"Mama, I’m Coming Home" - Ozzy Osbourne

Pat:

The database currently has the following comment for Ozzy Osbourne's "Mama, I'm Coming Home":

(dj copies of this 45 ran (3:23); commercial copies were all (3:18))

I was at a record convention this past weekend and picked up a commercial CD single for the song on Epic 74265. On this single, "Mama, I'm Coming Home" runs 4:11 and is identical to the LP version. Therefore, it looks like the database comment will need to be modified to reflect the fact that commercial copies run 3:18 and 4:11.

Todd, here are the details of my promo CD single:

Ozzy Osbourne-"Mama, I'm Coming Home" (ZSK 74093)
1-Edit (listed & actual 3:23; same time as Pat's DJ 45)
2-Long (listed 4:09; actual 4:11; same time as Todd's commercial CD single)

Jim sent me the 4:11 LP version, and I have an edit that runs 3:22 on Spotlight On Hits Vol. 5. (Not sure which edit that would be, but the last strum takes place at 3:13 and holds until dead silence around 3:22...)

Here are instructions for creating my Spotlight On Hits edit; timing based on Jim's mp3, where the first strum is at 0.3 seconds:

Keep 0:00.0-0:01.6 of the LP version.
Edit on the first bass note.
Remove the 8 beats from 0:01.6-0:08.6.
Keep just less than 24 beats, from 0:08.6-0:20.7. Edit should be right where the first word "I" in the line "I could be right" would fall, just before the downbeat.
Remove the 48 beats from 0:20.7-1:11.1. (The "I" from the last sentence is at 1:11 in the LP version.)
Keep 1:11.1-4:11.6 (end) of LP version.

Your mixdown should run 3:22.9, with edits at 0:01.6 and 0:22.3.

The 2nd edit occurs just before "Times gone by seem to be..."