ELO - Can’t Get It Out Of My Head

LP version (4:21)

I only have the LP version on three discs, but I have a clear favorite: Legacy/Epic's 2-CD Strange Magic The Best Of (1995).

The two others are Jet's ELO's Greatest Hits (1986), and Telstar UK's 2-CD Very Best Of (1989). Neither sound good for this track.

45 version (3:06)

Here are instructions for creating the 45 edit using Strange Magic The Best Of as the source:

Segment 1
Extends from 0:00.0 to 0:48.2 of the LP version and the 45 edit
Ends on a downbeat at the beginning of the word "can't"

Remove 80 beats from 0:48.2 to 1:46.7 of the LP version

Segment 2
44 beats long
Begins on a downbeat at the beginning of the word "can't"
Extends from 0:48.2 to 1:20.0 of the 45 edit
Extends from 1:46.7 to 2:18.5 of the LP version
Ends on a downbeat

Remove 12 beats from 2:18.5 to 2:27.0 of the LP version

Segment 3
8 beats long
Begins on a downbeat
Extends from 1:20.0 to 1:25.7 of the 45 edit
Extends from 2:27.0 to 2:32.6 of the LP version
Ends on a downbeat

Remove 12 beats from 2:32.6 to 2:41.0 of the LP version

Segment 4
Begins on a downbeat
Extends from 1:25.7 to 3:06.5 (end) of the 45 edit
Extends from 2:41.0 to 4:21.9 (end) of the LP version

Your mixdown will run 3:06.5, with edits at 0:48.2, 1:20.0, and 1:25.7.

The version on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 16 1975 Take Two (1991) differs from about 1:04 to about 1:32, and uses the wrong portions of the LP version. I didn't spend any time reverse-engineering this incorrect version. The same analog transfer is used on Starland/Warner Special Products' 2-CD Lost In Love (1994).