Partridge Family - I Think I love You

David, I do happen to own a Bell 910, U.S. promo 45 copy for "I Think I
Love You". But it is different than the one listed in Discogs, which has the
hit in stereo on one side, and the stock 45 flip, stated to be in mono, on
the other. My copy, however, has a mono/stereo coupling of the hit. Both
sides of my promo 45 copy do list a run time of (2:28), just like the one
you eyeballed on Discogs.

On my copy, however, it turns out that the listed timings are way off, on
both sides. The mono side has an actual time of (2:50) (deadwax is
"9646", then "triangle 81917 RC"), and the stereo side has an actual time
of (2:51) (deadwax is "#9646-S LW", then "triangle 81918"). Luckily, the
Discogs uploader provided full deadwax details for his copy. And both his
and my "I Think I Love You" stereo side promo 45 info do match up
exactly, leading me to believe that his copy actually runs (2:51), just like
mine does.

Wish I had better news for you, David, as to hoping your keen observation
could lead us to the existence of an officially-released 1970 DJ 45 short v.
And who knows, one might just turn up that way one of these days. But
this time, it turned out to be just another listed timing error, false alarm
in the end.     

When I began timing my db 45s, 1970 was the year I started with. And
since the listed timings turned out to be just a typo, I didn't report it at
the time. I was still trying to decide what details were noteworthy enough
to post here. At the very start, I was being especially conservative, so as
not to bombard the board with posts. So your query here did serve to re-
focus my attention on that long-forgotten listed/actual time difference,
which did soon enough become "T4MOC post-worthy" information.

Edited by jimct

Hey David, I can't swear by my fading memory, but I seem
to recall hearing the exact edit you describe, but not on
the radio. I remember it from one of the episodes of the
show that featured the song.
I tried to find it on Youtube to see if I remember it
right, but I only found one of the episodes, and that one
had the full version. MM

eriejwg wrote: Since some of the other 45's in Bell in mono at the time were dedicated mono mixes, was the 45 for this song also a dedicated mono mix? I don't own the stereo/mono DJ 45, only the stock 45 (which is in mono.)

I did a fold of "I Think I Love You" about a year or
so ago, and to my ears it sounded EXACTLY like the
mono 45. I always meant to get back to it and do some
more comparisons, but I never got around to it.

Thanks, David. The youtube video being stereo made me
wonder of the video was messed with to make match the
song.
I caught some re-runs of the show in the 80's and that's
when that edit jumped right out at me. More brain cells
I'll never get back. :-)