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sriv94 ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 16 September 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4 |
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Technical question--would those have been used for carting purposes, or were those reels how they were played on-air? Edited by sriv94 |
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jimct ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 07 April 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Doug, they were all carted up in our station's production studio. I don't think any other station would've ever done it any differently. I can't even imagine asking our jocks to cue up a reel-to-reel tape, just to play one song! You never know, though...
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sriv94 ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 16 September 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4 |
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Thanks Jim. I kinda figured that was the case.
I do know of one radio station in (suburban) Chicago that basically programmed all of their music off of four huge reel-to-reel tapes (all were vinyl dubs). If something a DJ wanted to play wasn't on one of the reels or couldn't be cued quickly enough, they retrieved a vinyl copy. (Eventually they gravitated to CDs, but it took a long while.) |
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Doug
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Gary Mack ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 06 February 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin, none of the Top 40 stations I worked for from 1964-1980 ever had a problem with noisy Motown pressings. I was so picky about pops & clicks and off-center pressings that I was the one who wound up making sure we had clean records to play. We rarely carted music, except with hard-to-find oldies or special edits.
As a result, when our stations (Phoenix, Wichita, Dallas-Fort Worth) added a new record to our playlist, I always asked record companies or local distributors for 5 or 10 promo copies....and we usually got them. The "leftovers" were later used for oldies play. GM |
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jimct ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 07 April 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Wow, Gary, you must've got your Motown promo 45s pressed at a "higher quality" plant, that serviced Top 40 stations out west; I have seen a wide quality disparity in various 70's Motown promo 45s, even for the same song. I am amazed that you had pop-and-clickless promo 45 copies for "Still" and "Three Times A Lady"; I believe you, though. But, trust me, some of us "out east" had no choice; calling Motown for reel-to-reels was not something we really wanted to bother with, I assure you!
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prisdeej ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 02 July 2011 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12 |
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Something sounds odd on the opening note on TM Century version. The intro is truncated for a split second. If anyone has been able to compare the two you can hear what I mean.
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Brian W. ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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I've wondered that, too. For some reason I'm thinking that I found out that the version in the film is a little bit different, has a different vocal take in some parts of the song or something, and that's why it's called "Single Version." But I'm not really sure. |
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Brian W. ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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It was like that on its first CD appearance, way back on the early '80s "Diana Ross - Compact Command Performances" CD. |
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crapfromthepast ![]() Music Fan ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 87 |
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The version on Compact Command Performance 14 Greatest Hits (1984) is missing the first 0.3 seconds of the opening note. It's very noticeable in a side-by-side comparison.
The following CDs are all differently-EQ'd digital clones of Compact, and also miss the the first 0.3 seconds of the opening note:
The CDs (that I have) that have the opening note intact are a mixed bag:
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LunarLaugh ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 13 February 2020 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 18 |
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I only have this song on two discs. One is the the 2003
Diana Ross & The Supremes "The #1's" compilation that gathers stereo remixes of the group's number one hits alongside Diana's solo number ones. The other place I have it is the 2006 "Definitive Collection". However these two mixes seem to be different. The bass in the intro of "Definitive..." is mixed just slightly more prominently and there is a small cymbal swell before the vocal comes in on "The #1's" that isn't present on "Definitive". Both sound good but I'm not sure which is the correct one as I don't have another source for them. |
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