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crapfromthepast 
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 Topic: Focus - "Hocus Pocus"Posted: 20 April 2010 at 7:27pm |
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Love this track!
I don't have the Sire 45 to compare, but I think Have A Nice Day Vol. 23 (1996) is the 45 version, running 3:16. The three breakdowns in this version are yodel/flute/accordion. The sound is OK on this track - a tiny bit of clipping, and a little muffled. The muffled part (especially in this series) leads me to think that these aren't the lowest-generation source tapes, but the song still sounds OK. The full LP version goes on for 6:39, which I think is way entirely too long for this song. There's a different edit of the LP version on Time-Life's Guitar Rock - 1972-1973 (1994), which runs 3:26, but uses different (and probably incorrect) pieces of the LP version in a (probably) incorrect attempt to recreate the 45. The three breakdowns are yodel/flute/yodel. No accordion in this edit. This 3:26 version first appeared on JCI's Electric Seventies, which I don't have. Sound is also OK - not the lowest-generation source tapes. Anyone have the 45 to check the three breakdowns? |
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Yah Shure
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Posted: 20 April 2010 at 8:24pm |
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Ron, my promo 45 confirms your yodel/flute/Weird Al breakdown. :)
Yes, it is a great track, but somehow, it's never been the same to me ever since the skewering it received as part of the "Art Rock Suite" on National Lampoon's Good-bye Pop LP in 1975. Yodel/drums/yodel/drums. They nailed it in a mere twelve seconds. Edited by Yah Shure |
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crapfromthepast
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Posted: 20 April 2010 at 8:36pm |
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I've never heard that - that's really funny! I'll have to hunt down the NL album!
I had a friend in college in the mid-'80s when I was first getting started on the radio. He found out that I played pop stuff, and immediately asked if I had "Hocus Pocus" by Focus, which I didn't. Then immediately asked if I had Bruce Cockburn's "If I Had A Rocket Launcher", which I also didn't. Too bad I didn't stay in touch with him - in hindsight, he had great taste in pop. |
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Steve Carras
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Posted: 07 August 2017 at 7:58am |
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Just to get a little more..it's accordion-whistling.:)
The Baby Driver soundtrack, the first film I've heard it in, uses: yodel/yodel/yodel/(re-arranged)accordion-whislting/flute. THen again the single was a re-arrangement with the "cackling/laughing" guitar at the end acutally originally before the flute. BTW listening to the long (6:42) version. The popeye gibberish.:) |
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Pat Downey
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Posted: 08 August 2017 at 10:58am |
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Steve are you indicating that the version on O.S.T. Baby Driver is not the 45 version? It appears to my ears to be the 45 version.
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Steve Carras
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Posted: 08 August 2017 at 5:26pm |
It is, but it's a different version, as it apears in the film (three yodels, and the accordion/whistling, which on the single is the last, coming after the flute, instead comes before the flute, duriong the wild car-break.:)) Hope that clears it up. (very good movie..) |
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You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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Steve Carras
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Posted: 23 June 2019 at 12:34pm |
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BTW On the single the first yodel is edited out..the
reason I know it's the SECOND yodel on the single is ONLY yodel, NO backup BASS guitar underneath LOL! |
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You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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The Hits Man
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That alternate edit Ron speaks of was played on my local
radio station way back in 1973. I don't know where it came from as i've never been able to track it down on anything other than that JCI CD. In fact, I prefer it over the hit single edit with the accordion break. |
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LunarLaugh
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Posted: 13 February 2020 at 3:57pm |
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I only have this on Rhino's "Millennium Classic Rock
Party". What edit did they use? |
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