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Jul 16, 2022Liked by Michael

Good stuff Mike! finally have time to read your blog! Seattle’s Jeff Angell leader of Walking Papers writes some great lyrics. “I was born with blood shot eyes and a broken heart; I've got the experience but I'm not very smart. I was raised on a shoestring, I was thrown to the wolves. I cut my teeth on minor chords, I was trampled under hooves. If love is blind, baby, you can leave me in the dark.”

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Great lyrics - I definitely have a mind’s eye visual of the guy in the song!!

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That was fun, Michael! Thanks! A topic never really brought up....the recorded segue! An entire album was formatted like that, not unlike a radio station playing hits back-to-back, understandable when you consider the artist: "The Raspberries Best" LP!

I flipped when I first heard it, because you knew the band and/or Capitol had exactly that in mind--hits played on the radio non-stop, without the 5-second banding on most albums! I couldn't find the album on YT, and Spotify, while they have the album, all they do is provide the songs that were on the album, which, of course, means they're not allowing for the natural way the album was produced and pressed. *sigh*

It WOULD be fun to ferret out other songs that tracked seamlessly on albums like the Jackson Browne example. The WHY would certainly be interesting, too! Thanks again!

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Thanks, Brad! - well there’s some vinyl I’ll have to hunt down for sure!! Thanks also for the (I assume insider DJ idioms) “5 second banding” and “recorded segue” - I was going to call them the “between track space” and “songs that sort of run into each other” next week, but now I can sound like a real DJ. Actually, I’ll just credit you and retain my amateur status - lol

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Aw, shucks....Thanks! Another great example of that terminology is what Warner Bros. Records did to the Chrysalis (a WB subsidiary in the early '70s) promo issues of both "Thick as a Brick" and "Passion Play" by Jethro Tull. Both albums were famously un-banded, creating one "complete song" on each!

To encourage radio play (on both AM...so, they'd at least, have a CHANCE to play one....and FM....so, they'd more easily play a cut or two, so jocks, themselves, wouldn't have to fade out at some point the artist hadn't intended), Warners banded special promo albums of each, and serviced radio stations with them!

These edits (with stickers on the front cover noting each "new song's" running time, I believe, were a function of the label's engineers/producers (likely in coordination with A&R/promo suits for suitable and musically passable edit choices), with the artists wanting nothing to do with it.

Obviously, hard-core Tull fans (of which I'm one) thought this blasphemous, but they could always have the original "street" issue; these promos were just for radio to prompt airplay! Can't say it worked all that well, as we came to know and appreciate Tull as the landmark classic rock band THAT STILL ISN'T IN THE HALL OF FAME! Lead singer/flutist, Ian Anderson, is still performing quite frequently, playing the Tull songs he wrote 5 decades ago!🎶🎸🎵😀

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Big JT fan here as well - I’m sure I heard the “recorded segue/2 songs that kinda run together” version back in the day, but forgot about it. Thanks for the backstory!! Mind if I quote you next week? The “inside baseball” insight you provide is great stuff!!

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Sure, I'd be honored, Michael! I appreciate your enthusiasm for what my past experiences can still mean decades later (as long as I can still remember 'em...so far, so good!), and I really appreciate your full acceptance of my anecdotes in your comment section!🤗👍

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