"Stir It Up" - Johnny Nash

Hi there,

I believe that the Time Life CD "Sounds Of The Seventies 1973: Take Two" contains the hit 45. Sounds like it to me. Pat, Please take a listen again and see what you think.

What's the difference?

davidclark wrote: the 1973 (hit) 45 is a different mix and contains a sound (not sure what, but it starts at :15) and extra background vocals during the chorus not present in the original 45/LP version

   I'll see if I still have my copy on the yellow Epic label.

LATER: OK, I do have it, but I have to go into a closet and pull out hundreds of 45s in a big box. I'm not prepared to do that tonight. All I can tell you is that it must be the original pressing because it is the same as the one found on the Rock Artifacts CD volume 2 (?).

Edited by Grant

My Epic 10949 hit version commercial 45 has a listed time of (3:09), but an actual time of (3:01), exactly as its lone 45v database appearance (the Time/Life 1973: Take Two V/A CD) does.

Jrjr, the 1973 re-release of "Stir It Up" came out just as Epic was switching over from the yellow to the orange label, and I happen to have 2 1973 commercial copies of it: one copy features the yellow label, and the other copy features the orange label. The same 1973 situation exists for both Clint Holmes' "Playground In My Mind", and the Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein." Pressing plants are often instructed to "use up" the old label design paper before starting with the new, which sometimes caused overlap. I probably have over 100 hit commercial 45s, on two different label designs, so it's actually not all that incredibly uncommon.