Captain & Tennille - "The Way I Want To..
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Topic: Captain & Tennille - "The Way I Want To..
Posted By: Scanner
Subject: Captain & Tennille - "The Way I Want To..
Date Posted: 12 November 2020 at 12:32pm
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Many remember this as their follow-up to "Love Will Keep
Us Together." However, this was first released in late 1973 on the Joyce label and received some minor airplay in later 1974. Does anyone know whether the Joyce version differs from the hit version eventually released by A&M? |
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Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 12 November 2020 at 1:22pm
| IIRC, it's the exact same recording. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 12 November 2020 at 8:41pm
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It must be the same recording, because when you listen
to the CD of their "Love Will Keep Us Together" album, the difference in sound quality between those two single sides ("Way I Want to Touch You" and its flip "Disney Girls") is quite obvious through headphones. Those two tracks have more background hiss and a softer sound than the rest of the album. So almost certainly the same recording, but is it the same mix? I have no idea. I have either a Butterscotch Castle or a Joyce label pressing (it was on both), but I've never listened to it. Somebody put a crackly Joyce 45 on YouTube, and it's certainly the same recording, but unfortunately he set it to mono (you can tell, because the record crackles are mono, too). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqgSjx8z7BM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqgSjx8z7BM |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 13 November 2020 at 4:35am
| Based on that link that Brian posted, I hear no differences at all. |
Posted By: Scanner
Date Posted: 13 November 2020 at 1:28pm
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Sounds the same to me as well. But, I must admit I do
not have the same ear for differences as so many people on this board do! :-) Thanks for posting the link. It's always interesting when a song like this gets a second chance and succeeds after faltering the first time. R&R did report some AC stations playing this in 1974, but not enough for the song to chart. Obviously, the success of "Love Will Keep Us Together" and the promotional muscle of a bigger label finally got this song heard. It doesn't always work - Atlantic re-released Bette Midler's "Under The Boardwalk" after "Wind Beneath My Wings" flew up (pun intended!) the charts. But, "...Boardwalk" did not chart when it was first released before "Wind..." or after. |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 13 November 2020 at 3:08pm
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It's my favorite C&T song and I've heard it at least hundreds (thousands?) of times.
Again, sounds exactly the same to me! |
Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 18 November 2020 at 7:54pm
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Wasn't it Toni's sister(s) that did a lot of the backing vocals for them?
Out of all the songs they did this one seems the most interesting to me as well. I really, REALLY like the wavering "Way" in the background as the song comes to a close. And for some reason after hearing it on that scratchy 45, I am drawn to the conclusion that it could have worked just as well for Carly Simon. I do agree strongly with Paul that they sound the same to me too. ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
Posted By: FrankG
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 9:07pm
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AdvprosD, yes, Toni's sisters Melissa, Jane, and Louisa
are credited as background singers on five of the songs on their first LP. The LP/CD liner notes also credit Morgan Cavett as the producer of "The Way I Want to Touch You" and "Disney Girls", which suggests that these are the original single versions recorded for the Joyce 45. "Love Will Keep Us Together" was the first LP I ever owned. :). It has a special place in my heart. |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 9:19pm
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Didn't the Spanish version have the backgrounds by the Tennille sisters in English? ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 9:48pm
Yes. I also think it's possible the instrumental bed was re-recorded, but it's hard to tell. It's definitely mixed very differently. |
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