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Todd Ireland 
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 Topic: "The Letter" - Joe CockerPosted: 01 May 2006 at 10:07pm |
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I know the 45 version of Joe Cocker's "The Letter" is now available on CD, but I'm just wondering... Is the 45 an edit of the LP version, or is there something present on the 45 version that cannot be extracted from the LP?
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Posted: 01 May 2006 at 10:30pm |
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It's a different (earlier) take, live-in-studio.
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Todd Ireland
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Posted: 01 May 2006 at 10:37pm |
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Thanks for the info, Andrew. Guess I'll have to purchase Cocker's updated Mad Dogs & Englishmen deluxe double-CD set after all.
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Todd Ireland
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Posted: 11 February 2009 at 6:19pm |
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FYI... Commercial and promo 45 copies of "The Letter" list the artist as "Joe Cocker with Leon Russell & The Shelter People" on the record label.
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Posted: 11 February 2009 at 8:25pm |
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That's correct, Todd. As Andy indicated earlier, Joe, Leon & The Shelter People were ALL in the studio at the exact same time, cranking out the hit, "live-in-the-studio" version of the song.
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Todd Ireland
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Posted: 12 February 2009 at 9:31am |
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The artist credits are also significant because my 7th Edition copy of Joel Whitburn's Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits does correctly state the aforementioned artist listing for "The Letter" under Joe Cocker, but this song does not show up for Leon Russell as a Top 10 hit and a third Top 40 entry under his own artist listing. I don't know if this has been corrected in a later edition, so perhaps this should be brought to Paul Haney's attention if it hasn't.
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Paul Haney
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Posted: 12 February 2009 at 10:37am |
For the Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 book, there is a trivia note at the end of Leon Russell's bio to also see Joe Cocker's "The Letter". This note should also be put in the Top 40 book. Just to let everyone here know that a new Top Pop Singles 1955-2008 book is in the works and should be out sometime this summer. Also, a new 9th edition of the Top 40 book should be out sometime in 2010. |
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Posted: 12 February 2009 at 2:13pm |
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Hi Paul,
Not to hijack this thread, but I feel compelled to respond to your note that there will be another update to Top Pop Singles! I purchase every Top Pop Singles (and most other books, too). Unfortunately I find I don't access the 2006 book as much as I do the 2002 book for the following important reason: The Airplay/Sales breakdown is eliminated where the charts were available from 1984 on. This is important to me because it helps me determine better how it became a hit and if the song reached radio listeners. Please see if this feature can be restored to the forthcoming book! Thank you! Andy |
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Posted: 15 February 2009 at 7:45am |
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On a similar note, I've been less happy with the Top 40 Hits books since they continued into the '90s. I know it would take a lot more work, but to just say a song was a "top 40 hit" based on Hot 100 placement to me is doing the genre a great disservice.
In the 90s, and even to today, the Hot 100 more of a multi-format chart. To me, data should be included from Billboard's sub-charts, like Top 40 Mainstream. It was done for the '50s, when multiple Pop charts existed. Why not for the '90s? |
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Posted: 16 February 2009 at 6:17pm |
Paul, has Record Research considered releasing these as e-books for electronic book readers such as Kindle and MS Reader? Books sold in these formats are DRM'd. |
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