https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:08:46 +0000 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:37:29 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=7215 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=7215&PID=41287&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#41287 Author: jimct
Subject: 7215
Posted: 02 May 2014 at 12:37pm

Pat currently lists a (7:03) "remixed" CD in his db. I believe this version to be
the "Miami Mix" from my stock 12" single (Mercury 888-726-1):

Side 1:
1-7" Version (listed time 4:21)
2-Bonus Beats (listed 4:38)
3-Detroit Mix (listed 6:47)

Side 2:
1-Miami Mix (listed 7:02)
2-(a different track, "Chicago (Parts I & II)" (listed 6:38))

Edited by jimct]]> Fri, 02 May 2014 12:37:29 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=41287&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#41287 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36384&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36384 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7215
Posted: 09 January 2013 at 7:43pm

That time sounds about right. Both the 45 and the LP
versions run about 4:23.]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:43:34 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36384&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36384 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36381&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36381 Author: musicmanatl
Subject: 7215
Posted: 09 January 2013 at 6:32pm

I believe the NOW 1987 CD from the Millennium Series in 1999 in the UK also has the single version. It runs 4:23. Is that you show as the proper time?]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:32:32 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36381&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36381 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36372&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36372 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7215
Posted: 08 January 2013 at 9:38pm

Report: the version on Into The Night (2002) is
compressed pretty severely. Just FYI. (Thanks, Fetta!)]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:38:14 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36372&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36372 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36371&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36371 Author: Fetta
Subject: 7215
Posted: 08 January 2013 at 8:53pm

Coming your way..]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:53:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36371&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36371 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36370&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36370 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7215
Posted: 08 January 2013 at 8:46pm

Am curious to know more about Into The Night, since I'm a big fan of the early-to-mid-'90s Razor & Tie compilations.

I have exactly two compilations that include the true 45 version (sax solo), including the opening count-off:

• EMI UK's 2-CD Now 10 (1987)
• EMI UK's 2-CD Now 1987 (1993; uses same analog transfer as W. German CD single)

I have five compilations that include the true LP version (sung bridge instead of sax solo), including the opening count-off:

• Priority's Eighties Greatest Rock Hits Vol. 8 Dance Party (1993, very bright EQ)
• JCI's Only Rock 'N Roll 1985-1989 (1994, uses same analog transfer as Absolutely)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties Vol. 19 The Late '80s (1996, differently EQ'd digital clone of Only Rock 'N Roll 1985-1989)
• Time-Life's 2-CD Modern Rock Vol. 4 1986-1987 (1999, digitally exactly 1.45 dB louder than Absolutely)
• Sony Germany's 2-CD Pop And Wave Vol. 8 (1999, uses same analog transfer as the Priority disc and also is too bright)

I have three compilations that include the LP version (sung bridge instead of sax solo) but cut off the opening count-off:

• PolyGram Europe's Hits On CD Vol. 8 (1987)
• Swaitek's promo 50-CD A List Disc 40 (1994, probably no noise reduction)
• Realm's 3-CD Greatest Hits Of The '80s (2002, too loud and clips severely - avoid)

My choice for the 45 version is the W. German CD single.

My choice for the LP version is Absolutely, which is a remarkably good-sounding disc. It sounds better than any CD versions I've heard for the four Lexicon Of Love tracks, and it's probably pretty inexpensive nowadays. I myself have a UK pressing (I got it before the album was released in the US), and the US version swaps out one of the unnecessary remixes at the end of the disc. I think the mastering is the same, but I've never checked.

Edited by crapfromthepast]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:46:08 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36370&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36370 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36368&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36368 Author: Fetta
Subject: 7215
Posted: 08 January 2013 at 8:16pm

I just picked up a copy of the Razor & Tie CD "Into The Night".

The database states the version on the CD is the 45 version of "When
Smokey Sings" however, the version includes an additional verse that I
don't think is on the 45 so I would assume that it is the LP version. It
also does not include the count off. ]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:16:59 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7215&PID=36368&title=when-smokey-sings-abc#36368