Jackson 5 - "Maybe Tomorrow" DJ short v
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Topic: Jackson 5 - "Maybe Tomorrow" DJ short v
Posted By: jimct
Subject: Jackson 5 - "Maybe Tomorrow" DJ short v
Date Posted: 01 May 2006 at 10:43pm
| My promo 45 on this has ONLY an edited mono version on both sides. It is listed as (3:19), but is actually (3:25). If a song went past 4:00 while listening to Top 40, my internal "warning-too long for AM" buzzer went off; it never did on this one, concluding I must've heard only this short version on '71 radio. Got played everywhere; J5 still ridin' that "4 #1 hits in '70" momentum. |
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 02 May 2006 at 6:00am
| Interesting comment Jim. My dj copy runs (4:31) even though the label states (4:29) and is mono on one side, stereo on the other but both run (4:31). I have already added your (3:25) edit information to the database. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 7:10am
| I have the dj copy that runs 4:31 (label states 4:29) as well. Thinking I could recreate this fade from the LP version, discovered at about 4:29 on the LP version, there is some instrumentation that overpowers the vocal, whereas on the promo 45, the same instrumentation is buried behind the vocal. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 10:14pm
| The database note next to the song title lists times for the DJ and stock 45s. It doesn't mention anything about the LP run time, nor does it have comments next to the CD listings. Stereo versions on CD run between (4:38) and (4:44). Pat, do you know the actual LP run time on this? |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 7:17pm
| There is at least one difference between the 45 version and every stereo version I've heard. On the stereo version at (2:04), after Michael has sung the chorus for the first time, his brothers sing "Maybe she won't." This line was mixed out of the 45 version. |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 1:37pm
I don't think it got played in Boston. I don't remember the song, and a check of summer '71 surveys from both WMEX and WRKO shows that it didn't chart on either station. Gave a listen to it on the Anthology album, and it didn't sound familiar. Both stations were being affected by FM competition (mostly album-rock WBCN), and were steering clear of some of the more blatant teenybopper songs that summer/fall (though I did see songs by the Partridge Family & various Osmonds charted). |
jimct wrote:Posted By: bwolfe
Date Posted: 04 August 2008 at 5:24pm
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That one got a decent amount of play at WCRO in Johnstown, PA.
Paul C is correct about the vocal at 2:04 in the stereo mix. I always thought the song was a bit tedious and didn't have a great hook like their other hits. It peaked #20 on the Billboard pop chart, I wonder if it did better on the R&B side? ------------- the way it was heard on the radio |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 5:28am
Much better on the R&B chart (peaked at #3 for 2 weeks). |
Posted By: waldo
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 6:11am
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anyone found this short version on CD..? i've never found it. i'm hoping it will be included on the 1971 Motown box set.
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 9:54am
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I created my own short version after listening to a dub of the short promo 45.
My own promo of this song runs 4:29. |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 06 November 2013 at 6:16am
yet correct? ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 06 November 2013 at 8:53am
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Correct. And thanks for the heads-up on the release date of Complete
Motown Singles 1972: 12B, Santi. I was gonna Google it myself this weekend, figuring they'd want to get it out before Christmas, now that the Stevie Wonder 1972 song issues have finally been resolved. |
Posted By: Tim Brown
Date Posted: 08 November 2013 at 6:48am
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I was trying to find the short DJ promo edit on You Tube, but had no luck. Does anybody have the edit points for this song? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Tim |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 08 November 2013 at 8:32am
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Starting with the mono version on the Complete Motown Singles box, remove the segment between 1:58 and 2:56 (just before the word "maybe" in both places). Fade out the remaining audio from 3:06 to 3:24. The last words heard on the promo are "you'll come back to my..." ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: Tim Brown
Date Posted: 08 November 2013 at 7:32pm
| Thank you so much! |
Posted By: collectahit
Date Posted: 29 May 2017 at 7:17pm
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I remember hearing the short mono DJ edit of "Maybe
Tomorrow" on an FM station in New York and liking it because it was perky (even though I didn't like the unedited version much). Not consciously realizing it was a different version, I was disappointed after buying the 45 at Woolworth's because it was the tedious (too) long version. (Unhappy that the DJ edit didn't appear on the 1971 "Complete" Motown Singles box set. I had to make my own edit!) Another thumbs down moment was purchasing the 45 of "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, so punchy on 97 WWDJ AM radio from New Jersey, but thin-sounding on the stock copy. (I recently heard a rerun of Casey Kasum's American Top 40 where he played this beefed-up mix just as I had remembered hearing it decades earlier!) Yet another bummer was buying a stock copy of "The Best Disco In Town" by the Ritchie Family and disliking the two-part treatment that split the song in half, while AM giant 77 WABC in New York played a radio-only edit that contained both verses of the medley! It wasn't until years later that I discovered radio stations were serviced with specially edited or remixed versions of some singles, which explained such aural deceptions. |