Melissa Manchester - Pretty Girls

Why was it removed from the database? With a #39 Billboard peak, it may have not made the top 40 elsewhere. But I thought both the book and the database were based on the average of the specific charts Pat used. What would have changed between the release of the book and the database?

I do. I have no idea if it is the correct 45 version/length. It is not much shorter than the version found on her ten track Greatest Hits CD. I can send it out to anyone who wants to analyze it and report back if it does match the 1979 single. PM me with your email address.

Santi, I think you have your "Girls" confused. The 1983 Greatest Hits
album contains Nice Girls, not Pretty Girls. No worries, Melissa
probably confuses them now these days too!

I bought this comp too but haven't found the time yet to go to storage
and dig out my 45 of this song. On the new comp it definitely is running
or pitched slower than my CD copy ( the rare Arista copy not the
Wounded Bird reissue) and vinyl of the 1979 Melissa Manchester
album. When I sync the two versions up, the TTEOL copy drags behind
slightly. It perhaps wouldn't bother a casual listener but as someone
who remembers this song from the first time I heard it on American
Bandstand through repeated airplay on Detroit radio - thanks to Cancon
compliance - Pretty was a top ten hit there on CKLW. I know this song
well enough that alarm bells went off the second I heard it. The energy
is totally drained out of it with the variance. Anyways, enough of my
stanning for this tune - I look forward to any feedback someone with a
45 rip can share...

A funny story regarding "Pretty Girls". I was co-compiler of Rhino's "Radio Daze: Hits of the '80s" CD series, which included "Pretty Girls". As we were finishing up the project, word came to me from my co-compiler (who worked at Rhino) that someone (I had no idea who) asked if we could exclude "Pretty Girls" from the set because he felt it was a horrible song. He had no idea he was asking this of a co-compiler who's favorite female artist was and is Melissa Manchester (tied with Dionne Warwick.) His reasoning wasn't satisfactory enough for me. And we left it on :)

Bill Inglot was usually very good about using single versions - though not always (He chose the album versions for the two biggest Bo Donaldson & Heywoods hits on 'Have a Nice Day'.) But if someone is checking out versions on "Through The Eyes of Love" and the other MM CDs, you might want to also check the version on "Radio Daze". It might very well be the single version, if that's proven to be a slower (or faded) version.

Edited by EdisonLite

On YouTube, I discovered a 7:23 extended version of "Pretty Girls" ... which was created by the person who put it up. But in his description below the video he writes, "I once held the official Arista promo 12" of this in my hand at a used record store in Manhattan. Scratched horribly, 5 minutes even, and $25. I thought it was a little steep for 1:15 longer than the 45 single." And he went on to say that in the digital age he made his own long version. So I guess this answers my question to its existence, but does anyone have this 12"??