rhythm heritage "theme from swat"

I received two "...S.W.A.T." promo 45s at my college station, with the reservicing stemming from the record's slow start out of the gate, looking like anything but a hit as it made a hardly-impressive 90-90-88-84-81 move over the first five weeks of its Hot 100 run. By that point, more than one station not yet on the record probably assumed it was a stiff and may have tossed their initially-serviced promo copies.

Both of my ABC promo 45s are Columbia Santa Maria vinyl pressings, with identical labels. Both are also 2:47 mono/2:47 stereo. The deadwax matrix numbers do differ between the two, however:

Copy 1: "16845-M (a "7" in a circle) > (caret symbol) "
        "16845-S (a "2" in a circle) >"


Copy 2: "16845-M (an "8" in a circle) >"
        "16845-S (a "1" in a circle) >"

We did not receive any longer-length promo 45.

MMathews wrote: Both of my CD sources for the short 45 version have an issue with the very first opening hi-hat. Sounds like it's partially clipped (compared the LP version). Does the actual 45 start the same way?

Not that I can hear, Mark. But I'll send you the intros of each of my four promo 45 sides as described above, so that you can stain the slides and study them under the microscope. ;)    

Edited by Yah Shure