Worst single edit songs

[RadioMan203]

Ventura Highway...no difference in time but I alsways liked the 45 version with just Dan Peek's solo vocal, rather than the LP version with it phased or doubled or whatever.

Also, the 45 has acoustic guitars while the LP version has electric, which is why I use a restored 45 for my personal library.

 

[BenTehelenbach]

The "Green-Eyed Lady" edit was good/bad. The LP version has excessive intro and outro, but more entertaining mid-solos.

I also remember WHB playing an even shorter edit, with a different part of the soloage. KUDL played that version as well...check out the full-hour aircheck at http://www.reelradio.com/gifts/robkudl70.html#robkudl70 .

Another good/bad edit is Grand Funk Railroad's "Closer to Home." The album version (I'm Your Captain, from the album "Closer to Home') is unnecessarily long; the 45 leaves out verse that makes the story more entertaining.

I don't remember "Bluebird" by Buffalo Springfield ever being released as a 45, but I remember a Warner Brothers various artists collection circa 1974 that had a longer, more freeform version of "Bluebird" than the one we're familiar with.

As posted earlier, the long version of "Crimson and Clover" is an afterthought, with a bridge that's flat in pitch compared to the rest of the song. I have never heard a version with the pitch fixed.

 

[RadioMan203]

Of course, you could clutter the entire thread and bring up the custom edits made by stations. I remember listening to WNBC in New York, WWDJ in New Jersey and 13 WAVZ in Connecticut and hearing custom edits that would leave one imagining how they did that if they indeed did them in-house.

I had sought a copy of Rufus' "Once You Get Started" that had a cold ending but I have never come across it on either the retail or promo single, making me think this was a custom in-station edit.

Another example of one nationally heard was the short edit of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" that ends cold. The edit was produced by TM/Century, now known as Jones/TM. A single edit was never issued, as rumor had it Stevie didn't want the track edited. TM saw the need for radio and did a pretty good job, in my opinion.

 

[BenTehelenbach]

I don't remember seeing "Dream On" (Aerosmith, not The Oak Ridge Boys) in this thread. They spliced out the bridge between the first and second verses and spliced in a chorus, leaving "...innnnnn..." from the bridge after the splice. They also added reverb to the lead guitar, which made that part of the radio edit sound better IMO.

 

[Oldbones]

The "Green-Eyed Lady" edit was good/bad. The LP version has excessive intro and outro, but more entertaining mid-solos.

I also remember WHB playing an even shorter edit, with a different part of the soloage. KUDL played that version as well...

Some promo copies of GEL were a different edit than the more familiar version. It also ran ~:30 or so shorter. I'm not sure why...maybe the song had been released earlier with one edit, stiffed, then became a hit when it was re-issued with the longer edit.

Around the same time I also recall hearing a shorter version of "In The Summertime" where about :30 was cut off after the car sfx. Didn't hear it on many stations, so maybe this edit was not widely distributed.

 

[missterled01]

What about "Do You Feel Like We Do" from "Frampton Comes Alive". 3 of the 4 classic rockers in my area play the whole 14 and something minutes. Have you heard the chop-up that 96.1 the Rocket (Mobile) does with it. Also, the chopped up version of Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby' comes to mind. XM Chrome butchered this one up the other day. Hey, At least give me the first 12 minutes (right after the synthesizers and 'love to love you baby, love to love you' segment). I can remember back in that day when I thought I heard a sort of extended version on the old WNOE.

 

[OldiesCat]

Frampton

Any Classic Rock station that plays anything but the live 13 minute version of "Do You Feel Like We Do" should be ashamed of themselves.

;D

 

[ten_four]

How about Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein? I heard the edit of that the other day and it just really seemed disjointed.

I liked Pacific Gas and Electric's Are You Ready? and bought the 45 only to find the album cut. I've been looking for a promo edit for awhile. I jocked at a club that had the promo edit at one time but never had the chance to record it. Anyone know how I can get one?

 

[amfmsw]

I think Rhino is remastering all those cruddy Columbia releases on cd from the 80's. On the early Chicago LP re-releases (CTA & Chicago ll), Rhino included the 45 edits of the hit versions. Maybe you can find it in the Rhino library.

 

[ten_four]

I know there are some on this thread who don't like having the single edits on the compilation CDs, but I
personally like having them there. I usually have the album versions on other CDs and enjoy being able to
"re-live" some of the good and bad edits made to get the songs on Top 40 radio. I'd love to hear the single edit of Magic Carpet Ride again. Great single! Great edit! That's what hit radio was all about at that time.

 

[Oldbones]

I liked Pacific Gas and Electric's Are You Ready? and bought the 45 only to find the album cut. I've been looking for a promo edit for awhile. I jocked at a club that had the promo edit at one time but never had the chance to record it. Anyone know how I can get one?

Not sure if it's still in print, but the radio edit is on one of the Dick Bartley compilation CDs.

 

[Oldbones]

Re: Frampton

Any Classic Rock station that plays anything but the live 13 minute version of "Do You Feel Like We Do" should be ashamed of themselves.

One of the most boring songs ever recorded. I suppose if you're a classic rocker you have to play the long version, but if I never hear that one again it'll be OK.

 

[radiofriend1]

if U are into oldies U don't get frampton

if U get frampton do U feel like we do was THE concert highlight of any seventies rock concert........it's da bomb but only at 13 min.

 

[gregwilliamslighthouse]

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 looked through every posting and didn't see my two "favorite" worst radio edits.
Everytime I hear these two on the air, I sit on the edge of my car seat going "COME ON COME ON, DON'T WUSS OUT ON ME" and I rarely hear the full versions:

The Doors "Light My Fire". You almost never hear Robbie Krieger's guitar solo.

and The Knack "My Sharona". Say what you want about the mock-Beatles packaging of the LA Band, they did manage to break the strangle hold disco had on the record charts in August, 1979. This is the first time in over a year that a song hit #1 that was not either a disco song or a ballad. In fact, the top 6 songs the previous week were all disco songs. "My Sharona" remained at #1 for six weeks.








Mike B<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small"><EM>Edited by retromike75 on 02/23/06 07:14 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Tom Wells]

Ahh, My Sharona....

I have the 45 w/picture cover of that. Beautiful girl with big ratted hair in a thin white tank top holding "The Knack" album.
I had her as the wallpaper on my cellphone for quite a while..
Rock was better before videos....


"Bongo Rock" by Preston Epps (1963?) has an original tape splice about 2/3 of the way through where you can hear
mismatch in rhythm and a tonal change where the splice did not get joined perfectly in line.
It is unusual to hear such things in the original recordings so clearly.

 

[Don62]

"Bongo Rock" by Preston Epps (1963?) has an original tape splice about 2/3 of the way through where you can hear
mismatch in rhythm and a tonal change where the splice did not get joined perfectly in line.
It is unusual to hear such things in the original recordings so clearly.

Now that's an oldie!
It's a great instrumental, not quite in the same league as Rumble by Dick Wray, Rebel Rouser, Duane Eddy, Telstar by Joe Meek (Tornadoes) and Green Onions, Booker T. & MGs, but still a great instrumental.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Don, I'm sure it was just a brain cramp-- Rumble was performed by the great Link Wray (RIP)

http://www.linkwraylegend.com/

And to Tom Wells -- Bongo Rock was a hit in the summer of 1959 (!).

BTW according to my Whitburn, Preston Epps was "Discovered by Original Sound owner/Los Angeles DJ, Art Laboe."

Wow every time I look something up in that book, I learn something new

 

[Oldbones]

It's a great instrumental, not quite in the same league as Rumble by Dick Wray, Rebel Rouser, Duane Eddy, Telstar by Joe Meek (Tornadoes) and Green Onions, Booker T. & MGs, but still a great instrumental.

What about Wild Weekend? That's gotta be my favorite instrumental.

 

[Don62]

It's a great instrumental, not quite in the same league as Rumble by Dick Wray, Rebel Rouser, Duane Eddy, Telstar by Joe Meek (Tornadoes) and Green Onions, Booker T. & MGs, but still a great instrumental.

What about Wild Weekend? That's gotta be my favorite instrumental.

That's a goody too! By the Rebels or something?
I was gonna mention it but didn't want to run on and on.

Man, I wish we could hear some of these great rock and roll songs on the radio again.

Too bad Mike Harvey knows nothing about them. All he wants to play is Abba, KC & Sunshine Band and Blondie. Yuck.

 

[ixnay]

Back closer to the topic... the version of Gale Garnett's "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" that the satellite music service feeding the retail store where I work has a different vocal than the recording I assume we are all familiar with. Ms. Garnett sounds a little tired, even seeming to yawn on "I'll stay with you one year." But the backing vocal and instrumental tracks sound untouched. This redone vocal ruins what is otherwise one of the great summer songs (and one of the great love-'em-and-leave-'em songs ). Anyone know the story behind the re-vocaling of WSitS?

If I ruled the world, all cuts of "Light My Fire" would be outlawed except the full length version.

I probably have heard the full length version of "Green Eyed Lady" twice in my lifetime.

Someone mentioned the edit of "Magic Carpet Ride." The version on "Steppenwolf: 16 Greatest Hits" (MCA MCAC-1599) is the edited version. OTOH you can find the full version of MCR with instrumental break on "The Best of 60s Psychedelic Rock" (Priority 4XL7924). Speaking of Steppenwolf, did they ever cut a long version of "Rock Me"?

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