Radio Versions That Annoy

[JosephM]

I bought the Heart album Dreamboat Annie, because I liked to single that played on the radio. Imagine my suprise when I listened to the album. It's a great album, but the 'single' is not there.

 

[Dave Andrews]

Slow Ride-Foghat. The single version ends with "Slow Ride, Easy" as it fades out. There was also a version where the fadeout occurs as the vocalist-I think it was Dave Peverett-belts out "You Know The Rhythm Is Right" just prior to the fast guitar riff at the end. The latter hasn't been heard in decades.

I've heard the complete version on the AOR stations here in Phoenix. More AORs should play the full version -- it's one of the rockinest tunes ever.

 

[Captainfirst]

Well, let me be in the distinct minority here. I prefer and spin edits/single mixes over full versions/album mixes, with key exceptions like "Layla" and "My Life" and a few others. Most AM stations did things that way in the 1970s and that's a style of radio I do my damnedest to recreate.

But for those of you who like it the other way, I can respect your choice.

 

[Kurt Toy]

This has been mentioned once before-J. Geils Band's "Give It To Me". The single version repeats the lyrics "Got To Get It Up [Get It Up] as the tune fades out, in lieu of the long instrumental riff like in the album version.

 

[Kelly Watts]

One song that deserves and edit or early fade is Steam's Kiss Him Goodbye!

 

[johnsummers]

The edited version of "Crimson and Clover" is missing the extra two minutes.
Long version is better and complete.


@oldies76: The long version of C&C was not the first version. That psychadelic guitar solo was added after Tommy James heard Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf. If you listen carefully to some versions, the middle part comes in a hair 'flat' (because it was added later) and has to be fixed before it can be aired, although, many stations don't take the time to do so.

 

[oldies76]

The edited version of "Crimson and Clover" is missing the extra two minutes.
Long version is better and complete.

@oldies76: The long version of C&C was not the first version. That psychadelic guitar solo was added after Tommy James heard Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf. If you listen carefully to some versions, the middle part comes in a hair 'flat' (because it was added later) and has to be fixed before it can be aired, although, many stations don't take the time to do so.

Interesting!! I'll have to listen more carefully to C & C at that point.

 

[oldies76]

Also the full length or 12" version of KC's "That's the Way I Like It" (5 minutes long) is more appealing than the 3 minute early fade.

Has anyone heard the 8 1/2 version of "Last Dance"..from the "Thank God it's Friday" Soundtrack?
Usually we hear the much edited 3-4 minute cut.

 

[CTListener]

Also the full length or 12" version of KC's "That's the Way I Like It" (5 minutes long) is more appealing than the 3 minute early fade.

Has anyone heard the 8 1/2 version of "Last Dance"..from the "Thank God it's Friday" Soundtrack?
Usually we hear the much edited 3-4 minute cut.

Never heard them on CHR back in the day, would be absolutely mortified to hear them on a classic hits station today. Those long versions are strictly for disco diehards. I think most classic hits listeners prefer disco in smaller doses.

 

[CTListener]

WDRC-FM Hartford plays a chopped version of Bob Seger's "Night Moves" that I don't recall ever hearing when the song was current. It omits the whole slow segment in which Seger sings about "humming a song from 1962." Absolutely ruins it for me.

 

[flashback]

to me disco is best in no doses.

 

[firepoint525]

Also the full length or 12" version of KC's "That's the Way I Like It" (5 minutes long) is more appealing than the 3 minute early fade.

There is also an approximately five minute version of "Get Down Tonight" that also rarely gets played. The instrumental break right before the ad-libbed fadeout is longer. Yet both of these appear in edited form on the KC & the Sunshine Band greatest hits CD. (They appear in their five minute versions on the greatest hits LP.)

Has anyone heard the 8 1/2 version of "Last Dance"..from the "Thank God it's Friday" Soundtrack?
Usually we hear the much edited 3-4 minute cut.

Not familiar with that one, but you get the approximately eight-minute version of "Disco Inferno" on Saturday Night Fever.

WDRC-FM Hartford plays a chopped version of Bob Seger's "Night Moves" that I don't recall ever hearing when the song was current. It omits the whole slow segment in which Seger sings about "humming a song from 1962." Absolutely ruins it for me.

That's the 45 edit. Some classic hits stations still play that one. It fades at the end.

 

[johnsummers]

Here at K*LUV in Dallas, our PD insists on short versions of everything. There are, however exceptions and "Night Moves" is one. Sheesh!

 

[CTListener]

Here at K*LUV in Dallas, our PD insists on short versions of everything. There are, however exceptions and "Night Moves" is one. Sheesh!

And DRC-FM plays long versions of "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Shout," "I've Been Lonely Too Long" and "25 or 6 to 4," but not "Night Moves" or "Crimson and Clover." I suppose only radio/music geeks notice such things, but still ....

 

[oldies76]

but not "Night Moves" or "Crimson and Clover." I suppose only radio/music geeks notice such things, but still ....

To this day, I have never heard any station play the long version of "Crimson & Clover". I got it off one of those Dick Clark compilation LP's.

The longer version of "Magic Carpet Ride" is excellent too! There is also a slightly different version of MCR that plays on AM oldies stations, where the line plays: "Oh, Why Don't You Come With Me Little Girl, On a Magic Carpet Ride" The "Oh" is not on the regular edit & LP versions"
The instruments sound a bit off too, on this alternate take.

 

[firepoint525]

I remember hearing Seger say in a radio interview that his first write of "Night Moves" was similar to the three-minute version, but he did not feel like it was "finished," so he went back and wrote what you hear (on the album version) now. I remember him saying that it took him something like eight months to write that one! Well worth it, because it became his first top ten hit!

 

[hornet61]

Also the full length or 12" version of KC's "That's the Way I Like It" (5 minutes long) is more appealing than the 3 minute early fade.

There is also an approximately five minute version of "Get Down Tonight" that also rarely gets played. The instrumental break right before the ad-libbed fadeout is longer. Yet both of these appear in edited form on the KC & the Sunshine Band greatest hits CD. (They appear in their five minute versions on the greatest hits LP.)

Has anyone heard the 8 1/2 version of "Last Dance"..from the "Thank God it's Friday" Soundtrack?
Usually we hear the much edited 3-4 minute cut.

Not familiar with that one, but you get the approximately eight-minute version of "Disco Inferno" on Saturday Night Fever.

WDRC-FM Hartford plays a chopped version of Bob Seger's "Night Moves" that I don't recall ever hearing when the song was current. It omits the whole slow segment in which Seger sings about "humming a song from 1962." Absolutely ruins it for me.

That's the 45 edit. Some classic hits stations still play that one. It fades at the end.

I have the 8:09 and the 4:55 version if want a copy, shoot me a private message with your e-mil..the old e-mail I have for you is expired...Unfortunately I lost my TGIF soundtrack..I got the long version from a "Disco Divas" CD featuring mostly 12"/Extended versions. Cutesy movie for It's day, featured the Late Paul Jabbara.

 

[Kurt Toy]

Yesterday a station outside of Pittsburgh played a version of Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love" that ended prematurely, fading out before Paul Rodgers did his last "Can't Get Enough, Enough Of Your Love" prior to the big finish. Hate when that happens.

 

[willdav713]

What 60s and 70s songs do you often hear on the radio as the short versions instead of the original longer versions?

"Beginnings" by Chicago. The 3 minute version is garbage...only the album version should ever be played. How can all those incredibly sounding horns in the 3-6 minute portion be ignored?? It's an incredible song, when played at full length.

Actually it was 4:21, and if you lived in San Antonio in 1990 you would not be listening to 99.5 KISS (they played that version) so did KONO. KZEP played the LP version off their Greatest Hits back then, not the 7:57 version off their Chicago Transit Authority LP. KZEP would be the only one to play that, along with the full version of Make Me Smile

 

[willdav713]

"I'm Not In Love" by 10CC is also an annoying radio cut. After the second "ooo it's been a long time" the abruptbly cut to the ending.

Back in August of 2010, KONO 101 in San Antonio played the complete version I am not in love by 10cc.