SOS Band - Take Your Time (Do It Right)

Ron, to answer your nearly two-year old question, yes. The 12" single has a slightly longer fade compared to the LP version. That's the only difference I hear.

Morning, y'all. I was up and decided to do some digging on this one, since I had never heard the elusive "Part 2" either. I found what would appear to be a true 45 rip on YouTube. It's definitely not fully instrumental, but I'm not well-versed enough with the 12" version to know whether this version could be extracted from it. (The YouTube clip has leading silence of about a minute for some reason.)

FYI, "Part 2" is available on CD here, but buyer beware, these reissues were besieged with complaints of dodgy vinyl rips for bonus tracks when they were first released. Don't know if this is one of the tracks that was complained about or not.

Edited by EternalStatic

By the way, just some info about rights-owners vs. major
label distributors. When a label is no longer with a
national distributor - in this case, TABU and CBS, when
the smaller label is no longer under contract with the
major, they can request ALL of their master recordings
to date. In MOST cases, the major or distributor will
hand over all the LP masters.

They hardly EVER hand over the SINGLE masters and most
rights owners don't think to ASK. If they had
specifically asked for their single masters by matrix
numbers, they would have had ALL the versions for which
they own the rights.

We've seen this at least half a dozen times. The folks
who grant us the license are NOT in possession of the 45
master tapes! So we have approached the original
distributor (Sony, EMI, or Warner...etc) and sure enough
we got a copy of the correct U.S. single.

It is unfortunate that most rights-owners do not think
to do this. And it's unfortunate that a lot of CD
reissue producers do not think to do what we did - go to
the original source for the version you want! They WILL
copy tapes for you even if they no longer own the
rights.

MM     

Dan, the Billboard disc has the same mix as the US promo 45 "Short Version," but it runs about 15 seconds longer on the CD. I'm positive the CD is not a vinyl transfer, though. TM Century most certainly used the Billboard CD as their source, but they often used de-clicking and noise reduction on other CD copies that didn't necessarily need to be cleaned up.

Edited by aaronk

For the sake of completeness, for the 2-CD set Disco Fever (Razor & Tie 22496, 1991), the database should read "LP and 12 inch single version faded from 3:47 to 3:57", rather than "edit of the LP version in an unsuccessful attempt at recreating the 45 version".

This may be the least useful piece of data in this entire thread.