhere obviously thought enough to specifically label it that way. Maybe they just assumed the album version was longer? Maybe they were told the version on the promo was slightly remixed? I'm sure we'll most likely never know. The promo is currently going for around $77 on Discogs. ------------- Dan In Philly |
Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 13 August 2020 at 8:33am
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"Absolute Polarity" ?
OK, I'm gonna go look that one up. Along with a "Sinusoidal fade" ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 13 August 2020 at 8:46am
Not that expensive, the national debt is only a few trillion... ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
crapfromthepast wrote:Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 13 August 2020 at 9:45am
Polarity is analogous to how your speakers are hooked up, or which way is up when you look at a waveform on your screen. Flipping the polarity is analogous to swapping the leads to a speaker, or inverting the waveform. If the polarity of one channel (left or right) is reversed, it's like swapping the leads to just one speaker, and it sounds terrible. When this happens, your speakers are "out of phase". If the polarity of both channels (left AND right) are reversed, you won't even notice. That's like inverting both the left and right channels. The waveforms look upside down on your screen, but they're in phase with each other, and sound fine together. This is what I mean by absolute polarity - both left and right channels are inverted. Sinusoidal just describes a shape of the fade. I don't really use that term anymore, so don't worry much about it. ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |