longest 45
The_Hook_Up
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just picked up a Led Zeppelin "Stairway to heaven" 45...Atlantic logo looks weird, and it just dawned on me I have never seen a 45 for this song, ever. I thought for sure I had, but nope in my best recollection I can say I have never seen one before...anyway, the shit is 7 minutes 55 seconds...I didnt know a 45rpm record could play this long...anybody know of any other 45s longer than this?
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I thought Immigrant Song and Whole Lotta Love were the only Zep 45s ever released.
I did also...thats why I though this was strange...its from a radio station and has the date 11-25-76 written on the label, so an after the fact single I guess...there's one up now on ebay sittin at $40...think I throw this one up for auction...
And pass up the unbeatable sound quality of an 8 minute 45?
It is hard for me to imagine any 45 going past the 5 minute mark. Have you timed it? I've come accross plenty of 45s with misprinted song times. Usually, its a radio edit and the label is showing the time length from the LP.
I think its' a special promotional item, because the band pointedly made sure that "STH" wasn't released as a single...
I've seen some 45's in the 6-7-minute range, although none come to mind at the moment. It can be done, but you can exoect the sound quality to decrease.
I've seen a couple of 6+ minute 45s (all with playing time mislabled) but never anything like that.
Not true. I don't know what the situation was like in the UK, but here in the States, "Whole Lotta Love" (1969), "Immigrant Song" (1970), "Black Dog" (1971), "D'yer Maker" (1973), "Trampled Under Foot" (1975), and "Fool In The Rain" (1979) all charted in the Billboard Top 40. And this was LONG before Billboard started listing album tracks on their singles charts.
I think Geraldo Pino "Heavy,Heavy,Heavy" is in that area too.
Details at 6.
no, havent timed it but I will say the grooves on this thing are so tightly squeezed together, they are almost nonexsistent, you can barely make them out with the eye...
I was thinking it played at 33 also, but just tried it out, it plays at 45...
I've actually had a few really thin grooved seven minute 7"s at 45... but they're really quiet.
Ah, we forgot the most obvious seven-minute seven-inch: "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris.
My copy is an MCA reissue from the eighties, and while the fidelity is a little quiet, they did manage to get the whole long shebang on a 45.
The Pino 45 clocks in at around 6 minutes, and it is much quieter than the flip.
Are we talking strictily one-track-per-side 45's?
I didn't start the thread, but if it were left up to me, I wouldn't count a multi-track EP, or a 7" that revolved at 33 1/3.
than "Hey Jude" is this Vanilla Fudge 45:
It plays at 45 RPM and when I played it on the radio, I
had to push the slider all the way to the max and it STILL
was way too quiet. I can't think of them, but I have a few
more 7 minute+ 45's from the late 60's/early 70's ... I'm
surprised so many people are like "no way" and didn't think
these could even exist ...
yeah, longest tune crammed onto one side of a 45rpm 7"
EDIT: The song is a live version of "Incident On 57th Street"
In the U.S. there were 45's for "Black Dog", "Rock'N'Roll", "D'yer Ma'ker", "Trampled Underfoot", and I believe "All My Love". Some of the picture sleeves released for 45's around the world are cool too, some of which are now on the "official" led Zeppelin website.
This is one of my favorites:
This one is, well:
Here's an MP3 of it, and it's actually about 9:54 instead of 10:03
http://www.sendspace.com/file/koxaoz
There is a significant amount of "groove echo" between 4:05 and 4:35, due to how compressed the grooves are.
runner up: any body got that Final Decisions "Who's Who" 45? Has short and long version. Long is 6 minutes + and is about half the volume of the flip.
Fela "Chop and Quench" 45 clocks in at 7.56
Other side is about the same but lacks song legnth and I'm not feeling like stopwatching it right now.
Post the sleeve, I'd like to see it.
Exactly, which is why a lot of reggae and dancehall 45's generally are 3:30 to 3:45. When I pressed up my 12" singles through Richard Simpson, I had been told that 10 minutes was best for optimum sound. I wanted my tracks on 45 for better sonics, and at that speed it's better to have tracks at 8 minutes in length or less. My song was an appropriate 8:08, and it wasn't until after all of the records sold out that someone told me that the last few bars were sped up in order to compensate. When I pressed up an acetate, it didn't have that but... it's the anti-collectors item for the 7 Crut fans out there.