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Post by gremashlo on Jan 21, 2008 17:29:08 GMT -5
This has always puzzled me...
We all know that due to various reasons that 45 singles often were edited from longer album tracks...but I know of only one instance where the single is longer than the album cut--
Devil With a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels actually has one more verse on its 45 release than any album track that I've found. Plus, the 45 track, the album track and the cut used for radio are all the same one, yet the 45 is longer...
Any other similar oddities?
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jan 22, 2008 8:49:32 GMT -5
This has always puzzled me... We all know that due to various reasons that 45 singles often were edited from longer album tracks...but I know of only one instance where the single is longer than the album cut-- Devil With a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels actually has one more verse on its 45 release than any album track that I've found. Plus, the 45 track, the album track and the cut used for radio are all the same one, yet the 45 is longer... Any other similar oddities? Grem, were these album tracks off of Mitch Ryder albums or off of Ktel-like compilations? Back in the '60s, most of those compilations were abreviated versions of the 45s. |
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Post by gremashlo on Jan 22, 2008 19:45:10 GMT -5
This has always puzzled me... We all know that due to various reasons that 45 singles often were edited from longer album tracks...but I know of only one instance where the single is longer than the album cut-- Devil With a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels actually has one more verse on its 45 release than any album track that I've found. Plus, the 45 track, the album track and the cut used for radio are all the same one, yet the 45 is longer... Any other similar oddities? Grem, were these album tracks off of Mitch Ryder albums or off of Ktel-like compilations? Back in the '60s, most of those compilations were abreviated versions of the 45s. The only contemporary LP I have of Mitch is "All Mitch Ryder Hits!" (New Voice 2004), where "Good Golly/Devil with a Blue Dress" clocks in at 3:01--on the New Voice 817 single release, it is also listed at 3:01, but Bob Crewe did the old Phil Spector "bogus time listing" trick for whatever reason, because the single clocks at about 3:16. You can pick up pretty easily where the edit occurs--right towards the end of the final guitar solo, Mitch suddenly sings "Wearin' her pearls and diamond rings..." which is the end of the verse that was oddly removed from any/all album/radio copies that I've found. The only reason I can think of is that the final verse has a rather discordant piano part mixed loudly (and rather annoyingly) in the background--maybe someone at New Voice clipped it when it became a hit and was remixed for album tracks... |
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