John Paul Young - "Love Is In The Air"

Sounds like the DJ edit to me as my recreation of the edit runs 2:57.

Ron and John, yes, it is the short version of the 2:57/3:28 DJ 45.

Edited by Yah Shure

An update, just about 6 years after my original post.

The first version to appear on CD was the promo 45 edit, running 2:56 on Session/Warner Special Products' 2-CD The Ultimate Party Album (1992). It sounds nice here.

Bill Inglot unearthed tapes for the proper 45 version for Rhino's Have A Nice Day Vol. 22 (1993), where it runs 3:28. It sounds very nice here. There's a digitally identical clone on:

• Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 25 1978 (1997)

The same analog transfer seems to be used for Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 35 AM Nuggets (1993), but this disc reverses the left and right channels and shortens the fade by about 3 seconds. Not good. There are a few discs that are based on the mastering for AM Nuggets, all of which have their left and right channels reversed:

• Madacy's Rock On 1978 (1996; digitally exactly 1.7 dB louder)
• Time-Life's 2-CD Seventies Music Explosion Vol. 4 Magic (2005; digitally exactly 3.4 dB louder)

And finally, some outliers that aren't based on the above masterings:

• EMI Australia's 5-CD Seventies Complete Vol. 1 (1997) has proper left/right channels but fades a few seconds early
• Eric's Hard To Find 45s On CD Vol. 8 (2002) has proper left/right channels, but runs about 1.3% too fast and has evidence of noise reduction (listen to the whoosh on the fade) - avoid

My recommendation:

For the 45 version, go with Rhino's Have A Nice Day Vol. 22 (1993) or Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 25 1978 (1997).

For the promo 45 edit, you can go with The Ultimate Party Album (1992), which is a pretty uncommon disc, or you can make your own edit from Have A Nice Day Vol. 22:

Segment 1
Extends from 0:00.0 to 1:53.9 of both the commercial 45 version and the promo 45 edit.
Ends on a downbeat in the middle of the word "don't".

Remove the 64 beats from 1:53.9 to 2:24.8 of the commercial 45 version.

Segment 2
Extends from 2:24.8 to 3:32.0 (end; including outro silence) of the commercial 45 version.
Extends from 1:53.9 to 3:01.2 (end; including outro silence) of the promo 45 edit.

Your mixdown will run 2:57 (excluding outro silence), or 3:01.2 (including outro silence), with a single edit at 1:53.9.

(Note that this differs slightly from my instructions above from 6 years ago. These are correct; the older instructions placed the edit too early by one beat.)

Edited by crapfromthepast

Well, there's the version on the US album - which is longer and a different edit than the 45. So I imagine Pat's database lists all these 3:28 versions as single versions, etc.

The album version only exists on the US LP, and even the original album that came out in Australia first - has the 3:28 version, so the CD release of that album (which was released in Australia only) has just the 3:28 version.

You refer to the 12" version, Fetta, I assume this is the same as the US LP version, but I can't say for sure because I don't have a 12" single.

I did, however, take the 7" version off a CD (probably the Rhino) one and re-create the longer edit (i.e. the US LP version) from the short version. Luckily, that longer recording on the US LP was simply created from the regular (7") version, so it has no parts that can't be found elsewhere.

Edited by EdisonLite

Ron,

Thanks for the editing update from 2015. I always
thought the edit before didn't sound right so I followed
your instructions from last year. Much better sounding.

Kiefer2 - My copy is from AM Gold. With the DJ edit
created, there is a slight glitch on the word "love" at
2:17. Not sure if Time-Life had a bad source file or if
that was in the original master.