Cars "Tonight She Comes" -- run time?
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Topic: Cars "Tonight She Comes" -- run time?
Posted By: Brian W.
Subject: Cars "Tonight She Comes" -- run time?
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 4:39am
| CD appearances of The Cars' "Tonight She Comes" vary by as much as 11 seconds in the database, from 3:45 to 3:56. Anyone know the actual running time of the 45? Thanks. |
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 5:52am
| Brian, my commercial 45 has a listed time of (3:52) and an actual time of (3:51). |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 1:48pm
| I don't think "Tonight She Comes" ever appeared on a Cars vinyl LP release, so we can deduce that none of the song's other CD run times in the database can be attributed to an LP length. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 1:59pm
| Thanks, guys. |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 2:17pm
Todd, "Tonight She Comes" first appeared on a vinyl LP as a new song on the group's 1985 The Cars Greatest Hits. |
Todd Ireland wrote:Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 2:40pm
|
Sonofagun... I completely forgot about that, Paul! For some reason, I was thinking "Tonight She Comes" would have come off the group's 1984 Heartbeat City LP. So when I checked the track listing on that album and didn't see the song, I incorrectly concluded it was a 45-only release that later appeared on the Greatest Hits LP. My bad!
In light of this correction, does anyone have the run time for "Tonight She Comes" from the Greatest Hits vinyl LP? |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 26 May 2010 at 7:45pm
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guys....you may want to revisit this one...my commercial 45 actually runs 3:56 and has wind chimes and gongs which are very faint, but they run after the song ends for about 0:07.....if all can verify this for me i'd be appreciative.... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 26 May 2010 at 8:39pm
| Ed, when you make a request like this in the future, could you please provide the deadwax info for your 45 up front? That way, when we go pull/re-check earlier posted timings/provide the deadwax for the other 45 copy, we'll have full details for your copy, and then already be pretty certain in knowing if there were two different commercial 45 pressings for the song or not - thanks. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 26 May 2010 at 8:48pm
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Ed, my http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/YahShure/Cars-TonightSheComesDJ.jpg - DJ 45 matches your description regarding the very faint chimes and gongs. Its actual time is (3.55.7). That is also the point where the trail-out groove kicks in. Close enough.
Dead wax details: Specialty (SRC) logo, STE-69589-A-2 1-1. Same song on flip (which I didn't time) is STE-69589-A-1 1-1. The letters are hand-etched, with the "TE" inscribed as a single character on both sides. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 26 May 2010 at 9:55pm
| Thanks for the double-check/details, John. It is certainly possible that I missed those faint chimes at the end of the song during my earlier, 2007 timing. I didn't ever know of their existance. I never heard them at the ending on any radio station airing, and must've even overlooked it the day we added it back in 1986, as I was the "official carter" of all our current music during that time. Thanks for the new info, guys, and for the record I'll re-pull/re-check my 45 details for the record ASAP. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 27 May 2010 at 6:02am
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Jim, the credit goes to Ed for his extra-sharp ears on this one. But don't be too hard on yourself, either. While the first wind chime and gong or two are relatively easily heard, the latter two-thirds or so of the tail end are very faint. As your station's official carter, you would have to have drawn the line on this ending. I had to normalize the tail end in order to hear all of it, and when the trail-out groove kicked in, it was one of those moments when one curses for having had the cans cranked.
Your PD and fellow jocks would have formed an angry mob and had your official carter status revoked for having left in what, to their ears, would have sounded like dead air. Or worse: by the time the station's air chain finished with it, it would not have been pretty. :) |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 7:01pm
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FYI... "Tonight She Comes" fades out :11 early on the 1985 - Only Rock 'N Roll - 1989 CD (JCI 3128), thus eliminating most of the faint chimes at the end.
Does anyone have the Cars Greatest Hits vinyl LP who can pass along the song's run time info? I'm curious to know if it runs 3:56 like the 45. |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 20 September 2012 at 9:53am
The actual running time of the song on the Cars Greatest Hits vinyl LP is (3:53), the listed time is "3:52" on the LP record label. (Elektra 60464-1) So immediately, the next song starts from 3:53.45. on the Side Two of the vinyl LP. (Side Two-1. Tonight She Comes. Side Two-2. My Friend's Girl.) --abagon |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 20 September 2012 at 8:28pm
| Thanks for all the vinyl LP run times you've been contributing recently, Abagon. They're very helpful to me! |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 26 September 2012 at 9:21am
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The database indicates (3:56) as the 45 runtime info. My commercial 45 runs (3:53), the listed time is "3:52" on the record label. My 45 is the same as the Greatest Hits vinyl LP. The matrix number etched on the runout groove is (STE-69589-A-1)
--abagon |
Posted By: David Pro
Date Posted: 22 October 2020 at 6:26am
The 2018 expanded edition of the 1984 album Heartbeat City contains seven bonus tracks. "Tonight She Comes" appears as track 17 on this release. |