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AndrewChouffi 
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 Topic: Promo 45 of "Isn’t She Lovely"?Posted: 10 May 2006 at 9:13am |
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Hi People,
Was there a USA promo 45 of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely"? Any & all info would be appreciated. Andy |
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jimct
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Posted: 10 May 2006 at 12:22pm |
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Never was, Andy. There was a bonus 4-song "EP" included inside the "Songs In The Key Of Life" 2-LP set, but "Isn't She Lovely" was included as part of the actual LPs. My local Top 40 station never played the "baby" intro - sounded great - it just kicked in with the keyboards as the first note. Because of that, as a listener, I also wondered about a different issuance on it. But, within a year and a half, I was working there, and I asked staff members who were there at that time what the deal was on it. They said they dubbed it to reel-to-reel tape, chopped off the baby intro, and just carted it up.
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eric_a
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Posted: 10 May 2006 at 12:59pm |
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There's a short (~3:45) edit on a TM Century Golddisc. Did they cut that themselves?
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Posted: 10 May 2006 at 1:09pm |
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Simply because it was so long, by Top 40 standards, I would imagine there were many different attempts at an "in-house" edit, done by both radio and the TM's of the world - TM is a subscription service, and it's just good business by them to provide radio-friendly versions of long cuts that their clients (radio) could use, legit or otherwise....
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sriv94
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Posted: 10 May 2006 at 1:21pm |
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It may not be sanctioned, but it's funny--all the radio edits I've heard pretty much follow the same formula (snip the baby cries and edit the instrumental ending so that only two verses remain).
I should point out that the import version of Stevie Wonder's The Definitive Collection has a (3:21) version (snipping the baby cries, having one instrumental line at the beginning before the vocals kick in and fading out the [unedited] instrumental ending way early). Edited by sriv94 |
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Posted: 10 May 2006 at 4:35pm |
Not only was there no promo version, Tamla/Motown couldn't even supply one thanks to Mr. Wonder. Stevie didn't want an edited version and prevented it's release. From what the record company told me and numerous other Top 40 programmers at the time, they were begging Stevie and he still said No. Hey, it's art....I guess. GM |
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Jeff H.
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Posted: 10 May 2006 at 9:31pm |
I'm pretty sure that they did. TM Century actually did a good job editing the song since they nearly cut the song in half, down from it's original length of 6:40. They cut most of the intro, and long instrumental passage in the middle. Yet it still manages to sound pretty complete down the cold ending on the long version. The oldies stations in my area play this version. It's rather ironic that Stevie wouldn't allow an edited version of "Isn't She Lovely" to be released as a single. The other two singles released, "Another Star" and "As" were both dramatically edited down from their original LP lengths when released as 45's. Both of those singles barely scraped the bottom half of the top 40. |
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Paul Haney
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Posted: 26 August 2010 at 9:46am |
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Bumping this up for those interested.
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Posted: 26 August 2010 at 12:30pm |
In the case of "As" it's just a very early fade. I Don't remember the LP version of "Another Star" to know if the 45 was an edit or a fade. |
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AndrewChouffi
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Posted: 13 April 2019 at 7:16am |
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Bump this thread!
I noticed on Discogs a picture of a "promo 45" of "Isn't She Lovely". Is this picture a clever bootleg? Any information? It's shown on YouTube also. Andy |
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