Rod Stewart - Downtown Train
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Topic: Rod Stewart - Downtown Train
Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Rod Stewart - Downtown Train
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 12:14pm
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I have seen 45s of "Downtown Train" by Rod Stewart that have a printed run time of (4:30) and say "fade" next to the time on the label. My copy of this song from TM Century actually runs (4:30). Currently, there is not a notation next to the song in the database.
Do the 45s actually run (4:30) or is this a misprint on the label? |
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 12:39pm
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Hey, Aaron!
The "Downtown Train" cassette single actually does run 4:30 and is just an early fade of the album length. I could be wrong but I don't think the song was ever released on a vinyl 45 format. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 12:48pm
| Todd, thanks for the info. Yes, there are vinyl 45s of the song. Several are for sale on ebay right now. |
Posted By: cmmmbase
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 12:53pm
| there was a stock 45 issued with a Picture Sleeve... |
Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 1:20pm
| I did purchase a white sleeve 7" single back when the single was released, the B side was "The Killing of Georgie" as I can recall. |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 2:50pm
| Yep, commercial 45 has a picture sleeve and "The Killing Of Georgie (Parts I & II)" on the flip on Warner Bros. 22685. In fact, all of his 1990s commercial singles output is also on vinyl. |
Posted By: cmmmbase
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 5:52pm
| actually, no. 1999's Faith Of The Heart wasn't on vinyl. it was a CD single (possibly a cassette single as well) |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 10:26pm
| Yep, you guys are right about "Downtown Train" having been issued on vinyl 45. I didn't see the "(v)" designation in Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 book so I assumed there must not have been a vinyl single release. Evidently, all I needed to do was spend about 30 seconds doing an eBay search to see otherwise! |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 23 June 2006 at 8:09am
Actually, "Broken Arrow" wasn't originally put out on a 45 during its chart run, but was released on the format several years later on an "oldie series" single. Remember those? |
Paul Haney wrote:Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 23 June 2006 at 9:02am
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Nothing to do with the subject at hand, but welcome to this board, Ian! (I've known Ian for a while, as we're participants in another pop-culture BBS.) ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 23 June 2006 at 9:19am
Thanks for the welcome Doug - glad to be aboard! |
Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 30 May 2019 at 4:22pm
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Thought I'd throw this in, the 45 version of "Downtown
Train" is as Todd stated an early fade of the "Storyteller" album version. There is a different mix of the song on the "The Best Of Rod Stewart" compilation, also released in 1989 pretty much everywhere except in the US. There are several differences, the most obvious one being the intro on the "Best Of" version has no piano, just the oboe. https://www.discogs.com/Rod-Stewart-The-Best-Of-Rod- Stewart/release/969155 |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 28 May 2022 at 2:54pm
| Thanks to someone posting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x3XAbSqJi4 - the 45 on YouTube , I can confirm the fade is a smooth/"studio" fade out from 4:18 to 4:30.8 (past the end of the loud piano note), assuming you trimmed the leading silence from the Storyteller album version. The album version doesn't finish until 4:39.4. |