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Santi Paradoa 
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 Posted: 07 July 2012 at 7:45am |
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Thanks for the heads up Jeff. This fairly new release is also available on vinyl and apparently is a companion piece to a book with the same title. I've never heard of Light In The Attic Records, but the sample on Amazon sounds like the original acoustic version.
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Yah Shure
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Posted: 22 July 2012 at 8:15am |
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WXYG/540 Sauk Rapids-St. Cloud, MN was halfway through the first verse of the Big Band version when I happened upon it during an AM radio bandscan this morning. Even though the 250-watter runs a fairly deep classic album rock playlist, it still came as a surprise, as I hadn't heard "George Jackson" over broadcast radio since 1971.
St. Cloud is a college town in a very conservative area (U.S. Rep: Michelle Bachmann) and WXYG's local owner signed his first station on the air there way back in 1963. I couldn't wait to hear whether or not the track would air intact. It did. |
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Santi Paradoa
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Posted: 13 June 2020 at 10:24am |
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The big band uncensored version of the song appears on a 2020 CD set titled the Japanese Singles Collection. The two disc set includes tracks from 1965-1985 released on 45s in Japan (so some of the US singles are omitted).
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davidclark
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Posted: 27 November 2023 at 7:59pm |
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Great song. Just now discovering it - I don't recall it having been played on
CHUM at the time. Even though the BIg Band Version has the lowest matrix # (therefore usually considered the a-side), Whitburn books show the Acoustic Version as the a- side. Edited by davidclark |
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Posted: 27 November 2023 at 8:53pm |
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In checking over at Qobuz, both the Big Band Version and
the Acoustic Version appear on a collection called "Side Tracks." |
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Posted: 28 November 2023 at 7:12am |
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The 2013 box set 'The Complete Album Collection Vol. One' had 2 CDs called "Side Tracks" as the final 2 discs in the set, but only the acoustic version of GJ is on there.
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Paul C
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Posted: 28 November 2023 at 9:53am |
The song reached #26 on the CHUM chart, so they must have played it. It was the first Top 40 hit to contain the S-word. Clive Davis says in his autobiography that Columbia did not supply radio stations with an edited version. Stations that played it either made their own edit or played it with the word intact. |
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