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Pat Downey
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For those that are subscribers to the database, you can easily do a search by whatever year range you select to find the songs that are not on cd in the US. On the home page, under title search, simply select your year range and for "on cd" select no and then click on search.
The results by decade are as follows:
1955-1959 91 songs
1960-1969 56 songs
1970-1979 34 songs
1980-1989 24 songs
1990-1999 2 songs
2000-2006 6 songs
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80smusicfreak wrote:
| As an aside, I do have Tony Carey's "The First Day of Summer", Eddie Schwartz's "All Our Tomorrows", and Pia Zadora's "The Clapping Song" on CD, but all of those are definitely imports, and I'm not aware of their appearance on any U.S. CDs to date... |
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This comes as very interesting news, Gregg, because I've been searching for "All Our Tomorrows" and "The Clapping Song" on CD for quite some time, but I've never run across either on a digital format. I've even searched on www.allmusic.com and have found nothing. Could you kindly tip us off as to where to find these elusive hits on CD?
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Todd Ireland wrote:
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No problem... :-)
"All Our Tomorrows" is on Eddie Schwartz's 1994 CD, "Private Life (Best Shots)", from Germany. Label & no. is Long Island Records LIRC 00014. CD comes w/ deluxe packaging, including a plastic slipcover, bonus fold-open insert/poster w/ liner notes, and gold-lettered jewel case! It was a limited-edition pressing of just 2,000 copies, each individually numbered on the previously-mentioned insert/poster. Long out-of-print and needless to say, fairly tough to find (currently goes for about $20-$25). It's actually a hits collection of his '80s recordings. "All Our Tomorrows" runs (5:17), and is thus the LP version (Whitburn's "Pop Annual" states the 45 times out to just 3:58). "Private Life (Best Shots)" also includes his two other U.S. hits, "Over the Line" and "No Refuge"...
"The Clapping Song" is on Pia Zadora's 1984 CD, "Let's Dance Tonight", from West Germany (also pressed in Japan, too, BTW). Label & no. for the German version - the one I have - is Curb Int. 847.716. Also long out-of-print and fairly tough to find (currently goes for about $30-$35). The album was actually re-titled "When the Rain Begins to Fall" when released in the U.S. in 1985 on Curb/MCA 5557, w/ the same cover art & track listing (but only issued on LP & cassette here - and yes, I have the U.S. cassette). "The Clapping Song" runs (3:23), which actually matches the timing given in Whitburn's "Pop Annual", so I'll go out on a limb and say it's the 45 version. :-) "Let's Dance Tonight" also includes her two U.S. hits, "Rock it Out" and "When the Rain Begins to Fall" (duet w/ Jermaine Jackson), but curiously, not "I'm in Love Again" as well...
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I'm surprised no one (as far as I know) ever mentioned that Barry Gibb's Now voyager album including Shine shine was released in the USA on MCA 5506. Although the CD reads "manufactured in Japan" I understand this is a US release. By the way, MacMacnally's Nothing but the truth with Minimum love is available through this website www.richardsandsouthern.com (this is an official release I understand).
Half of the songs on the 80s list and many from the 70s that have never been released in the US are available through imports (Beach boys medley, S. Woods, Photoglo, Persuaders to name a few). If anybody's interested let me know and I can give more details, as I have all those CDs.
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Hi "rnell",
Yes, I am interested in your list of difficult-to-find 70s & 80s chart hits on import CDs!
Please omit anything that you feel 'sounds like it doesn't come from a tape'. There is nothing more annoying than paying top dollar for an out-of-print import that is a needledrop as I own the vinyl already.
Thank You!!
Andy
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Where are you guys getting Cliff Richard having a US hit with "Give A Little Bit More"? It's not in my book. I believe it's actually the UK song "Never Say Die" which looks like it was released in the US as "Give A little Bit More". But neither title show up in my book. It shows Cliff having 9 Top 40 hits.
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gnj1958@sbcglob wrote:
| Where are you guys getting Cliff Richard having a US hit with "Give A Little Bit More"? It's not in my book. I believe it's actually the UK song "Never Say Die" which looks like it was released in the US as "Give A little Bit More". But neither title show up in my book. It shows Cliff having 9 Top 40 hits. |
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"Give A Little Bit More" peaked at #36 in Cash Box and at #41 in Billboard in 1981.
"Never Say Die (Give A Little Bit More)" peaked at #73 in Billboard and at #78 in Cash Box in 1983.
Two totally different songs.
Just a couple of reasons to have the "Top Pop Singles" book instead of, or in addition to, "Top 40 Hits":)
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Even though they may not be on domestic CD, and I know that's the focus of this site, a quick check at Napster.com reveals these are currently available:
1970's:
Fancy - Touch Me (on Wild Thing/Turns You On)
Fancy - Wild Thing (on Wild Thing/Turns You On)
Heatherton, Joey - Gone (reissue of 1972 LP)
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eriejwg:
Pat wrote about Fancy's two Top 40 hits debuting in the U.S. on CD in the "Reviews" section of the website back in April. He reports though that the CD sounds like it was mastered from vinyl.
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Paul Haney wrote:
gnj1958@sbcglob wrote:
| Where are you guys getting Cliff Richard having a US hit with "Give A Little Bit More"? It's not in my book. I believe it's actually the UK song "Never Say Die" which looks like it was released in the US as "Give A little Bit More". But neither title show up in my book. It shows Cliff having 9 Top 40 hits. |
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"Give A Little Bit More" peaked at #36 in Cash Box and at #41 in Billboard in 1981.
"Never Say Die (Give A Little Bit More)" peaked at #73 in Billboard and at #78 in Cash Box in 1983.
Two totally different songs.
Just a couple of reasons to have the "Top Pop Singles" book instead of, or in addition to, "Top 40 Hits":) |
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Oh yeah I see now. It's a track off the "I'm No Hero" album which wasn't released as a single in the UK. I don't bother with Cash Box hits myself.
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rnell wrote:
| I'm surprised no one (as far as I know) ever mentioned that Barry Gibb's Now voyager album including Shine shine was released in the USA on MCA 5506. Although the CD reads "manufactured in Japan" I understand this is a US release. |
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Good catch, rnell. I remember seeing the CD for "Now Voyager" a few times on eBay in the past, but never got around to double-checking whether or not there was a U.S. release for that one on CD back in the day. (I have the cassette myself.) So I just did, and sure enough, my old "Schwann" catalogs from the mid '80s do indeed indicate that that title was issued on CD here in the U.S., w/ the "MCAD-5506" number. (And yes, as long as that catalog no. matches - as you indicate - that Japan pressing of yours was indeed made for the U.S. market!) Therefore, Pat can definitely scratch "Shine Shine" as well...
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Okay, two more down from the '80s ("Shine Shine" and "Girls Can Get It") since I made the above request only two weeks ago. Actually, I can get by w/o knowing the ones from the '50s and '60s. :-) Still no volunteers??? Thanks in advance...
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If anyone owns the original Agnetha Faltskog cd "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" (not the imports which are readily available today), pass along the running time of "Can't Shake Loose" and I will enter the information in the database.
Same for the original Dr. Hook cd "Players In The Dark" on Casablanca 800054 - if you have this cd and can pass along the running time of "Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk" I will enter it in the database.
And the same for the Barry Gibb cd "Now Voyager" MCA 5506 - if you have this cd pass along the running time of "Shine Shine" and I will enter that information in the database.
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'The Beach Boys Medley' was issued in the U.S. in 2003 on the four track CD, Sounds Of Summer Singles. It contains a production error, however, causing something weird to happen to the speed of the tape near the end of the fadeout. It is therefore technically not the 45 version.
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80smusicfreak wrote:
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Okay, two more down from the '80s ("Shine Shine" and "Girls Can Get It") since I made the above request only two weeks ago. Actually, I can get by w/o knowing the ones from the '50s and '60s. :-) Still no volunteers??? Thanks in advance... |
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When Pat first posted in this thread the list of songs still missing on CD, the Top 40 Music on Compact Disc database had not yet been constructed. But now that the database exists and paying subscribers can now easily pull up a list of songs not available on CD, I haven't thought it necessary to go back and spend all kinds of time updating Pat's original list. To remind subscribers of how to access a current list of songs not available on a U.S. CD release, simply go to the main page of the database search engine where it says "TITLE SEARCH". Then underneath where it says "ON CD", click the button next to the "N" option, then click "SEARCH" and, voila, a never-before-on-CD list of Top 40 hits instantly appears!
Edited by Todd Ireland on 10 August 2007 at 8:05pm
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Paul C wrote:
| 'The Beach Boys Medley' was issued in the U.S. in 2003 on the four track CD, Sounds Of Summer Singles. It contains a production error, however, causing something weird to happen to the speed of the tape near the end of the fadeout. It is therefore technically not the 45 version. |
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I pulled out my copy of the four track CD containing "The Beach Boys Medley" and it does indeed sound like the tape source begins "dragging" at the 4:01 mark (the song fades completely out at 4:08). I've never been particularly impressed with the mastering of this CD either because the dynamic range is largely lost due to overcompression of the audio levels.
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Finally here, running time of Barry Gibb's Shine shine in the Now voyager CD is 4.42
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Now is there a 45 vs LP version issue on the song "Shine Shine" as I do not have the LP or 45?
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Pat, I have just pulled out and timed my promo 45 for this. One side has a listed time (4:30); actual time (4:42) length, while the other side has a listed time (4:13); actual time (4:15) length. No long/short version designations appear anywhere on the DJ 45, even though that is obviously the case here.
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Pat Downey wrote:
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Pat, our commercial 45 states (4:30), but runs (4:42).
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