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Worst single edit songs

> 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!

I second that emotion! No, not Smokey's song--but
rather the horrible 45 edit of "Spinning Wheel."
Or to put this edit another way: "that wasn't too
good...ha ha ha ha..."

My chart-topping worst shrink-to-fit candidate is
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Diana Ross.
 
Re: single edit songs

I like a lot of single edits - especally on classic rock tracks that have excessive sololing ("noodling"). The single edit of "In A Gadda Da Vida" turns 16+ minutes of brain numbing excess into a tight under 3 minute garage band single.

One single edit that also did wonders was Nazareth's "Love Hurts" - the LP version had a horrible whiny guitar solo that was mercifully edited out for the 45.

I never appreicated Len Barry's "1-2-3" until I picked up a mint Decca 45 at a thrift store a few years ago. The mono mix is super bright and very compressed like a classic Motown 45, while the stereo version on MCA "Vintage Music" CD sounds tinny.
 
I think it is the CD. That is when I first started to hear the unedited version was when the CD came out. I think Joe Donovan on WHAS was the first place that I heard it.



> Is the album version available anywhere on CD for a
> reasonable price?
>
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Re: Two More Songs That Were Finally Unedited

I can think of two more songs that were unedited on the CD and have never been available prior to CD.

Hang On Sloopy-The McCoys. An extra verse is on the CD

Yeh,Yeh-Georgie Fame The European and Australian version has an instrumental bridge that was not available here. Bob Shannon was the first to play the CD with it on CBS-FM around 1986.

Also there is a much longer version of My Boomerang Won't Come Back by Charlie Drake outside the USA (including Canada). The reason for the alternate version is the line, "Practiced 'till I was black in the face." The word "black" was changed to "blue" for the US market. This version is probably available on a CD compilation 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
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> Mike B
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Re: single edit songs

Yes. There was an intermediate edit of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. It may have appeared on a different Iron Butterfly album.

I am guessing that it may have originally been released for FM stations. They can handle nine minutes, but not a whole album side.

> > 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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Re: single edit songs

Pappa Was A Rolling Stone-Temptations and Get Ready by Rare Earth were both made commercially viable with the edit on the single. The LP version of both are long, drawn out and boring.



> I like a lot of single edits - especally on classic rock
> tracks that have excessive sololing ("noodling"). The single
> edit of "In A Gadda Da Vida" turns 16+ minutes of brain
> numbing excess into a tight under 3 minute garage band
> single.
>
> One single edit that also did wonders was Nazareth's "Love
> Hurts" - the LP version had a horrible whiny guitar solo
> that was mercifully edited out for the 45.
>
> I never appreicated Len Barry's "1-2-3" until I picked up a
> mint Decca 45 at a thrift store a few years ago. The mono
> mix is super bright and very compressed like a classic
> Motown 45, while the stereo version on MCA "Vintage Music"
> CD sounds tinny.
>
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Re: single edit songs

> Yes. There was an intermediate edit of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
> It may have appeared on a different Iron Butterfly album.

I've also heard at least one "intermediate" edit of "Time Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers, that clocks somewhere in between the short single version and the original 13 minute album epic.
 
The worst edit is Let's Get Together By Haley Mills cut down to 1:28 from its original 8:00 album length.

> 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
>
 
Re: Two More Songs That Were Finally Unedited

> I can think of two more songs that were unedited on the CD
> and have never been available prior to CD.

Thankfully with people like Sundazed's Bob Irwin and Rhino's Bill Inglot going through piles of master tapes a lot of unreleased goodies have appeared.

There's a interesting version of Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" that has a short organ break that was released (sadly in mono-only) on EMI-America's "Best of Manfred Mann - The Definitive Collection" CD.

The best unedited take I heard was a first-time stereo remix of "Expressway To Your Heart" by the Soul Surviors. The unedited take lasts about 4 1/2 mins. They had to do a lot of editing to get it around 3 min for the single. Interestingly enough there are two lead vocalists sharing the chorus on the song, you could never tell in mono.
 
> > 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!
>
> I second that emotion! No, not Smokey's song--but
> rather the horrible 45 edit of "Spinning Wheel."
> Or to put this edit another way: "that wasn't too
> good...ha ha ha ha..."

I always hated that song, so the short version was just a minute and a half less to suffer thru.
 
Re: Two More Songs That Were Finally Unedited

> I can think of two more songs that were unedited on the CD
> and have never been available prior to CD.

What about "Tell Me" by the Rolling Stones? Don't think I ever heard the version with the extended bridge until their London albums were remastered for CD (though the extended version was on the vinyl ABKCO reissue too).
 
> The worst edit is Let's Get Together By Haley Mills cut down
> to 1:28 from its original 8:00 album length.
>
> > 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 forgot that one. It IS pretty bad!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike B
> >
>
 
Re: single edit songs

> Pappa Was A Rolling Stone-Temptations and Get Ready by Rare
> Earth were both made commercially viable with the edit on
> the single. The LP version of both are long, drawn out and
> boring.


My parents had the "Get Ready" album and that's how I even became familiar with the song. I later learned it it was edited down for single release. Maybe the full version is an acquired taste, I don't know. I wouldn't pick it to listen to over the single version every time, but I do listen to it on occasion.
 
Re: single edit songs

I have not heard of that, though it may very well be true. I remember in the early days of WMYQ 96.3 Miami, around spring of 1971, they played a version of Time Has Come Today that I never heard before. I assumed that an ambitious production department carted up the song, and then had some fun tweaking it with various phasing and sythasizing. Maybe that was the intermediate version.


>
> I've also heard at least one "intermediate" edit of "Time
> Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers, that clocks
> somewhere in between the short single version and the
> original 13 minute album epic.
>
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Re: single edit songs

I have them both on album and single. The LP versions of those two take mental preparation before listening.


> My parents had the "Get Ready" album and that's how I even
> became familiar with the song. I later learned it it was
> edited down for single release. Maybe the full version is
> an acquired taste, I don't know. I wouldn't pick it to
> listen to over the single version every time, but I do
> listen to it on occasion.
>
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Guns N Roses edited promo single

Does anyone have the radio edit of "Paradise City" from GNR? The length would be somewhere under 4:30 minutes long. I've been looking for this for awhile.

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> The worst edit is Let's Get Together By Haley Mills cut down
> to 1:28 from its original 8:00 album length.
>

That's just sloppy. There's no good reason for them to have missed that final 1:28.


-Dessicated Dick
 
Re: single edit songs

> I've also heard at least one "intermediate" edit of "Time
> Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers, that clocks
> somewhere in between the short single version and the
> original 13 minute album epic.
>

I somehow recall the single version being close to 5 minutes...was there a longer edit than that? It seemed to contain everything except the long passage best defined as noodling into an echo chamber. Was there an edit shorter than 5 min? If so I never heard it. The only "alternate" edit I ever heard was the re-creation of the single on some Rhino compilation...similar to the 45, but not edited exactly the same way.
 
> "Lyin' Eyes" is another one....not so much from a sloppy
> edit standpoint, but more that the flow of the song is
> disrupted.
>

Amen on that. Same goes for the Marshall Tucker Band's "Heard It in a Love Song" and the Rascals' "I've Been Lonely Too Long." The extra verse works wonders for both. Funny thing is that I've heard some oldies stations that play the radio edit of the Rascals tune (WODS Boston and XM's 60s on 6), and some that play the uncut version (WBOQ Gloucester, MA, and WDRC-FM Hartford).
 
> 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..

Been thru all the posts, and nobody's mentioned the Doors' "Light my Fire". The stations only played the short version. It was a treat to finally buy the album and discover what had been edited out.

Also, The Contours' "Do You Love Me" seems to fade out at the end and then pops back in for what seems to be a better place to fade out. I don't know if that was an edit; it just sounded like it was a mistake.
 
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