rod stewart tonight i’m yours don’t hurt

my commercial 45 for the rod stewart song "tonight i'm yours (don't hurt me)" issued as warner 49886 states the run time on the label as 3:54 and does indeed run that length and is an edit of the full length 4:10 cd/lp version...this 45 run time s/b added to the db....thanks paul for the edit you did for me years ago....

Ok, so this is my first post of describing what I think to be the edit points between the 45 and the LP version. The veterans who are pros at this, please be kind.....LOL.

I didn't have a 45 on hand so I based my comparison off of the video that I grabbed off of Youtube.

There is an extra chorus between approx the 2:57 and 3:09 mark that is not included in the video that I removed and that seems to do it. However, after the cut, this version runs approx 3:57 which is :03 longer than what edtop40 noted above. It is hard to tell if the video just faded a bit early or if the 45 does the same.

I did also notice that the video version was much faster than the version that I worked with which came from "Rod Stewart Encore: Best of Vol. 2" Not sure if the 45 is faster or if the transfer onto youtube or the source that it came from was much faster.

I would be more than happy to share the edit with anyone but again, my first go around at this so I won't swear by my edit.

-Jeff

Edited by Fetta

Just to clarify the edit points on the 45:

Using Storyteller (1989) as the source (LP
version, runs 4:10), remove the 32 beats from 2:55.8 (is
between beats, after the snare, on the syllable for the
word "don't") to 3:07.9. Keep everything else.

Your mixdown will run 3:58, with a single edit at 2:55.8.

[opinion]... but you'll never actually want to hear this
song. I know a program director of a small-market FM
station that I can pick up in the car. They play plenty
of '80s-era pop stuff, which suits me well. At one
point, I begged him to please pull all the Rod Stewart
from the playlist, because nothing else from that time
frame makes me lunge for the preset buttons faster than
'80s-era Rod Stewart. To any fellow '80s-era
programmers, I would advise: More .38 Special, Less Rod
Stewart.[/opinion]

crapfromthepast wrote: [opinion]I begged him to please pull all the Rod Stewart from the playlist, because nothing else from that time frame makes me lunge for the preset buttons faster than '80s-era Rod Stewart. To any fellow '80s-era programmers, I would advise: More .38 Special, Less Rod Stewart.[/opinion]

aaronk wrote: [fact]I enjoy seeing an occasional opinion posted on the board. It reminds me that we are actually human and not music robots.[/fact]

I dunno...I don't mind his 80s hits, sure beats hearing
"Maggie May" again. 38 Special is ok too, though a bit
overplayed on classic rock.

crapfromthepast wrote: I didn't mind "Young Turks" - I kinda liked Rod's dabbling with the drum machine/new wave sound. But "Tonight I'm Yours" was basically the same arrangement, minus a well-written song. I'd lump it into the same category as Survivor's "American Heartbeat".

Yes, "Young Turks" was probably the best of Rod's 80s
stuff, at least until "Downtown Train" at the very end of
1989 (and not counting his guest vocal on Jeff Beck's
"People Get Ready"). He was bashed critically for most
of the decade, not undeservedly with cheesy singles like
"Infatuation". However, I do admit to having a soft spot
for one of his universally reviled hits (even Stewart
himself has admitted it to be garbage): "Love Touch". I
can't dispute the criticisms leveled at this song, but I
thought it had a pretty good hook.