See Me, Feel Me, The Who question

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   My 45 of See Me Feel Me is mixed differently than any CD release. The difference on my 45 is that the drum track is louder. The reason it's louder is it sounds like that either on purpose, or accidentally, someone screwed with the stereo separation to move the drums more toward the center. (Which of course moves the vocal off the center a bit). This does not sound like a multi track remix, either a screw up when mastered at a plant somewhere or on purpose. Let me describe this 45. I see the 45 listed in most publications as 32729, yet this particular 45 is 732729. It is not a typical Decca stock copy, it has a gold label, custom created. This is the same gold 45 custom Tommy label that was used on the 4-7" promotional issue box to radio which contained 8 sides from Tommy on 45 rpm records (I have that too). This is NOT part of that set as the number series is completely different and the liner notes in the box do not mention See Me Feel Me as part of the 8 sides. The B Side of 732729 is Overture From Tommy. This 45 does not say promotional copy on it. Label states a time of 3:22. 

Are other copies of this song on a standard Decca label as 32729? If so, does anybody know what this release is and why it's different? 

The deadwax is stamped 7 123092  2   

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BillCahill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote BillCahill Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: See Me, Feel Me, The Who question Posted: 13 May 2007 at 7:28am
	My 45 of See Me Feel Me is mixed differently than any CD release. The difference on my 45 is that the drum track is louder. The reason it's louder is it sounds like that either on purpose, or accidentally, someone screwed with the stereo separation to move the drums more toward the center. (Which of course moves the vocal off the center a bit). This does not sound like a multi track remix, either a screw up when mastered at a plant somewhere or on purpose. Let me describe this 45. I see the 45 listed in most publications as 32729, yet this particular 45 is 732729. It is not a typical Decca stock copy, it has a gold label, custom created. This is the same gold 45 custom Tommy label that was used on the 4-7" promotional issue box to radio which contained 8 sides from Tommy on 45 rpm records (I have that too). This is NOT part of that set as the number series is completely different and the liner notes in the box do not mention See Me Feel Me as part of the 8 sides. The B Side of 732729 is Overture From Tommy. This 45 does not say promotional copy on it. Label states a time of 3:22. Are other copies of this song on a standard Decca label as 32729? If so, does anybody know what this release is and why it's different? The deadwax is stamped 7 123092 2

jimct Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 07 April 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote jimct Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 May 2007 at 8:32am
	Bill, from the extensive label/catalog research I do for my friends Tim and Gary on the ARSA old music survey website, my experience is that I will, from time to time, come across some Decca 45s that add a "7" prefix to their long-time numbering system. I always took this to imply "7-inch release #32729." You're right, it does read as "732729." But for Decca label discographers, disregarding the "7", when it sometimes appeared, exactly maintained the sequential 45 numbering integrity the label had used, back from the 50s, all the way until the label's last big pop hit, Dobie Gray's "Drift Away", before the Decca label's merger into MCA records in January 1973. As for the custom label for "See Me, Feel Me", all 1970 commercially-issued 45s I have ever seen for it have that gold "custom" label. To me, I just always thought it was the label's way of continuing to market/emphasize the fact that the song was from their "Tommy" LP. Another example of a label doing this would be Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", which eschewed using the standard MCA label in the summer of 1975, and instead used a custom label backing which STRONGLY emphasized the LP that it came from, "Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy." "Someone..." happened to be the only single released from that album, as its flip side, "House Of Cards", was a non-LP track.

TomDiehl1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 January 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote TomDiehl1 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 May 2007 at 10:36am
	On Decca releases, the 7 before the rest of the number meant that it was a stereo 45, or at least that's how it had been with every Decca 45 i've found with the 7 before the rest of the number...sometimes the label said stereo, sometimes it didn't mention it at all.
	Live in stereo.

BillCahill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote BillCahill Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:22am
	Then I'd assume the mix difference on my 45 was a mistake made at a record plant or in the dub that went to the plant, because as far as I know, it's supposed to be wide stereo. This one is not.