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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jan 6, 2010 16:24:58 GMT -5
I'll say "Gettin Together". Youtube doesn't have the original version. I have the 45 of this, MC. The flip side is a song called "Real Girl." The reason I remember this is because back in the day, some women's product company (maybe sold shampoo or perfume or whatever) ran a TV ad - I don't remember the actual product, but the jingle (which sounded like a combination of the two songs) was "getting together with a real girl." At the time, I wondered how many people got it. |
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Post by Ken on Jan 6, 2010 16:50:28 GMT -5
I like Joan's version of "Crimson." Yeah Tiffany's version of "I Think We're Alone Now" was dreadful, and how can we forget her cover of "I Saw HIM Standing There" ugh! Agreed...as bad as "I Think We're Alone Now" was, I think her Beatles cover was even worse. Yikes! Ken, your mention of that song gives me an idea for another new thread... Cool!  |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jan 6, 2010 22:54:53 GMT -5
Earler today, while under the Curse of the Web Weasel that blocked me from YouTube, I mentioned that my favorite Tommy James and the Shondells song was Sweet Cherry Wine.
Here's a studio version that is claimed to be the original. It's not the version I have on the 45, and I don't care for it as much. (Probably a heard it first thing.)
Here's a pretty good live version from this past summer at the San Diego County Fair.
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Post by Dawn on Jan 6, 2010 23:06:42 GMT -5
Earler today, while under the Curse of the Web Weasel that blocked me from YouTube, I mentioned that my favorite Tommy James and the Shondells song was Sweet Cherry Wine. Here's a studio version that is claimed to be the original. It's not the version I have on the 45, and I don't care for it as much. (Probably a heard it first thing.) Here's a pretty good live version from this past summer at the San Diego County Fair. The first version sounds like the one used on the Roulette Best of collection, but they may have used album versions rather than singles for that compilation. There is often quite a bit of difference between album/single edits and/or mono/stereo mixes when it comes to '60s songs especially. |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jan 7, 2010 10:20:34 GMT -5
Earler today, while under the Curse of the Web Weasel that blocked me from YouTube, I mentioned that my favorite Tommy James and the Shondells song was Sweet Cherry Wine. Here's a studio version that is claimed to be the original. It's not the version I have on the 45, and I don't care for it as much. (Probably a heard it first thing.) Here's a pretty good live version from this past summer at the San Diego County Fair. The first version sounds like the one used on the Roulette Best of collection, but they may have used album versions rather than singles for that compilation. There is often quite a bit of difference between album/single edits and/or mono/stereo mixes when it comes to '60s songs especially. I don't think it's just a single edit vs. album cut, Dawn. It's a different take. Maybe done at the same studio session, but it sounds different enough that I don't think it's just an edit. I just realized another component of my "heard it first" theory - at least for me. If I first hear, and like, a 45 edit of an actual album track - that is, the 45 version is "cut and pasted" right from a portion of the album track, - and then later hear the entire album track, I generally like the album track better. I guess my brain is saying Hey this is a song I really like, and now I get to hear more of it! As opposed to when the album track is from a different take or even a different session. Then, if I hear the 45 version first, when I hear the album track later, I don't like it as much. |
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Post by m c dornan on Jan 7, 2010 13:27:50 GMT -5
I'll say "Gettin Together". Youtube doesn't have the original version. I have the 45 of this, MC. The flip side is a song called "Real Girl." The reason I remember this is because back in the day, some women's product company (maybe sold shampoo or perfume or whatever) ran a TV ad - I don't remember the actual product, but the jingle (which sounded like a combination of the two songs) was "getting together with a real girl." At the time, I wondered how many people got it. Well I sure wouldn't have got it- I never heard the song "Real Girl". |
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Post by Ken on Jan 7, 2010 15:56:38 GMT -5
The first version sounds like the one used on the Roulette Best of collection, but they may have used album versions rather than singles for that compilation. There is often quite a bit of difference between album/single edits and/or mono/stereo mixes when it comes to '60s songs especially. I don't think it's just a single edit vs. album cut, Dawn. It's a different take. Maybe done at the same studio session, but it sounds different enough that I don't think it's just an edit. I just realized another component of my "heard it first" theory - at least for me. If I first hear, and like, a 45 edit of an actual album track - that is, the 45 version is "cut and pasted" right from a portion of the album track, - and then later hear the entire album track, I generally like the album track better. I guess my brain is saying Hey this is a song I really like, and now I get to hear more of it! As opposed to when the album track is from a different take or even a different session. Then, if I hear the 45 version first, when I hear the album track later, I don't like it as much. Ed, This was one of the many songs used for the soundtrack for the U.S. version of the TV series "Life On Mars." |
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