When Smokey Sings - ABC

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   I just picked up a copy of the Razor & Tie CD "Into The Night".

The database states the version on the CD is the 45 version of "When 

Smokey Sings" however, the version includes an additional verse that I 

don't think is on the 45 so I would assume that it is the LP version.  It 

also does not include the count off. 

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Fetta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 26 April 2005 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Fetta Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: When Smokey Sings - ABC Posted: 08 January 2013 at 8:16pm
	I just picked up a copy of the Razor & Tie CD "Into The Night". The database states the version on the CD is the 45 version of "When Smokey Sings" however, the version includes an additional verse that I don't think is on the 45 so I would assume that it is the LP version. It also does not include the count off.

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 January 2013 at 8:46pm
	Am curious to know more about Into The Night, since I'm a big fan of the early-to-mid-'90s Razor & Tie compilations. I have exactly two compilations that include the true 45 version (sax solo), including the opening count-off: EMI UK's 2-CD Now 10 (1987) EMI UK's 2-CD Now 1987 (1993; uses same analog transfer as W. German CD single) I have five compilations that include the true LP version (sung bridge instead of sax solo), including the opening count-off: Priority's Eighties Greatest Rock Hits Vol. 8 Dance Party (1993, very bright EQ) JCI's Only Rock 'N Roll 1985-1989 (1994, uses same analog transfer as Absolutely) Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties Vol. 19 The Late '80s (1996, differently EQ'd digital clone of Only Rock 'N Roll 1985-1989) Time-Life's 2-CD Modern Rock Vol. 4 1986-1987 (1999, digitally exactly 1.45 dB louder than Absolutely) Sony Germany's 2-CD Pop And Wave Vol. 8 (1999, uses same analog transfer as the Priority disc and also is too bright) I have three compilations that include the LP version (sung bridge instead of sax solo) but cut off the opening count-off: PolyGram Europe's Hits On CD Vol. 8 (1987) Swaitek's promo 50-CD A List Disc 40 (1994, probably no noise reduction) Realm's 3-CD Greatest Hits Of The '80s (2002, too loud and clips severely - avoid) My choice for the 45 version is the W. German CD single. My choice for the LP version is *Absolutely, which is a remarkably good-sounding disc. It sounds better than any CD versions I've heard for the four Lexicon Of Love* tracks, and it's probably pretty inexpensive nowadays. I myself have a UK pressing (I got it before the album was released in the US), and the US version swaps out one of the unnecessary remixes at the end of the disc. I think the mastering is the same, but I've never checked. Edited by crapfromthepast
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Fetta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 26 April 2005 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Fetta Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 January 2013 at 8:53pm
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crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 January 2013 at 9:38pm
	Report: the version on Into The Night (2002) is compressed pretty severely. Just FYI. (Thanks, Fetta!)
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musicmanatl Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 22 June 2011 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote musicmanatl Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 January 2013 at 6:32pm
	I believe the NOW 1987 CD from the Millennium Series in 1999 in the UK also has the single version. It runs 4:23. Is that you show as the proper time?

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 January 2013 at 7:43pm
	That time sounds about right. Both the 45 and the LP versions run about 4:23.
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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: 02 May 2014 at 12:37pm
	Pat currently lists a (7:03) "remixed" CD in his db. I believe this version to be the "Miami Mix" from my stock 12" single (Mercury 888-726-1): Side 1: 1-7" Version (listed time 4:21) 2-Bonus Beats (listed 4:38) 3-Detroit Mix (listed 6:47) Side 2: 1-Miami Mix (listed 7:02) 2-(a different track, "Chicago (Parts I & II)" (listed 6:38)) Edited by jimct