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Worst single edit songs

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retromike75

I'm gonna have fun with this one..I think of one the worst single edit oldies song is "Evil Woman" By Electric Light Orchestra..The 3:25 version sounds like they recorded it from a warped 45RPM of that song..It sounds awful...That version is also feature on Time Life Music's Sounds Of The Seventies: 1976...I mean come on, at least put the original 4:20 version in there. Can you topped that..lol








Mike B<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by retromike75 on 02/23/06 07:14 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> I'm gonna have fun with this one..I think of one the worst
> single edit oldies song is "Evil Woman" By Electric Light
> Orchestra..The 3:25 version sounds like they recorded it
> from a warped 45RPM of that song..It sounds awful...That
> version is also feature on Time Life Music's Sounds Of The
> Seventies: 1976...I mean come on, at least put the original
> 4:20 version in there. Can you topped that..lol
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> Mike B

How about Roll Over Beethoven by --- you guessed it --- ELO
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single edit songs

the 45 edits of the big early Chicago hits SUCKED. Great music chopped to heck.


> How about Roll Over Beethoven by --- you guessed it --- ELO
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Re: single edit songs

> the 45 edits of the big early Chicago hits SUCKED. Great
> music chopped to heck.
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> > How about Roll Over Beethoven by --- you guessed it ---
> ELO
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"While You See A Chance" by Steve Winwood has a terrible radio edit. Just as he's hitting a high note, it cuts out a mostly instrumental break and returns to him hitting another high (but different) note on his way to the synthisizer solo before the last verse. Imagine singing the letter "a" in a high pitch and then immediately transitioning to singing the letter "e." (In both cases the letters are pronounced "long" as opposed to "short.)" They don't sound the same. A pretty good song butchered.
 
Re: single edit songs

The worst studio edit was the 1950's "The Ten Commandments of Love" by the Moonglows. On what I believe was the original release, the 10th commandment verse is missing, there is a sound like "nich" (like the Monty Python "knights who say nich") in a bad edit and then the chorus is sung. It was cleaned up and later re-released, and the newer version was put out on cd's so you rarely hear the original anymore. In Philadelphia it used to be played often by Harvey Holiday, Jerry Blavat, and the old WPGR, but you only hear the cd version now.
 
> I'm gonna have fun with this one..I think of one the worst
> single edit oldies song is "Evil Woman" By Electric Light
> Orchestra..The 3:25 version sounds like they recorded it
> from a warped 45RPM of that song..It sounds awful...That
> version is also feature on Time Life Music's Sounds Of The
> Seventies: 1976...I mean come on, at least put the original
> 4:20 version in there. Can you topped that..lol
>

I always preferred the single version of that one...the album version sounds like it upcuts at the beginning.

One really sloppy edit that always jumps out at me is "Devil With A Blue Dress On". Don't think I've ever heard a long version of it, but there's one very abrupt edit in it.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is also sloppily edited. The album version is needlessly long, but they could have done a smoother job on the single version.

"Lyin' Eyes" is another one....not so much from a sloppy edit standpoint, but more that the flow of the song is disrupted.
 
> I'm gonna have fun with this one..I think of one the worst
> single edit oldies song is "Evil Woman" By Electric Light
> Orchestra..The 3:25 version sounds like they recorded it
> from a warped 45RPM of that song..It sounds awful...That
> version is also feature on Time Life Music's Sounds Of The
> Seventies: 1976...I mean come on, at least put the original
> 4:20 version in there. Can you topped that..lol
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>
> Mike B
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I'm not a huge fan of the single version of Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday. The Pieces, Aquarius, Capercorn & Jones LTD album version is better. The single version is like the same song re recorded. You can tell its the single version when you listen to the the "out" "out to mow his lawn" Micky says "out" quicker. There are also a few musical differences. <P ID="signature">______________

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Re: single edit songs

> The worst studio edit was the 1950's "The Ten Commandments
> of Love" by the Moonglows. On what I believe was the
> original release, the 10th commandment verse is missing,
> there is a sound like "nich" (like the Monty Python "knights
> who say nich") in a bad edit and then the chorus is sung.
> It was cleaned up and later re-released, and the newer
> version was put out on cd's so you rarely hear the original
> anymore. In Philadelphia it used to be played often by
> Harvey Holiday, Jerry Blavat, and the old WPGR, but you only
> hear the cd version now.
>
Yeh I remember that one... Have the long version on an old Murray The K collection LP.

Also the edited versions of these two song were the pits:
Knights In White Satin-Moody Blues
and
November Rain-Guns N Roses
 
Just listened to my copy of the song on an album by Varese Sarabande called
"Sunshine Days Volume 4" (This album has got some interesting songs it, BTW). Is the song susposed to sound that bad? By the vocals, it sounds like it was taken off a record. Anyway, the clocked time of my version is about 3:09.

> I'm not a huge fan of the single version of Monkees -
> Pleasant Valley Sunday. The Pieces, Aquarius, Capercorn &
> Jones LTD album version is better. The single version is
> like the same song re recorded. You can tell its the single
> version when you listen to the the "out" "out to mow his
> lawn" Micky says "out" quicker. There are also a few musical
> differences.
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> One really sloppy edit that always jumps out at me is "Devil
> With A Blue Dress On". Don't think I've ever heard a long
> version of it, but there's one very abrupt edit in it.


I have never understood the purpose of that edit. Saves maybe 10 seconds or so? In the uncut version, right before the sudden jump into "Wearing her pearls..." it goes through the "Fe fe fi fi..." part. There are also additional backing vocals during the "false ending" section near the end.


> "Won't Get Fooled Again" is also sloppily edited. The album
> version is needlessly long, but they could have done a
> smoother job on the single version.


I always thought it sounded like they cut the master tape into sections, threw the pieces into the air and spliced them back together at random.


> "Lyin' Eyes" is another one....not so much from a sloppy edit standpoint, but > more that the flow of the song is disrupted.


I have heard what must be a single edit of Bob Seger's "Night Moves" that totally omits the "Woke last night to the sound of thunder" verse. Probably the best verse in the song. :-/ <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by SgtPepper9876 on 02/24/06 06:42 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> I'm gonna have fun with this one..I think of one the worst
> single edit oldies song is "Evil Woman" By Electric Light
> Orchestra..The 3:25 version sounds like they recorded it
> from a warped 45RPM of that song..It sounds awful...That
> version is also feature on Time Life Music's Sounds Of The
> Seventies: 1976...I mean come on, at least put the original
> 4:20 version in there. Can you topped that..lol


I don't know about topping that one, but I really don't like the edit of "Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Substituting a very lackluster and short guitar "solo" for the jazz break.... blecch!
 
Re: single edit songs

>
> Also the edited versions of these two song were the pits:
> Knights In White Satin-Moody Blues
> and
> November Rain-Guns N Roses

Here are a couple edits from the '70s that don't make sense:

"Cat's In The Cradle" by Harry Chapin....only four notes were edited out. That saves what? 3 or 4 seconds? Why bother?

"One" by Three Dog Night. I heard a version that only eliminates the line "Now I spend my time just making rhymes of yesterday". No reason to edit anything here either.

And, lest we forget, the edited version of "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas. Makes the song sound kinda hurried. Same with Billy Joel's "My Life".

I can kinda understand epic stuff like "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" getting trimmed, but fifteen-minute songs are the rare exception.

And on a sidebar, isn't it interesting how no one has touched "Stairway To Heaven"? I have yet to hear a short version of that song. I guess fans have some pull after all.
 
The edit of Surfer Joe by The Surfaris changes the meaning of the song.

In the edit, Joe was on maneuvers and got cold...Poor Joe. But on the unedited version, Joe was AWOL and was sent to do KP...Poor Joe.

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I understand. The record companies wanted more sales of LP's.

> I have never understood the purpose of that edit. Saves
> maybe 10 seconds or so? In the uncut version, right before
> the sudden jump into "Wearing her pearls..." it goes through
> the "Fe fe fi fi..." part. There are also additional
> backing vocals during the "false ending" section near the
> end.
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Re: single edit songs

I thought of Make Me Smile and 25 Or Six To Six also. Are they edits? They are so different from the LP. Do they have parts that are not in the LP?

> the 45 edits of the big early Chicago hits SUCKED. Great
> music chopped to heck.
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Re: A Single That Is Better Than The LP Version

Eli's Coming by Three Dog Night. The outro on the LP dies cold. On the single, it fades out with a piano solo.

Get Back-The Beatles This is not an edit. On Let It Be (LP), Get Back was live from the roof of Apple studios. The single was a studio version that is longer. I think Get Back was ended abruptly by the power being cut or something like that. The Beatles were asked to end their little rooftop concert abruptly during Get Back.

> I'm gonna have fun with this one..I think of one the worst
> single edit oldies song is "Evil Woman" By Electric Light
> Orchestra..The 3:25 version sounds like they recorded it
> from a warped 45RPM of that song..It sounds awful...That
> version is also feature on Time Life Music's Sounds Of The
> Seventies: 1976...I mean come on, at least put the original
> 4:20 version in there. Can you topped that..lol
>
>
>
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Re: single edit songs

Stairway To Heaven was not released on a single. Yes, there are promo singles of it and they are probably worth a few bucks, but no regular single release.

Black Dog and Rock And Roll were single releases from Led Zepplin IV.
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> And on a sidebar, isn't it interesting how no one has
> touched "Stairway To Heaven"? I have yet to hear a short
> version of that song. I guess fans have some pull after all.
>
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> I can kinda understand epic stuff like "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
> getting trimmed, but fifteen-minute songs are the rare
> exception.


I seem to remember a long time ago when Dick Bartley was doing a spotlight on long songs (I am thinking during the "Solid Gold Saturday Night" days) and he played a version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" which was definitely a shortened version yet longer than the single edit. I think Dick said it was eight and a half minutes long. Does anyone know of this version or could it have just been a special version created for the show?
 
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> >
> > Also the edited versions of these two song were the pits:
> > Knights In White Satin-Moody Blues
> > and
> > November Rain-Guns N Roses
>
> Here are a couple edits from the '70s that don't make sense:
>
>
> "Cat's In The Cradle" by Harry Chapin....only four notes
> were edited out. That saves what? 3 or 4 seconds? Why
> bother?
>
> "One" by Three Dog Night. I heard a version that only
> eliminates the line "Now I spend my time just making rhymes
> of yesterday". No reason to edit anything here either.
>
> And, lest we forget, the edited version of "Carry On Wayward
> Son" by Kansas. Makes the song sound kinda hurried. Same
> with Billy Joel's "My Life".
>
> I can kinda understand epic stuff like "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
> getting trimmed, but fifteen-minute songs are the rare
> exception.
>
> And on a sidebar, isn't it interesting how no one has
> touched "Stairway To Heaven"? I have yet to hear a short
> version of that song. I guess fans have some pull after all.
>
Surprised no one has mentioned Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. The single version is one of the worst I have heard
 
> The edit of Surfer Joe by The Surfaris changes the meaning
> of the song.
>
> In the edit, Joe was on maneuvers and got cold...Poor Joe.
> But on the unedited version, Joe was AWOL and was sent to do
> KP...Poor Joe.
>
> The full version makes more sense. Who gets cold near Camp
> Pendleton?

Is the album version available anywhere on CD for a reasonable price?
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