"El Paso" - Marty Robbins
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Topic: "El Paso" - Marty Robbins
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "El Paso" - Marty Robbins
Date Posted: 07 July 2014 at 7:47pm
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The database currently mentions the following info for Marty Robbins' "El Paso":
"stereo versions of El Paso omit several lines that are found on the mono or 45 version of this song; those lines start 1:28 into the mono version with “just for a moment.....” and go to 1:43 “.....and that was to run" On YouTube, I listened to what appears to be a dub of "El Paso" from Robbins' 1960 parent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TpWrm3FWFM - stereo vinyl LP Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs and it actually matches the above description. Can anyone with a stereo LP copy confirm this? Meanwhile, there is also a YouTube video consisting of a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZ-DFN_w8w - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs mono vinyl LP dub of "El Paso" which appears to be identical to the mono commercial 45. So if all of the preceding info is accurate, then mono database CD appearances of "El Paso" should probably have a "45 and mono LP version" comment, while stereo CDs should contain a "stereo LP version" comment. |
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Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 26 July 2014 at 6:03am
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Which it should be. The Stereo version is shorter. And the
3 track multitrack master tape is presumed missing. Otherwise, this would have been remixed for Stereo to give us the long mono version in Stereo. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 27 July 2014 at 2:21am
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Years ago I did a sync comparison between the stereo LP
version and mono 45. The mono 45 was made by splicing 2 takes together. The stereo version is "mostly" the hit single version, but it is missing the segment that was spliced in which contains the longer verse. MM |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 13 August 2014 at 9:00am
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I suspect the edit was done for the first two track Stereo
abridged reel tape release. And that was the first Stereo release of the album. I suspect that was mastered first. And released with the mono LP. And when it came time for the Stereo LP version to be prepared, the 3 track tape bearing the other take was missing or could not be located. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 17 July 2018 at 9:14pm
| Does the 2:59 radio edit even exist on CD? If not, how can you recreate it from the 4 plus minute version? |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 23 July 2018 at 8:07pm
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I think this is the 2:59. Can anyone confirm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L92An_6Muf4 |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 23 July 2018 at 10:00pm
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Yes, that is the short promo 45. I forget where in the
song the obvious edit is. ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 24 July 2018 at 10:43am
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That's my dub and video of my promo 45. I
seem to recall there being one very obvious edit in between two verses around the 2:28 mark in this video. ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 27 July 2018 at 7:32am
I've been trying to finish off my 60's top 10 collection and that radio edit has been the only one I could not find on CD. Thank you for providing it so I can hear what it sounded like. |
TomDiehl1 wrote:Posted By: garye
Date Posted: 07 August 2018 at 6:47pm
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Tom, listened to the promo edit you posted on YouTube.
Thanks for putting it up. When you hear it, it just doesn't sound complete. You can almost can tell listening. |
Posted By: Edoz
Date Posted: 24 November 2020 at 3:40pm
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Although the album/45 version differences are noted in the description on the Top40oncd page for "El Paso," there are no corresponding "45 version" or "LP version" designations for the individual CD reissues.
Is there a reason? |
Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 09 December 2020 at 10:57am
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That short edit of "El Paso" was promo only. Never
available on stock 45 RPM singles of the track. And radio mostly played the long version. ------------- I turn up the good and turn down the bad! |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 10 December 2020 at 5:43am
I recall hearing an edit of this in the early 70s on Drake's "Solid Gold" syndicated format. Wasn't aware of the promo edit at the time...not sure if that's what they played or if it was a custom edit. Don't remember what stations played during the song's chart run...didn't get my first radio until 1962, so my listening was a bit more casual before that. Must have been the complete version I heard, because I didn't have the song at the time and definitely picked up the edit. |