"Tonight’s the Night..." - Rod Stewart

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   There's an edited version of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" on two database CDs that is also missing the closing female overdubs.  Out of curiosity, was this version ever issued on a promo 45?  I'm too young to remember if it got any airplay on Top 40 radio, but I've heard soft rock stations play it from time to time over the years (they likely spun it directly from the Greatest Hits album).  I actually like the edited version's ending better with just the instrumentation and minus the French female's bombastic cooing.

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Todd Ireland Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 18	Post Options Post Reply Quote Todd Ireland Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: "Tonight’s the Night..." - Rod Stewart Posted: 19 March 2009 at 10:33pm
	There's an edited version of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" on two database CDs that is also missing the closing female overdubs. Out of curiosity, was this version ever issued on a promo 45? I'm too young to remember if it got any airplay on Top 40 radio, but I've heard soft rock stations play it from time to time over the years (they likely spun it directly from the Greatest Hits album). I actually like the edited version's ending better with just the instrumentation and minus the French female's bombastic cooing.

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: 20 March 2009 at 12:38am
	Todd, just responding off the top of my head here, I remember many years ago at my station changing the "source" of that song from his "A Night On The Town" album to his "Greatest Hits" album in our main studio, not thinking that the ending was any big deal while trying to free up a source # for a newly-added song. Within days, one of our lovable-but-always-opinionated air personalities wrote up a "music discrepancy", wondering, "why have we swapped out the definitive, classic Britt Ekland LP version of this song in favor of the vastly inferior, no-Britt 45 version?" Being no big deal to me, I immediately put the LP version back in rotation! (I have a feeling that same jock wouldn't have liked you very much either, Todd! :) ) My memory always was that the 45 faded out before Britt Ekland. I haven't pulled my 45 out tonight to compare, but I'm 90% sure about it. Edited by jimct

Hykker Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 30 October 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hykker Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2009 at 5:17am
	Nope, she's on the 45 too.

Todd Ireland Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 18	Post Options Post Reply Quote Todd Ireland Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2009 at 6:41am
	For what it's worth, I should emphasize that I have no problem whatsoever with sexy female voices on recordings. ;-) This is just one case where I think the song's ending works better without one, but I'm sure my opinion probably represents a minority!

Bill Cahill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 27 June 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bill Cahill Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 March 2009 at 6:53am
	My recollection is that Rod and Britt split and she sued for royalties on Tonight's the Night, so Rod or the label just took her off the Greatest Hits LP version. So she was always there on the promo 45, stock 45, and original LP. It was on Greatest Hits that she was excised. Edited by Bill Cahill

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: 20 March 2009 at 1:06pm
	Thanks for the correct, additional details, Steve and Bill. When I first read Todd's post, I was just about to hit the hay and didn't have the energy left to put the "hard hat" on and troll through/locate the correct 1976 45 box and listen to it at that instant. Thanks also for confirming that Britt wasn't on the Greatest Hits LP version. And now that you mention it, I do remember the ugly split/royalty lawsuit that Rod and Ekland had, which explains it.