"How Much I Feel" - Ambrosia

In a recent e-mail conversation with my good friend Abagon, he informed me "How Much I Feel" has an actual run time of 4:40 on his Japanese pressing of Ambrosia's Life Beyond L.A. vinyl LP. This is :04 shorter in length than the U.S. commercial 45.    

That said, does anyone have a U.S. vinyl LP pressing of Life Beyond L.A. who can verify the run time of "How Much I Feel"?

Thanks very much, Yah Shure! Looks like the difference in length between the 45 and LP isn't significant after all.

I see on ebay that the promotional 45 had a mono and stereo side but no
edit of a 4:45 song.

I tried to edit this once, because I had to fit a certain
number of songs in limited time, but I gave up. Nothing
worked well, maybe they felt the same way when they were
putting it on a single.

Go for it, Gregg! I've also said on multiple occasions that no one person
can know everything. Just because you think I implied something, that
doesn't mean I actually did. Statements made are misinterpreted by others
all the time. (Although I honestly can't remember the last time a new 80's
promo 45 version for a db song has been un-earthed on here. It's gotta
be 3-4 years now, at the very least.)      

I never made any such statement about the 70's, however. You
paraphrased incorrectly. If you recall, I just discovered/reported on that
1977 "Disco Lucy" DJ 45 short v myself last month, remember? My
Ambrosia statement applied to that particular song only. I do very much
look forward to your alleged new 80's find, however.    

Yeah, our station did get 99% + of Top 40 promo product back in the day.
And I was there for all of the 1980s. But personnel changes at the labels
were frequent. Often, local/regional reps would mail promo 45
copies/items out themselves, with a note included, for that "personal
touch." If a song came out during such a transition, the new rep wouldn't
always know what songs the old rep had hand-mailed out, and to which
stations. And sometimes, as with all shipments, a few mass-mailing items
did get lost in the mail. It wasn't until the label rep called us later, about
that rare song it turned out we didn't have in-house yet, that we'd both
realize this, and they'd next-day-air us more copies. And if this happened
for a song that either they weren't "working", or wasn't on our radar, we
may never have known of it/ever gotten a re-send for it at all.

The late 80s "promo 45 to promo CD single" transitional era did hold
some surprises, as well. We added "Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates
Jazz very early on, in 1988. We got in a promo 45, and played it on-air off
of a 2-CD Virgin promo sampler, which also featured the 45 version.
None of us at the station ever knew that an early promo CD single had
been made for it. But, sure enough, Discogs has one listed now, and I
hope to find a copy of it someday, even though it appears to include the
same version found on the 45 and the sampler, which I still have. If that
had included multiple radio-length versions on it, however, that could've
been a new find for us here.

Edited by jimct