https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:48:07 +0000 Sun, 25 May 2025 06:03:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=10241 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66803&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66803 Author: AndrewChouffi
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Posted: 25 May 2025 at 6:03am

Bill Cahill wrote: I have yet to find a digital release of the single version of "Loggins & Messina - Thinking Of You" from 1973 on CD or digital download. It's an entirely different recording than the LP.

Yeah, and the single version is much, much better!

Andy]]> Sun, 25 May 2025 06:03:00 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66803&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66803 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66801&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66801 Author: Bill Cahill
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Posted: 25 May 2025 at 5:00am

I have yet to find a digital release of the single version of "Loggins & Messina - Thinking Of You" from 1973 on CD or digital download. It's an entirely different recording than the LP. ]]> Sun, 25 May 2025 05:00:30 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66801&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66801 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66752&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66752 Author: Santi Paradoa
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Posted: 20 May 2025 at 1:49pm

"Goin' Down" by Greg Guidry appears on this 2018 Ace UK various artists CD compilation:

https://www.discogs.com/release/12647538-Various-Rockin-In-The-USA-Hot-100-Hits-Of-The-80s

Edited by Santi Paradoa - 21 May 2025 at 2:39pm]]> Tue, 20 May 2025 13:49:43 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66752&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66752 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66732&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66732 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10241
Posted: 19 May 2025 at 10:22pm

Hi Raul, I just sent you a PM. I tried finding that VA comp on Discogs doing various searches but had no luck. Maybe the CD isn't even on there.

I'm sure you're right about the Robbie Patton CD. I'm glad you mentioned Michael Johnson "lifetime guarantee". I checked and I do have that CD on Magic Records, distributed by EMI/France. I'm surprised the sound quality is so bad on these EMI/France CDs - but maybe they didn't even try to get master tape copies from EMI/USA and just decided to clean up the vinyl. ]]> Mon, 19 May 2025 22:22:23 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66732&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66732 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66730&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66730 Author: rnell
Subject: 10241
Posted: 19 May 2025 at 4:28pm

The Robbie Patton is in CD 4 from this compilation and number is 5099 9509 28422. I purchased it back in the day and contains EMI- Capitol International hits only (notably some unusual tracks like Industry's "State of the nation" and Private Lives "Living in a world". I'm very sure it is a legit release. If you send me an email I can send you a photo.

Regarding your other comment I have a few CDs on the Magic records label (from the EMI/Capitol label). Some were never released on CD on any other label, like the last Michael Johnson album "Lifetime guarantee" from 1983. I'm sure they are not bootleg releases although the quality is not good. ]]> Mon, 19 May 2025 16:28:03 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66730&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66730 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66727&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66727 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10241
Posted: 19 May 2025 at 2:24pm

In 2000, I had bought (and then sold) that "Distant Shores" CD from France, as it was from cleaned vinyl, where the removal of vinyl also removed much of the music and sounded awful. I'm not even sure if it was a gray-area bootleg, though I recalled it included "EMI". That's why I didn't include it.

Though I don't need a great sounding "Don't Give It Up" now, I'd be curious about getting the Philippine CDs you mentioned, but I couldn't find them in Discogs, from that title. Can you give me more info so I can hopefully find it?

Added the other entry to my original post.

Edited by EdisonLite - 19 May 2025 at 2:28pm]]> Mon, 19 May 2025 14:24:37 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66727&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66727 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66726&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66726 Author: rnell
Subject: 10241
Posted: 19 May 2025 at 12:55pm

Hi! I could add Sonny Charles "Put it in a magazine" in a european compilation released in December on the PTG label from 1983 (#40 in BB). Compilation is 80s Soul classics #8 (PTG 34262). At 3:59 it guess it is the LP version.

On the other hand Robbie Patton "Distant Shores" album which includes Don't give it up was released in 2000 by French label Magic Records.

"Don't give it up" sounds a lot better in a 6 cd compilation (in 3 double cds) from the Philippines: Best 100 Music from the Eighties. Official release from EMI Philippines released in 2007. ]]> Mon, 19 May 2025 12:55:06 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66726&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66726 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10241&PID=66720&title=not-on-us-cds-70s-80s#66720 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10241
Posted: 18 May 2025 at 9:39pm

I saw there are only 18 1970s top 40 songs & 12 1980s top 40 songs not on US CD, according to the database. I thought I'd list the songs I know of that are either on import CD, or digital download - from tape sources.

70s:
ANDY KIM      1970      BE MY BABY
ANDY KIM      1974      FIRE, BABY I'M ON FIRE
-both on the Andy Kim CD "Baby, I Love You - Greatest Hits" (EMI/Germany)
("Fire, Baby..." is not the single edit, but album length)

FANNY      1975      BUTTER BOY
- LP version on the CD "Rock and Roll Survivors" (Cherry Red/UK)

MARSHALL HAIN      1979      DANCING IN THE CITY
-on the V.A. comp "100 Hits Super 70s" (Demon/UK)

WEDNESDAY      1974      LAST KISS
-on the Wednesday CD "Last Kiss" (Unidisc/Canada)

WILTON PLACE STREET BAND      1977      DISCO LUCY (I LOVE LUCY THEME)
-12" Version on the V.A. comp "D.J. Disco Mix Vol. 2" (Beast/US) where all tracks are segued together

80s:
BARRY MANILOW      1982      OH JULIE
-on the Manilow CD "Here Comes the Night" (Arista/Japan)

CLIFF RICHARD      1981      GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE
-on the Cliff Richard CD "I'm No Hero" (EMI/UK)

GREG GUIDRY      1982      GOIN' DOWN
-on the V.A. comp "The Very Best Of AOR" (Kat Family/Japan)
-it's also on the Greg Guidry CD "Over the Line" (Sony/Japan) (which I don't have)

JIM PHOTOGLO      1981      FOOL IN LOVE WITH YOU
-on the Jim Photoglo CD "Fool in Love With You" (Vivid Sound/Universal/Japan)

JIMMY RUFFIN      1980      HOLD ON TO MY LOVE
-on the V.A. comp "25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll 1980" (Connoisseur/UK). Note: there's another version with the same title, label and UPC Code that doesn't have this song
-dj edit on "Ocean Drive 4" (Ripete/US)

ROBBIE PATTON      1981      DON'T GIVE IT UP
-on the digital release "Lost Hits of the 80's (Vol. 2)"

If anyone wants to fill in the other '70s & 80s songs not on US CD, please feel free to share the info, and I'll add it to this list.

UPDATE(S) FROM OTHER MEMBERS:

SONNY CHARLES   1983 "Put it in a magazine"
- V.A. comp "80s Soul Classics #8" (PTG/European)
(potentially LP version.)

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