The official single version of "Heart of Glass" (3:22 in length) omits the "pain in the a**" verse entirely. Leaving in that verse but editing the word sounds like something TM Century would do. Now that music libraries have been corporatized, a lot of their bad edits will be heard forever more.
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Radio stations that edit songs either more conservative or more lenient?
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Not true. TM Century got official radio edits from record labels.
I still stand by my thought that one of the best radio edits ever was Bloodhound Gang's "Fire Water Burn"
The donkey HEE HAW is just... perfection.
One edit that always made me chuckle was in Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". It makes me chuckle because there is NO NEED to edit it.
The official lyrics are "I'll lay your ship bare", but the label sent out a radio edit because so many people though she was saying $#!t instead of "ship." So they edited out a perfectly fine word.
The official lyrics are "I'll lay your ship bare", but the label sent out a radio edit because so many people though she was saying $#!t instead of "ship." So they edited out a perfectly fine word.
Maybe going forward when the service was established. But for their back catalog of '60s/'70s/'80s hits, many of their single/radio edits were custom-made and often incorrect:
Anyone else heard of "The A List"?
I couldn't tell if this has been discussed before (it's really hard to search on "A List"...) Around...
aaronk said:
I was told in an email that TM Century supplied 63 Big WAYS. That's an oldies station outside Charlotte NC that doesn't play anything after the 60s.
I was told that in response to a question about why thee different stations played three different versions of the same song by the same artist.
There is a confustion about "radio edits" and the 45 rpm disk release. Often those were not the same. A radio edit frequently was only for radio stations; the purpose was generally to make the song shorter or to remover or change lyrics which, at the time, were considered inappropriate for radio anywhere in the US.
For many years, beginning in 1994, I programmed the TM Century / Radio Express Spanish hitdisk. I had instructions against any "home edit". If there was no official radio edit, the full or offensive version was included with a symbol indicating a lyric issue. Stations, then, could decide to play the song as-is or to do their own edit or just not to play it.
On a sort of different subject, when the songs were first popular soft rock EZ-104 in Charlotte NC played slightly different versions of songs which didn't have a loud guitar. "Self Control" by Laura Branigan didn't start with a guitar. "Miss Me Blind" by Culture Club and "Running with the Night" were missing all or part of a guitar solo. I think I've heard a version of "Hold on to the Nights" by Richard Marx that was missing a guitar solo.
I've mentioned "Goodbye to Love" by The Carpenters elsewhere. Of course it's not uncommon for a song to not get played all the way to the end for whatever reason. If you want that song to be shorter it's just a guitar solo at the end which isn't necessary and as I recall most stations didn't play the whole thing at the end. I've never heard the song other than on adult standards radio so that would make sense.
And I've heard three different versions of "Somewhere" by Barbra Streisand. I think. At one time there was no instrumental before she started singing. Then most stations played the instrumental before the lyrics. America's Best Music, for whatever reason, was the first place I ever heard what is best described as sound effects for a Halloween haunted house that really don't need to be there. They too should just start with the instrumental part that actually sounds musical, even though it's too "new age" for my taste.
I've mentioned "Goodbye to Love" by The Carpenters elsewhere. Of course it's not uncommon for a song to not get played all the way to the end for whatever reason. If you want that song to be shorter it's just a guitar solo at the end which isn't necessary and as I recall most stations didn't play the whole thing at the end. I've never heard the song other than on adult standards radio so that would make sense.
And I've heard three different versions of "Somewhere" by Barbra Streisand. I think. At one time there was no instrumental before she started singing. Then most stations played the instrumental before the lyrics. America's Best Music, for whatever reason, was the first place I ever heard what is best described as sound effects for a Halloween haunted house that really don't need to be there. They too should just start with the instrumental part that actually sounds musical, even though it's too "new age" for my taste.
That wasn't a radio edit. There were two commercial pressings of the 45 of "Self Control", one with the guitar on the intro and the other without it. Tweaks like this were not uncommon. The first U.S. commercial 45 of Naked Eyes' "Always Something There to Remind Me" had a "thunder and chimes" intro (which was the UK version). It stiffed, and the record company reissued it with with a new synth drums intro, which became a hit.
That edit of "Miss Me Blind" was mentioned on the Top 40 Music on Compact Disc forum but its origin is unknown. "Running with the Night" had a "Special Reservice for New Edit" promo 45 issued with an edited guitar solo and "atomic bomb" sound effects added near the end of the song. "Hold On to the Nights" had an "AC Edit" promo 45 issued which presumably edits out the guitar solo.
The original 45 of "Goodbye to Love" faded out a few seconds earlier than copies of it on CD. And Richard Carpenter has remixed many of the Carpenters songs with new overdubs and re-recordings of his instrumentation. These got released on various Greatest Hits and compilation CDs and are now heard more than the original versions which are getting hard to find.
I don't know about "Somewhere", but there are three versions of "The Way We Were": the soundtrack version, the single version, and the album version. Apparently Barbra re-recorded the album version because she didn't like the vocal take used on the 45. The original 45 version has never been re-released in digital form.
Exactly. I remember when there was a single-edited version sent to radio stations. There was the unedited album version. All released by EMI (Blondie's record label at the time)
Steve Miller's Jet Airliner was the same: Edited single released by the record company had "funky kicks going down in the city". The album version had the original "funky sh*t going down in the city".
There was also an edited version of the Spinners' "One of a Kind Love Affair" that got rid of part of the fade that some listeners heard as "you just got to f*** her, yeah." I think it's been proven that what Phillippe Wynne sang was actually "you just got to hug her, yeah," but the edit remains on some classic hits stations that still play '70s soul.
I heard it yesterday on Good Time Oldies but I never heard whatever this is.
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