"How Do I Make You" - Linda Ronstadt

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   The actual commercial 45 run time for Linda Ronstadt's "How Do I Make You" is 2:19, not 2:25 as stated on the record label.  (This info comes courtesy of Jim a.k.a. "jimct".)  At present, the song's CD appearances in the database run from 2:16 to 2:24.

Does anyone have the parent LP Mad Love from 1980 on the Asylum label who can tell us the run time for "How Do I Make You"?

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Todd Ireland Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Todd Ireland Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: "How Do I Make You" - Linda Ronstadt Posted: 24 June 2008 at 10:34pm
	The actual commercial 45 run time for Linda Ronstadt's "How Do I Make You" is 2:19, not 2:25 as stated on the record label. (This info comes courtesy of Jim a.k.a. "jimct".) At present, the song's CD appearances in the database run from 2:16 to 2:24. Does anyone have the parent LP Mad Love from 1980 on the Asylum label who can tell us the run time for "How Do I Make You"?

eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 43	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 June 2008 at 8:49am
	Todd: The digital version from Mad Love on Napster runs 2:19.

Yah Shure Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 11 December 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Yah Shure Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 June 2008 at 11:54am
	On my Mad Love vinyl LP, "How Do I Make You" has a listed time of (2:25) and an actual time of (2:21).

Todd Ireland Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Todd Ireland Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 June 2008 at 9:35pm
	Thank you for the LP run time confirmation, Yah Shure. I realize the Mad Love album is out on CD, but I've found that sometimes a song will run a slightly different length on a CD reissue than on its vinyl LP counterpart. Once albums started getting released on vinyl and CD simultaneously in the mid-'80s, it appears there were far fewer cases of a given song's run time differing in length between the two recording media. I presume this is because vinyl and CD releases were dubbed from the same master at the roughly the same time. Edited by Todd Ireland

Kiefer2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 18 June 2016 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Kiefer2 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 July 2022 at 10:44pm
	On the listing for this pressing on Discogs of this track the original poster stated that the version is an edit of the album track. Does anyone have this pressing to confirm? The track is only 2:25 so I'm not sure what would be edited. https://www.discogs.com/release/2129784-Linda-Ronstadt-How- Do-I-Make-You-Rambler-Gambler