music trivia
Oct. 20th, 2008 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleI don't post many of these obscure little things any more, since interest seems to be minimal, but this one is one of the odd holdouts in my pursuit of a more complete music collection.
I made another discovery today... this record has been a hard one to get in perfect condition, and I still haven't gotten there... but, for a long time, all the evidence I was able to locate suggested that the album and single version of this song were different, and that would be why it's been impossible to find the single arrangement/mix on CD or digital.
I bought two 45 rpm vinyl singles of this recently, and voila.. they are surprisingly different (see below)...
These two are different mixes, and the latter one is the mix released to CD!... So now it seems rather than there being an LP vs a 45 version, it's just two separate versions, and only one is available on CD (as far as I've been able to find all these years). :/
This has made me a bit sad about it, because I've bought several vinyl versions over the years, and unsettlingly, the assembly line on this particular record has never delivered a pristine print for my money. This was a problem in vinyl days, where some records/or/companies would have excellent pressings, and others were haphazard, or consistently bad. For instance, Rolling Stones records almost always were flawed right out of the cart. Another example, Elektra LPs were great, but the 45s were usually awful. MCA LPs tended to have a lot of surface hiss. Some divisions of Columbia records were pristine, but others were a crapshoot... like their subsidiary, Epic Records.
Note the differences in the above labels...
A. this one gives an arrangement credit
B. these top two lines are different identifying numbers than the one below.
C. there is less information here, with the publishing company and performance rights missing.
I have (at least) two other reissue 45s of this. They are the cleanest copies I have, still not perfect even when brand new... but they do have the same number as in item B., and they are the arrangement I think is superior (Johnny's arrangement). The reissue (not pictured) oddly enough does not show Johnny's credit, but instead has a date indicated there (May 1972), and elsewhere it says the song is from an LP, but I've got the LP too, and it's not the same mix! ;P
The 'good' mix has more appealing percussion and guitars, whereas the 'lesser' version emphasizes some other flourish lines that overly dominate the piece, and neglects some percussion entirely.
In any case, this has been one of the most difficult modern records to pursue, in order to come up with a perfect version. I guess the search will go on, but at least I have a 'fair' vinyl version. Ah hope you found this interesting ^v^
I made another discovery today... this record has been a hard one to get in perfect condition, and I still haven't gotten there... but, for a long time, all the evidence I was able to locate suggested that the album and single version of this song were different, and that would be why it's been impossible to find the single arrangement/mix on CD or digital.
I bought two 45 rpm vinyl singles of this recently, and voila.. they are surprisingly different (see below)...
These two are different mixes, and the latter one is the mix released to CD!... So now it seems rather than there being an LP vs a 45 version, it's just two separate versions, and only one is available on CD (as far as I've been able to find all these years). :/
This has made me a bit sad about it, because I've bought several vinyl versions over the years, and unsettlingly, the assembly line on this particular record has never delivered a pristine print for my money. This was a problem in vinyl days, where some records/or/companies would have excellent pressings, and others were haphazard, or consistently bad. For instance, Rolling Stones records almost always were flawed right out of the cart. Another example, Elektra LPs were great, but the 45s were usually awful. MCA LPs tended to have a lot of surface hiss. Some divisions of Columbia records were pristine, but others were a crapshoot... like their subsidiary, Epic Records.
Note the differences in the above labels...
A. this one gives an arrangement credit
B. these top two lines are different identifying numbers than the one below.
C. there is less information here, with the publishing company and performance rights missing.
I have (at least) two other reissue 45s of this. They are the cleanest copies I have, still not perfect even when brand new... but they do have the same number as in item B., and they are the arrangement I think is superior (Johnny's arrangement). The reissue (not pictured) oddly enough does not show Johnny's credit, but instead has a date indicated there (May 1972), and elsewhere it says the song is from an LP, but I've got the LP too, and it's not the same mix! ;P
The 'good' mix has more appealing percussion and guitars, whereas the 'lesser' version emphasizes some other flourish lines that overly dominate the piece, and neglects some percussion entirely.
In any case, this has been one of the most difficult modern records to pursue, in order to come up with a perfect version. I guess the search will go on, but at least I have a 'fair' vinyl version. Ah hope you found this interesting ^v^
