"Paradise By The Dashboard Light"

Eric, I hadn't previously known about that particular promo 12", so thanks for
posting about what you saw. I did manage to locate one on-line for a great
price, and bought it. Once I receive it, I'll post all the particulars.

The 12 inch promo contains an edit exclusive to that
release (with play by play) I don't remember all of the
edit points but I do know that instead of repeating the
line "We're Gonna Go All The Way Tonight" 4 times, it
only repeats 3 times. And it has a very early fade.
There's probably one more edit, I just don't remember
where it is. It was edited nicely, not like the 5:29
edit.

AndrewChouffi wrote: The coolest part of that promo 12" is the second cut of side 2 - a 6:58 listed version which contains a version of "Paradise" that has Phil Rizzuto MIXED OUT (not just edited out). I will argue, however, that the Phil Rizzuto segment is the most entertaining section of the record! Andy

I remember hearing several stations playing house mixes
with custom play by play over that bridge. Never knew
there was a "no Phil" mix available.
Kind of "We Built This City" where stations inserted their
own commentary over the "no dj" version.

eric_a wrote: More details to come when I have a moment to confirm/document more properly.

Well, I didn't expect this to take a year, but thanks to the extra hour today, I finally sat down with this!

Comparing the 6:58 promo version to the BAT OUT OF HELL CD, I've identified five cuts and an early fade. Some of the
edits are out of sequence, so if you want to replicate this, you might start by marking the original file into these
six segments:

A 0:00-3:23
B 3:27-4:56
C 5:55-6:23
D 5:24-5:30
E 5:18-5:24
F 6:23-7:52

Here are the edit points:

A to B: Cut before the word "We're" (this removes the third refrain of "We're gonna go all the way tonight")

B to C: Cut on the word "Take" in the line "Will you take me away"

C to D: Cut on the fourth beat, after the line "Let Me Sleep on It"

D to E: Cut on the fourth beat after the line "in the morning"

E to F: Cut on the fourth beat after the second "Let me sleep on it"

Fade the last ~9 seconds, starting around the word "You" in the line "end my time with you"

The final edit has cuts at 3:23, 4:52, 5:20, 5:26, and 5:32, and the fade goes from 6:51 to 7:00. Good luck.

Eric, the out of sequence above threw me off. Oh well.