CARS - "Top 40 Hits Info"
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Topic: CARS - "Top 40 Hits Info"
Posted By: abagon
Subject: CARS - "Top 40 Hits Info"
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 12:30am
"CARS and solo Top 40 hits"
(Song Title "Running time/Listed time")
"CARS"
Touch And Go 3:41/3:41
Shake It Up 3:29/3:32
You Might Think 3:03/3:04
Magic 3:56/3:57
Drive 3:53/3:55
Hello Again 3:45/3:45
Why Can't I Have You 3:49/3:49
Tonight She Comes 3:53/3:52
I'm Not The One 4:10/4:07
You Are The Girl 3:55/3:52
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"RIC OCASEK"
Emotion In Motion 3:55/3:55
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"BENJAMIN ORR"
Stay The Night 4:26/4:26
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My stock "You Are The Girl" 45 has the "howling sound" at the ending (3:53-3:55 mark) . Please verify about it. It is probable having the "version or length" description. Because the track on the LP "Door To Door" doesn't have the "Ending howling sound".
I provide the info of their 45s reached Top 40 on the 80's decade only. Please, Post the 70s info etc.too.
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 7:14pm
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I just pulled out my dj copy of "You Are The Girl" and what I hear after the music stops sounds more like needle in the groove rumble than intentional howling to me. Anyone else wish to comment on this? Or is the commercial 45 different from the dj 45?
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Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 7:53am
Thank you for your comment, Pat.
I recorded my 45 of "You Are The Girl" into my PC again. My thought isn't change because two music files made by me have the same howling. And the hissy on the backgrand also stops at 3:55. Therefore the 45 has "the intentional howling".And I tried to fade out the 45 file like the LP track using a music file editor software . As conclusion, the 45 length "3:55" the LP length "3:52" (or 3:53: Because this LP track crosses over the next track slightly.). I hope what anyone verifies this song continuously.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:38pm
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I thought I'd bump this thread back up to the front of the pack since we never came to a consensus regarding the Cars' "You Are the Girl". Has anyone been able to confirm the "howling" sound effect Abagon claims can be heard at the end of the commercial 45, but not at the end of the LP? Also, Pat, the database has not yet been updated to reflect the actual commercial 45 run time of 3:55, not 3:52 as stated on the record label.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 8:20pm
Edtop40 sent me a commercial 45 dub of "You Are the Girl" and I compared it to the song as it appears on the "Door to Door" CD, which is the song's parent album. Like Pat, I do not hear a "howling" sound effect that's unique to the 45. I think what abagon is trying to say is that the closing high-pitched synthesizer note fades out completely to silence at 3:55 on the 45, while the synthesizer note gets "truncated" at 3:52 on the CD/LP because it segues into the beginning of the next track on the album.
So the question is... Does "You Are the Girl" qualify for "45 version" and "LP version" comments, or should the database simply note next to the Door to Door CD that the song tracks into the next selection? I don't think the database has ever really had a clear-cut policy on situations like this. So, Pat, you'll have the final word...
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 8:52pm
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I am not convinced that this track does overlap the following track. When I converted the files involved over to a WAV file there is very brief space between these two tracks. I will let others that own the cd try the same thing and let's take a poll.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 9:06pm
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Hmmm... Now that you mention it, Pat, I can't quite tell if the song's fade on the Door to Door CD is truncated, or just very rapidly pots down to silence. Either way, the LP does end several seconds sooner than the 45.
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Posted By: Fetta
Date Posted: 27 July 2011 at 10:36am
Does anyone know if the 45 version of Touch and Go can be edited from the LP.
Thanks.
-Jeff
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Posted By: Jody Thornton
Date Posted: 27 July 2011 at 12:58pm
So you mean that NONE of their 70s classics were hits on 45-rpm discs? Really? Even "Just What I Needed" or "Let the Good Times Roll"?
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Cheers,
Jody Thornton
(Richmond Hill, Ontario)
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Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 27 July 2011 at 3:10pm
To Jody,
"Just What I Needed", "My Best Friend's Girl", & "Let's Go" were all Top-40 hits in Billboard; "Good Times Roll" & "It's All I Can Do" both reached #41.
Andy
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Posted By: Fetta
Date Posted: 09 September 2011 at 9:27pm
Hoping that someone can help..... Can the 45 version "Touch and Go" be created fro the LP?
Thanks.
-Jeff
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 September 2011 at 10:06pm
Yes, it can be. I seem to recall something being tricky--either a looped section or out-of-sequence edit.
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Aaron Kannowski
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Posted By: Fetta
Date Posted: 09 September 2011 at 10:38pm
Playing with it now and can't seem to get it.... Definitely not an easy one.
If anyone can remember the edit points and can share, that would be great.
-Jeff
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 10 September 2011 at 4:37am
fetta...i'm trying to send you a pm and your mailbox is full...edtop40
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edtop40
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Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 29 September 2011 at 6:23am
did you guys ever get to the bottom of the edits for Touch And Go for the
45?
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dc1
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Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 12 February 2013 at 10:27am
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Though "My Best Friend's Girl" was a top 40 hit, it's not in the database, so I was wondering - is the single the same as the album version?
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Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 15 June 2015 at 3:14pm
Not a top 40 hit, but still a pretty good rocker, "Strap Me
In" from 1987's "Door To Door"...
Does anybody know if the single version really is shorter
that the LP length of 4:24?
The music video just appears to fade about 10 seconds
early, but the label of the all the 7" singles claims 3:40.
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Gene Savage
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http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage - http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage
Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
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Posted By: cmmmbase
Date Posted: 15 June 2015 at 5:36pm
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7" dub coming your way, Gene! My dub times out to 3:42
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Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:38pm
Thanks to cmmmbase, I can now confirm that the single
version of "Strap Me In" cannot be made from the LP
version, because of the lack of background strings in the
opening notes of the single version.
Does anybody know if the single version has ever made it to
the digital arena?
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Gene Savage
http://www.BlackLightRadio.com - http://www.BlackLightRadio.com
http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage - http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage
Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
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Posted By: VWestlife
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 8:24am
Still wondering why "My Best Friend's Girl" isn't in the database when it was a #35 hit when new? And "It's All I Can Do" is in the database despite not quite making the Top 40 (#41)... so why not also "Good Times Roll" and "Since You're Gone" -- two other #41 hits for the Cars?
(They sure had a thing for just barely missing the Top 40!)
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Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 9:50am
Back in the 'early' days, Pat's books and then the on-line database was based on Cashbox. Not so much, Billboard.
According to Joel Whitburn's 'Comparison Book', 'My Best Friend's Girl' peaked at #44 on Cashbox. -Bill.
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Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 10:00am
I checked the actual sales figures from my record store, and found that 'My Best
Friend's Girl' sold enough copies to warrant a top 20 position. We sold more of that
than, "Tonight She Comes", which was a top 10. I attribute that to buyers already
tiring of the 'Disco Era' music and wanting to get more Rock or Punk, but I could be
wrong. -Bill.
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 11:22am
To answer some questions about which Cars singles should
be in the database----I will add "My Best Friends Girl" as
it hit #35 on BB, #39 on RW and #44 on CB. I will delete
"It's All I Can Do" as it charted #41 on BB, #58 on RW and
#40 on CB. As for "Good Times Roll" and "Since You're
Gone" they charted below the top 40 on all publications.
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