Question On Three 1970s Paul McCartney Single Edits

[Captainfirst]

Does anyone here know where the edit points are on "Jet", "Silly Love Songs", and
"With A Little Luck"? I'm trying to recreate the single edits from my old cassette copy
of "Wings Greatest", which of course, has the longer LP versions. As always, many thanks
for any assistance rendered.

 

[firepoint525]

The radio edit of "With a Little Luck" can be had on the All the Best and (I believe) WingSpan collections. No need to reinvent the wheel there.

Interesting that "With a Little Luck" was a hit during American Top 40's waning days as a three-hour program, yet they usually played the full-length version of it, rather than using the radio edit, as most of their affiliates were already doing anyway.

 

[firepoint525]

Video version of radio edit of "With a Little Luck"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OnQEfgdBZo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne5bKbW4rxg&feature=related

 

[Captainfirst]

Cool. I have the "Wingspan" CD already, so I'm set there. And I kind of remember from when it was current that some stations did play the full-length version of "With A Little Luck". Thanks for the information.

 

[firepoint525]

For "Silly Love Songs," they edited out the (primarily) a-capella "layered" vocalizing of Paul, Linda, and Denny Laine near the end of the song. I don't know where the exact edit point was, but I would say that it was somewhere in the sax solo, since the sax solo only appeared once in the edit version.

I have heard an edit of "Jet," but it has been so long since I've heard it that I don't know where the edit points are. I just remember that it had a really short intro, and that I wasn't able to get my 8-track started recording it before the vocal started when I heard it playing on the radio! ;D Now there's a memory for you! ;D

 

[Oldbones]

For "Silly Love Songs," they edited out the (primarily) a-capella "layered" vocalizing of Paul, Linda, and Denny Laine near the end of the song. I don't know where the exact edit point was, but I would say that it was somewhere in the sax solo, since the sax solo only appeared once in the edit version.

The "dragging the chain" part of the intro was also edited off.

I have heard an edit of "Jet," but it has been so long since I've heard it that I don't know where the edit points are. I just remember that it had a really short intro, and that I wasn't able to get my 8-track started recording it before the vocal started when I heard it playing on the radio!

You're not missing much. I have a promo copy of this somewhere and IIRC it's a real hack job. Besides the shortened intro and a fade ending the middle is all chopped up too, one of the edits is so bad you'd swear the record skipped!

Don't forget there was a radio edit of "Band On The Run" too.

 

[firepoint525]

The "dragging the chain" part of the intro was also edited off.

Damn, that was one of my favorite parts of that one! :'(

You're not missing much. I have a promo copy of this somewhere and IIRC it's a real hack job. Besides the shortened intro and a fade ending the middle is all chopped up too, one of the edits is so bad you'd swear the record skipped!
Don't forget there was a radio edit of "Band On The Run" too.

"Jet" wasn't that long to begin with (4:00?), so chopping it up wouldn't make much sense.
I was not aware of a "Band on the Run" edit, but given its "natural" length, it wouldn't surprise me that someone tried to shorten it.