Bee Gees - Tragedy

Another Bee Gees #1 from 1979.

LP and commercial 45 version (runs 5:01)

Sounds great on Polydor's 4-CD Tales From The Brothers Gibb (1990), where it runs 5:01 and 118.3 BPM throughout (drums recorded with a tape loop). The same analog transfer is used for Priority's Mega Hits Dance Classics Vol. 8 (1991), which fades a second or two earlier and may have a small amount of added compression.

Also sounds pretty good on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 9 1979 (1991), where it runs 5:01 and 117.9 BPM throughout.

It sounds good but not great on Polydor's 2-CD Greatest (copyright 1979), where it runs 5:00 and 118.8 BPM. It sounds like it's from a higher-generation tape source than Tales.

promo 45 edit (runs 4:10)

Unavailable on CD.

Here are editing instructions using the LP version on Tales as the source:

Segment 1
451 beats long, begins on downbeat, ends on snare
Extends from 0:00.0 to 3:49.1 of both the LP version and the promo 45 edit

Remove the 32 beats from 3:49.1 to 4:05.3 of the LP version.

Segment 2
41 beats long, begins on snare, ends on downbeat that would start the word "tragedy"
Extends from 3:49.1 to 4:09.9 of the 45 version
Extends from 4:05.3 to 4:26.1 of the LP version

Fade
32 beats long, begins and ends on downbeats that both start the word "tragedy"
Extends from 3:53.6 to 4:09.9 of the 45 version
Extends from 4:09.9 to 4:26.1 of the LP version

One edit and an early fade - this one is easy.

Edited by crapfromthepast

Wow - so the only shorter version is a dedicated mono mix
(not a fold-down), which has added reverb? And it doesn't
exist in stereo?

That's new to me!

Just out of interest, the commercial 45 here in New Zealand was the stereo edit, which matches Ron's instructions above. The only difference being, that it has a truncated fade on the 45 - ie the audio stops abruptly before it has faded right down.