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Post by markus on May 18, 2015 17:50:56 GMT
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Post by robreich on May 24, 2015 13:17:39 GMT
I still hear the edited version on radio.
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Post by Parker Dude on May 25, 2015 19:27:48 GMT
Damn the commercials big time. They want more air time and the radio's sole purpose was to provide music (and talk in some) to the listening audience. I just don't bother to turn on my radio.
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Post by Buck on May 27, 2015 5:38:34 GMT
I didn't do the edit, Sandy Pearlman did with an engineer. It sounds kinda lame compared to the entire version. The expectation at pop radio was the 3 minute or sub 3 minute song. If you've got 4 minutes or more, a 'single version' edit was inevitable.
The third verse of "I Love The Night" was edited to fit all the Spectres songs on one vinyl record. In the CD/download era, that would not have been a consideration.
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Post by duckbarman on May 27, 2015 13:47:01 GMT
That's why I've always maintained: The Ramones were years ahead of their time...
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Post by Buck on May 27, 2015 16:09:01 GMT
That's why I've always maintained: The Ramones were years ahead of their time... I grew up listening to pop music at the tail of the door-wop era, into the glory days of pre and post british invasion pop. All those songs were barely 3 minutes, many in the low 2 minute range. It wasn't 'till our day, the dawn of 'album rock,' that songs that were singles became routinely longer. The record holder I think was "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, at 7 minutes, which radio played and reached #2 on Billboard's charts in 1968. But they hated to do it.  |
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Post by sirrastus on May 27, 2015 16:53:21 GMT
I didn't do the edit, Sandy Pearlman did with an engineer. It sounds kinda lame compared to the entire version. The expectation at pop radio was the 3 minute or sub 3 minute song. If you've got 4 minutes or more, a 'single version' edit was inevitable. The third verse of "I Love The Night" was edited to fit all the Spectres songs on one vinyl record. In the CD/download era, that would not have been a consideration. Got a kick out of Merv Griffin playing the DFTR edit and you guys lip synching into the break and looking for a sec like WTF . |
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Post by Buck on May 27, 2015 16:57:32 GMT
I didn't do the edit, Sandy Pearlman did with an engineer. It sounds kinda lame compared to the entire version. The expectation at pop radio was the 3 minute or sub 3 minute song. If you've got 4 minutes or more, a 'single version' edit was inevitable. The third verse of "I Love The Night" was edited to fit all the Spectres songs on one vinyl record. In the CD/download era, that would not have been a consideration. Got a kick out of Merv Griffin playing the DFTR edit and you guys lip synching into the break and looking for a sec like WTF . Ha, I just told that story on another forum of audio engineers. |
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Post by sirrastus on May 27, 2015 17:03:51 GMT
It was for me a real SMH moment not that a good portion of Griffin watchers were the type to notice or even clamour for a guitar solo.Hahaha you guys should have come back and done VOTPW live.I do recall Merv saying their was a lot of energy tonight because of the guests Bacharach and his lady,BOC and I dunno Anne Murray(or Helen Reddy) maybe it's been awhile.  |
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Post by blueoysterdvp on Jun 24, 2015 14:42:40 GMT
The sneakiest attempt to get radio airplay has to be Columbia Records with Simon and Garfunkel's Fakin' It. Listed at 2:74 instead of 3:14.  |
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