45 Versions not available on CD

I think that you can do it yourself by going to the search screen and in the line "on CD," select no and then hit search. That will give you a list of all the songs not on cd (or not on a domestic cd)

Satchdr, you make an excellent point here. But Pat has never included commercial CD single info in his database. It would probably open up a "whole new can of worms" for him, with much new work and many new headaches, I'm sure. And Pat seems PLENTY busy enough already; he normally has to update his already huge database twice a day. But maybe he would agree to make an exception, in an extremely rare case like this, where the CD single was the ONLY U.S. commercial CD configuration that contained the "hit" version. And Satchdr, just a quick thought on your suggestion for Fetta. I don't think your idea would reveal songs that ARE on database CDs, let's say, in their "LP Version", but not in their "45 Version". I think Fetta was looking for a way to exclude these "On a U.S. CD in an LP Version? Yes, but on a U.S. CD in their 45 version? No". I don't believe that Pat has had his programmer build the sort of "specific version search feature" that Fetta's asking for here, but Pat would certainly know more about his system than either of us do.

jimct and aaronk both make good points about the search function issue and that, at least now, you'd have to go through all of them manually.

I didn't go through all of them that resulted from that search, but, interestingly enough, when I spot checked about 25 of the entries, none of them had any designation that indicated either "45 version" or "LP version." When I have a chance, I'll go back (because I'm probably as crazy as aaronk) and see if there are any that have either designation.

And jimct, I like your suggestion about the "special rule" for U.S. CD singles if they are the only domestic CD source for a hit. I'm not trying to presume on Pat's time, because he's plenty busy keeping the database up, but there are probably relatively few top 40 hits that fit the "Candle In The Wind 1997" category.

jimct wrote: Satchdr, you make an excellent point here. But Pat has never included commercial CD single info in his database. It would probably open up a "whole new can of worms" for him, with much new work and many new headaches, I'm sure. And Pat seems PLENTY busy enough already; he normally has to update his already huge database twice a day. But maybe he would agree to make an exception, in an extremely rare case like this, where the CD single was the ONLY U.S. commercial CD configuration that contained the "hit" version.

Believe it or not, Jim, I've spotted one case in the database where Pat actually has implemented the exception you suggest. If you look up the hit "Voices That Care" by Voices That Care, you'll notice the maxi-CD single appearance is listed along with the comment: (available only on this compact disc maxi-single)! So at least there is precedence for this.

That's a good suggestion, EdisonLite.