neil sedaka let’s go steady again
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Topic: neil sedaka let’s go steady again
Posted By: edtop40
Subject: neil sedaka let’s go steady again
Date Posted: 30 January 2014 at 2:51pm
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my commercial 45 for the neil sedaka song 'let's go steady
again' issued as rca victor 8169 lists the run time on the label as 2:26 and is close at 2:25.....question is, do any of the cd entries contain the proper 45 version?.....the 45 contains hand-claps throughout the chorus, while the cd version i have from the cd 'very best of' (rca 69393) doesn't have any hand claps.... ------------- edtop40 |
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Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 31 July 2017 at 9:55pm
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does this mean that the stereo version is an LP version? or a CD-era screw-
up? ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 01 August 2017 at 8:54am
| Was there a parent album for this song? |
Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 01 August 2017 at 9:48am
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Pat,
That's the question! From Discogs research, seems the first LP I have come across that contains the song is a 1976 RCA release "Let's Go Steady Again" https://www.discogs.com/Neil-Sedaka-Lets-Go-Steady-Again/mas ter/409158 If it indeed took this long to appear on an LP, no wonder the 45 became "lost". ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 01 August 2017 at 7:42pm
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"Let's Go Steady Again" also appeared on Original Hits, an even earlier (1975) compilation from RCA Special Products:
https://www.discogs.com/Neil-Sedaka-Original-Hits/master/113 9545 I bought a cutout copy for 99¢ in the late '70s of this 1977 RCA compilation, Sedaka: The '50s & '60s: https://www.discogs.com/Neil-Sedaka-Sedaka-The-50s-60s/relea se/8037854 As the small print in the bottom left corner on the back indicates, the entire LP is rechanneled, albeit very mildly so on "Let's Go Steady Again," which does have the hand claps during the choruses. The LP label states a time of (2:26); actual is (2:24.7). |
Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 01 August 2017 at 9:24pm
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good catch, Yah Shure.
I am willing to bet that the undubbed, longer version first appeared in the CD era, when CD compilers began to back to the original tapes. Probably first appeared on "All Time Greatest Hits" (1988). ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 12 August 2023 at 7:51am
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Has anyone found this song on CD with the hand clap overdubs on the choruses (to match the 45)? Maybe on a import CD? ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 13 August 2023 at 8:55pm
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Santi, the Bear Family 8 CD box set "Oh Carol" has it with the hand clap overdubs in stereo.
-Bill. |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 14 August 2023 at 12:55pm
I'm still holding out hope that I might find one of these sets 'in the wild'. The price of import shipping such a big box of discs can be a little hefty these days, not to mention what some sellers are charging for the box itself. ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
ChicagoBill wrote:Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 14 August 2023 at 5:04pm
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Thanks for the info on where we can find it with the hand clap overdubs. That eight CD box set was released two decades ago, so not surprised a good used copy sells for a small fortune these days. ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 30 August 2023 at 3:54pm
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I have the 45 version of "Let's Go Steady Again" in mono
from iTunes Canada from The Best of Neil Sedaka, which has a copyright line of '(p)1996 BMG UK & Ireland Ltd', although the release date is given as June 20, 2003, which is the release year Discogs gives for the physical CD. https://www.discogs.com/release/4552612-Neil-Sedaka-The- Best-Of-Neil-Sedaka Of the seven Neil Sedaka compilations on iTunes Canada containing the song, three have the 45 version, and all three are from 'BMG UK & Ireland'.
If the stereo version did not appear until a 1988 US release, that might explain why all 'UK & Ireland' releases appear to have the mono 45 version. |