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"Heart of the Night" - Poco

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Topic: "Heart of the Night" - Poco

Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Heart of the Night" - Poco
Date Posted: 06 May 2012 at 10:10pm

Just wondering if there was ever a promo 45 for Poco's "Heart of the Night" containing a shorter edit or length than the 45/LP version?

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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 07 May 2012 at 12:58am

That's a negatory on that, good buddy! All my stock/promo 45s were the
same length, although our station surely wouldn't have minded MCA doing a
short promo for it! That was also right around the time of the "ABC to MCA"
1979 label conversion, so perhaps some "label transition chaos" existed.
Poco's previous 45, "Crazy Love", had all pressings I've seen on ABC, but you
could tell later 45 pressings were done through MCA. Both that and "Heart Of
The Night" were from the same LP, "Legend."

Posted By: budaniel
Date Posted: 07 May 2012 at 7:18am

This song was on a k-tel album called Certified Gold way back in like 1980. I wonder if they used the full length version or edited it down. They tended to use 45 versions or fade the songs early if there wasn't a short version. However, Certified Gold was one of their year-end 2-record sets, and on those they usually put less songs on each side of the record, and as a result often used full length versions. For instance, I still have the 1982 album Hit List because it's the only place I've EVER found zappa's hit Valley Girl with a clean end--on the CDs I've found from Zappa, i believe it sort of begins to fade but then cuts abruptly and segues right into the next song or something like that. On the k-tel record, it actually does the fade longer and then finishes with a distinct cold end--making it much better for putting in you 80s playlist on your ipod!

Anyway, back to the Poco song. I don't have the vinyl anymore since I eventually got every song from it on CD, so I can't even really help. But maybe someone else on the boards has it and can let you know if there's a shorter version on that album.

Posted By: Roscoe
Date Posted: 07 May 2012 at 6:51pm

budaniel wrote:

For instance, I still have the 1982
album Hit List because it's the only place I've EVER
found zappa's hit Valley Girl with a clean end--on the
CDs I've found from Zappa, i believe it sort of begins to
fade but then cuts abruptly and segues right into the
next song or something like that. On the k-tel record, it
actually does the fade longer and then finishes with a
distinct cold end--making it much better for putting in
you 80s playlist on your ipod!

Veering off topic I realize, but the 12" single of
"Valley Girl" also has the clean ending.

Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 07 May 2012 at 9:27pm

jimct wrote:

That's a negatory on that, good buddy! All my stock/promo 45s were the
same length, although our station surely wouldn't have minded MCA doing a
short promo for it! That was also right around the time of the "ABC to MCA"
1979 label conversion, so perhaps some "label transition chaos" existed.
Poco's previous 45, "Crazy Love", had all pressings I've seen on ABC, but you
could tell later 45 pressings were done through MCA. Both that and "Heart Of
The Night" were from the same LP, "Legend."

Thanks, Jim, for the confirmation!