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abagon
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Posted: 16 May 2008 at 12:30am \| IP Logged

"CARS and solo Top 40 hits"

(Song Title "Running time/Listed time")

"CARS"

Touch And Go 3:41/3:41

Shake It Up 3:29/3:32

You Might Think 3:03/3:04
Magic 3:56/3:57
Drive 3:53/3:55
Hello Again 3:45/3:45
Why Can't I Have You 3:49/3:49

Tonight She Comes 3:53/3:52
I'm Not The One 4:10/4:07

You Are The Girl 3:55/3:52

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"RIC OCASEK"

Emotion In Motion 3:55/3:55

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"BENJAMIN ORR"

Stay The Night 4:26/4:26

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My stock "You Are The Girl" 45 has the "howling sound" at the ending (3:53-3:55 mark) . Please verify about it. It is probable having the "version or length" description. Because the track on the LP "Door To Door" doesn't have the "Ending howling sound".

I provide the info of their 45s reached Top 40 on the 80's decade only. Please, Post the 70s info etc.too.

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Posted: 18 May 2008 at 7:14pm \| IP Logged

I just pulled out my dj copy of "You Are The Girl" and what I hear after the music stops sounds more like needle in the groove rumble than intentional howling to me. Anyone else wish to comment on this? Or is the commercial 45 different from the dj 45?

Edited by Pat Downey on 28 July 2008 at 8:44pm

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Posted: 20 May 2008 at 7:53am \| IP Logged

Thank you for your comment, Pat.
I recorded my 45 of "You Are The Girl" into my PC again. My thought isn't change because two music files made by me have the same howling. And the hissy on the backgrand also stops at 3:55. Therefore the 45 has "the intentional howling".And I tried to fade out the 45 file like the LP track using a music file editor software . As conclusion, the 45 length "3:55" the LP length "3:52" (or 3:53: Because this LP track crosses over the next track slightly.). I hope what anyone verifies this song continuously.

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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:38pm \| IP Logged

I thought I'd bump this thread back up to the front of the pack since we never came to a consensus regarding the Cars' "You Are the Girl". Has anyone been able to confirm the "howling" sound effect Abagon claims can be heard at the end of the commercial 45, but not at the end of the LP? Also, Pat, the database has not yet been updated to reflect the actual commercial 45 run time of 3:55, not 3:52 as stated on the record label.

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Posted: 28 July 2008 at 8:20pm \| IP Logged

Edtop40 sent me a commercial 45 dub of "You Are the Girl" and I compared it to the song as it appears on the "Door to Door" CD, which is the song's parent album. Like Pat, I do not hear a "howling" sound effect that's unique to the 45. I think what abagon is trying to say is that the closing high-pitched synthesizer note fades out completely to silence at 3:55 on the 45, while the synthesizer note gets "truncated" at 3:52 on the CD/LP because it segues into the beginning of the next track on the album.

So the question is... Does "You Are the Girl" qualify for "45 version" and "LP version" comments, or should the database simply note next to the Door to Door CD that the song tracks into the next selection? I don't think the database has ever really had a clear-cut policy on situations like this. So, Pat, you'll have the final word...

Edited by Todd Ireland on 28 July 2008 at 8:26pm

Pat Downey
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Posted: 28 July 2008 at 8:52pm \| IP Logged

I am not convinced that this track does overlap the following track. When I converted the files involved over to a WAV file there is very brief space between these two tracks. I will let others that own the cd try the same thing and let's take a poll.

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Posted: 28 July 2008 at 9:06pm \| IP Logged

Hmmm... Now that you mention it, Pat, I can't quite tell if the song's fade on the Door to Door CD is truncated, or just very rapidly pots down to silence. Either way, the LP does end several seconds sooner than the 45.

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Posted: 27 July 2011 at 10:36am \| IP Logged

Does anyone know if the 45 version of Touch and Go can be edited from the LP.

Thanks.

-Jeff

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Posted: 27 July 2011 at 12:58pm \| IP Logged

So you mean that NONE of their 70s classics were hits on 45-rpm discs? Really? Even "Just What I Needed" or "Let the Good Times Roll"?

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Posted: 27 July 2011 at 3:10pm \| IP Logged

To Jody,

"Just What I Needed", "My Best Friend's Girl", & "Let's Go" were all Top-40 hits in Billboard; "Good Times Roll" & "It's All I Can Do" both reached #41.

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Posted: 09 September 2011 at 9:27pm \| IP Logged

Hoping that someone can help..... Can the 45 version "Touch and Go" be created fro the LP?

Thanks.

-Jeff

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Posted: 09 September 2011 at 10:06pm \| IP Logged

Yes, it can be. I seem to recall something being tricky--either a looped section or out-of-sequence edit.

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Posted: 09 September 2011 at 10:38pm \| IP Logged

Playing with it now and can't seem to get it.... Definitely not an easy one.

If anyone can remember the edit points and can share, that would be great.

-Jeff

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Posted: 10 September 2011 at 4:37am \| IP Logged

fetta...i'm trying to send you a pm and your mailbox is full...edtop40

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Posted: 29 September 2011 at 6:23am \| IP Logged

did you guys ever get to the bottom of the edits for Touch And Go for the
45?

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Posted: 12 February 2013 at 10:27am \| IP Logged

Though "My Best Friend's Girl" was a top 40 hit, it's not in the database, so I was wondering - is the single the same as the album version?

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Posted: 15 June 2015 at 3:14pm \| IP Logged

Not a top 40 hit, but still a pretty good rocker, "Strap Me
In" from 1987's "Door To Door"...

Does anybody know if the single version really is shorter
that the LP length of 4:24?

The music video just appears to fade about 10 seconds
early, but the label of the all the 7" singles claims 3:40.

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Posted: 15 June 2015 at 5:36pm \| IP Logged

7" dub coming your way, Gene! My dub times out to 3:42

Edited by cmmmbase on 15 June 2015 at 5:37pm

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Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:38pm \| IP Logged

Thanks to cmmmbase, I can now confirm that the single
version of "Strap Me In" cannot be made from the LP
version, because of the lack of background strings in the
opening notes of the single version.

Does anybody know if the single version has ever made it to
the digital arena?

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Posted: 20 November 2020 at 8:24am \| IP Logged

Still wondering why "My Best Friend's Girl" isn't in the database when it was a #35 hit when new? And "It's All I Can Do" is in the database despite not quite making the Top 40 (#41)... so why not also "Good Times Roll" and "Since You're Gone" -- two other #41 hits for the Cars?
(They sure had a thing for just barely missing the Top 40!)

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