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  DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 635 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 149.174.164.24 |
I would like to dedicate this thread to a feeling you get....when youare on the dance floor or perhaps in a certain groove when 'that song' comes on....and you are thinking, MAN this is the friggin' jam!... and all of a sudden the song goes off! Then you think, why the heck did they make that darn song so short?! Well I'd like to name a few that should have lasted longet than 2 minutes...lol....and 1 second...lol.... Ray Charles - Busted (RIP Ray, but when you get into the song, it ends, man!) Ecstacy - Ohio Players - tell me this dont start out SWEET and then ends.... The Lover's Holiday Interlude - E, W and Fire - a/k/a the 'ba da bababababa song'...lol... How come they end it like that?! Bootleg! Going Out of My Head - Delphonics version - Just as Will warms up, the song goes off! Darn it! just a few...what ya'll short song dilemmas? | ||
Kev-Lo (7273747576) 4-Laureate Username: 7273747576 Post Number: 103 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.237.231.31 |
Hi this is Kev-Lo is DyvaNaye I know what you are talking about Because The other day I was playing The Tymes So Much In Love and for a killer song like that It's a shame that song was too damm short. But never the less I still love that song today. | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 6-Zenith Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 507 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 70.16.141.148 |
Stay, by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs--- 1 min and 59 sec. | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 5-Doyen Username: rodmann Post Number: 194 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.220.110 |
Most of my favorite 60's Soul songs only last about 2 and a half minutes but boy did they pack some good musicianship and a hell of a lot of Soul in those 2 minutes! LOL. I like 'em short and to the point. That's why I've always been more of a single collector instead of an album collector. The only song I can really think of is the radio edit of Dionne Warwick's 'Deja Vu'. Whoever chopped that one up should be ashamed of themselves! The album mix is a little longer and 10 times better. I also wouldn't mind hearing a longer version of High Inergy's 'You Can't Turn Me Off' than the one that clocks in at 3:34. It seems as if the lead singer is just starting to get warmed up and then the song is over!  | ||
Chi Drummer (chidrummer) 2-Debutant Username: chidrummer Post Number: 12 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 24.14.41.10 |
Aretha Franklin's "I'm in Love". Clocks in at 2:48, could have been twice as long IMHO. | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 5-Doyen Username: robb_k Post Number: 321 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 82.217.153.9 |
"So Blue"by the Vibrations was only 1:30!!! It had only two stanzas with chorus, instead of the usual 3. I thought they had a power outage during the last 1/3 of the song, during its recording session! Also, "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows"by Lesley Gore was only 1:40!!!! It stops abruptly, on one note. They left off the last third of the song!!! (Message edited by Robb_K on June 15, 2004) | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 6-Zenith Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 1147 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Hey Rod, If you can find the High Inergys LP "Turnin' On", You Can't Turn Me Off lasts for 5:09. | ||
roger (roger) 4-Laureate Username: roger Post Number: 87 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Hello Everyone. "Wives and Lovers" by NANCY WILSON is ridiculously short. I don't own a copy of it (yet!) but it got played on JAZZ-FM in London a few months back and I was just starting to enjoy it and it ended. The D.J. made some comment about it being only one and a half minutes long. "Girls Are Out To Get You" by THE FASCINATIONS is also less than two minutes long and could have done with an extra verse or an instrumental break. Roger | ||
Kdubya (paladin) 3-Pundit Username: paladin Post Number: 50 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 206.185.64.23 |
One song immediately comes to mind : Varee is Love /Ohio Players Kdubya | ||
Gary (gary) 3-Pundit Username: gary Post Number: 44 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.73.238.5 |
Every time I listen to the studio version of Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness", I feel let down. Just as Otis is cranking it up, the song goes into its fade. The live version lasts a little longer, but the studio cut really starts to rock and then the song ends. Drives me nuts every time I hear it. | ||
Vic Doucette (vic_doucette) 1-Arriviste Username: vic_doucette Post Number: 9 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 63.115.63.131 |
Eli, stay is actually more like 1:30 long. And, according to Casey Kasem's "American Top-40" show that I had to spin one weekend at work, it is the shortest #1 record of all time. The longest? Well, I won't tell you just yet, but I'm sure many SD folks would list it as one of their favorites. BTW, this data is from around 1987 or so, and might be outdated. | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 6-Zenith Username: wonder_b Post Number: 453 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.248.163.99 |
James Brown's 'Mother Popcorn'... this one could last forever... LOL Wonder B If you mess with my 'fro, you will get kabongged! | ||
John Lester (theboyfromxtown) 3-Pundit Username: theboyfromxtown Post Number: 51 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.44.166.84 |
Martha's Dancing In The Street.....it could have gone on for half an hour, in my opinion. | ||
Don (don) 5-Doyen Username: don Post Number: 190 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.75.62.210 |
Hi DyvaNaye, That's interesting that you mention The Ohio Players led Junie Morrison song "Ecstasy". I think the song takes on a real encounter of an experience. I don't mean to sound nastyish. I think the song does has a sweet sentiment. It's like two people that commiting to the act of love. And I guess we all have been thru it, it'll start off as Pleasure, ECSTASY and then Climax. I guess that's how Junie improv to the song, and the feelin'is adlib, cause no one can write it down on paper lyrically, also to the point of CLIMAX....Blah-blah-blah-blah- blah-blah, blah? I think the song shoulda been called "Climax"? | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 650 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 209.212.74.198 |
oh Don you sexy thing you...what you know about Exstacy and Climaxing and all that?...hee-hee-hee....'you so romantical'...lol.... | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 5-Doyen Username: rodmann Post Number: 199 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.220.110 |
OK Juice. I've had High Inergy's 'You Can't Turn Me Off' single for years and I've always wondered if their was a long version on the album. I've tried searching for an mp3 copy but I've had no luck finding an extended version. At least I know that there is one now. Thanks! | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 159 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
Hey Rod! There is an extra verse on High Inergy's song that was only included in the album version. Damn, I should've bought that album when I had a chance. I don't understand with all these songs coming out on cd why the long version isn't incorporated on the compilation. I wish I was on "The Board" that makes these decisions, ha ha! Handsome | ||
Manny (manny) 5-Doyen Username: manny Post Number: 185 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.52.4 |
Hello again, soulful brother and sisters! I don't knows if the Incognito's album "Beneath The Surface" is known by you. There are a US edition and perhaps is the most "soulful" in the entire Incognito's discography. The fact is the first track, "Solar Fire" is very very good. Is a instrumental in the same "spirit" of the most mellow Hammond B-3 Booker T Jones style... And its only by two minutes and 11 seconds! I plays it two or three times everytime because when i "captured" the feel the track is ended. The most short I knows is a acapella (i supouse by The Sweethearts Of Sigma) titled "Jack & Jill", the last track in the album "Nice'N'Nasty" by Salsoul Orchestra. (15 seconds!!) Peace & Soul Food | ||
Don (don) 5-Doyen Username: don Post Number: 199 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.75.60.32 |
Hello DyvaNaye, I've sewed some oats in many times. The song may be too short, like an energizer it keeps going and going and going and going and going, on and on and on and on, etc! | ||
tricky (tricky) 1-Arriviste Username: tricky Post Number: 1 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.133.188.244 |
PEGGY GAINES,SWEET WAY OF LIVING ON REFOREE ENDS JUST AS IT GETS GOING.AS DOES MIGHTY JOE DRAKE,TRY TRY TRY ON KAPP. | ||
Galactus (galactus) 3-Pundit Username: galactus Post Number: 45 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 207.144.253.114 |
I totally agree with Eli on "Stay"......so many songs of that era were too short.... Another one that could've been a minute or two longer is the Del-Vikings' "Whispering Bells"......just as you get into it they start the "ahhhhh....aahhhh....whisperin g bells" fade out........ | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 5-Doyen Username: luke Post Number: 306 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
He's So Fine--the Chiffons. | ||
Dayo (dayo) 3-Pundit Username: dayo Post Number: 33 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.134.209.156 |
Bob Relf's "Blowing my mind to pieces". It clocks in at about 1 min 55, and that's the only bad thing I can say about this slice of soul heaven. | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 5-Doyen Username: luke Post Number: 310 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
Isnt He's So Fine about 1:58? | ||
lenny (lennytone) 4-Laureate Username: lennytone Post Number: 75 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.241.86.12 |
"Bluebirds Over The Mountain" by Ersel Hickey is 1:05!! All of these short songs are great. They leave you wanting more. That's what entertainers are supposed to do. | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 6-Zenith Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 1318 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Brazilian Rhyme Interlude by Earth, Wind & Fire on their 1977 LP "All 'N All. That interlude should have been a full song. That song is a classic..."Body-ah...body-ah"! !! Still a classic!!! Smilin' at ya, wishing you..... Peace!  Juice | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 6-Zenith Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 1319 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Hey Rod, About that High Inergy LP version, I'll be shouting at ya on that!!! Get back to me! | ||
SF3000 (slyfan_3000) 4-Laureate Username: slyfan_3000 Post Number: 78 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 64.169.107.104 |
Aint Givin Up No Ground..Ohio Players | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 5-Doyen Username: rodmann Post Number: 230 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.46.59 |
What's up Juice! I don't have your email address but mine in rodmann2981@insightbb.com. Holla at me! | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 6-Zenith Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 1354 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Happy 5th of July. I hope that everyones' holiday was safe & enjoyable! Rod, my e-mail address is juicefree@hotmail.com. I'll be talking with you. | ||
S.R. (fury13) 2-Debutant Username: fury13 Post Number: 14 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.2.196.4 |
Nathaniel Mayer's "Village Of Love"... 1:59. | ||
Bong-Man (bongman) 1-Arriviste Username: bongman Post Number: 10 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 63.148.123.128 |
The Box-Tops...."The Letter"....1:56 | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 374 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 216.37.212.17 |
I think a lot of the 50's doo-wop songs were short! I kinda wish that SPEEDO was longer..very catchy! SILLY WASN'T I was a short one too! | ||
Gil (gil) 2-Debutant Username: gil Post Number: 24 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 65.3.168.241 |
Bill Withers "Grandma's Hands" 1:59 also.  | ||
john dixon (john_dixon) 3-Pundit Username: john_dixon Post Number: 59 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.58.196.3 |
"Grandma's Hands" accomplishes SO much in just 1:59. If only songs clocking in much longer could be half as eloquent. | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 6-Zenith Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 730 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.163.49.181 |
For your precious love ..The Impressions 123.. Len Barry | ||
kevin quinn (kevin_quinn) 2-Debutant Username: kevin_quinn Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 151.197.119.79 |
Marvin Gaye's "I Wanna Be Where You Are" only ran for 1:17 on the original "I Want You" album. It wasn't even listed on the jacket but somehow got listed on the record itself. Does anyone know how this happened? I always felt it was too short and wanted to hear a lot more. Thankfully, the extended mix (6:07) on the Deluxe Edition provides for a welcomed jam. | ||
Gil (gil) 2-Debutant Username: gil Post Number: 25 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 65.3.168.241 |
You are so right, Mr. Dixon. I never knew it was that short until I was listening to it on my jukebox. It makes most normal length songs seem like "fluff"! | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 402 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 216.222.243.148 |
kevin quinn...let me research that album cover for I WANT YOU. I could have sworn that it was on there. | ||
Don (don) 5-Doyen Username: don Post Number: 357 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.75.173.112 |
There's 2 songs from The 80's I recall. Johnny Taylor's "I'm Gonna Shoot To The Stars" and Gene Chandler's "Parton Me, Haven't I Heard That Line Before". I liked both songs. Who knows, maybe their we're time restrictions to get as many songs on a lp? They we're short, but we're pure and simple though with a good storyline, so a listener can understand. Kinda reminds me of how songs we're written by songwriters in the 2 or3 minute time frame, back in the day. Don | ||
Rick (bassik4) 1-Arriviste Username: bassik4 Post Number: 2 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 151.199.226.148 |
Talk about a short and funky tune, how about James Brown's "I got the Feelin'? Maceo was about to put his thing ALL the way down and then it cuts off. That's unusual for your typical James Brown standard... | ||
kevin quinn (kevin_quinn) 2-Debutant Username: kevin_quinn Post Number: 12 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 151.197.23.31 |
Lady Mystique: Maybe future album pressings had "I Wanna Be Where You Are" on the album jacket. My vinyl copy that I bought soon after the album was released in '76 didn't have it listed on the outside jacket. Thanks for checking, any info is appreciated. Manny: I agree, the Incognito "Beneath the Surface" CD is my favorite and I think it's their best work. Ever cut is a killer. "Solar Fire" is way too short. My next two Incognito favorites are "100% And Rising" and "No Time Like The Future." I didn't care for their latest one from last year as much. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 6-Zenith Username: ladymystique Post Number: 430 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.224.119.116 |
Kevin quinn...sorry I took so long! The copy I have has the song on the back cover. That's interesting that yours don't have it...maybe they were still deciding on keeping the track on the album? | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 6-Zenith Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 804 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.236.51.238 |
I have a song caled "A minute of your time". Guess how long that one is, eh? | ||
Manny (manny) 5-Doyen Username: manny Post Number: 262 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.52.152 |
Hi, soulful family! Hello, Kevin Quinn I'm glad because (at minimum) here in SDF we are four Incognito's lovers by now: Kevin Goings, Handsome, You and me! They got Soul! I'm in love specially with "Jacob's Lader" from the first time i heard it, what dramatic feel! I have more "songs" favorites than "albums" but, I agree that the most solid is "Beneath The Surface". I heard they live in the Jazz Festival of Canary Islands (Spain) the summer of 2003 in the National Radio. They played some sides of their "Live Stranger Than Fiction" and also "Fearless". Juicefree talks abut interludes! The interludes are short because are interludes (is not a joke, smile, friend!) Anyway, you have reason, "Brazilian Interlude" by EW & F is so short. And also MFSB interlude in the "Philadelphia Freedom" LP and Zack's Fanfare. Also a fanfare is short, because is a fanfare, if was long, don't were a fanfare... Better i let it, because you can tought i'm not fine today (when in reality, is true, i'm not fine today, friends). ;-) :-) :-) Peace & Soul Food | ||
Angela McCullough (bigsexee) 1-Arriviste Username: bigsexee Post Number: 2 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.139 |
Linda Jones Hynotized..........2 minutes and 38 seconds. | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 231 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
Welcome to SD, Angela!! | ||
Kev-Lo (7273747576) 4-Laureate Username: 7273747576 Post Number: 160 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.231.234.83 |
Hi this is Kev-Lo how about So Much In Love- Tymes Heart Full Of Love- The Invincibles Get It From The Bottom- The Steelers I'm So Glad- Frankie And Dreams Abscent Minded Lover- Kim Weston Hi Charise how are you today,Do you remember these soul classics Hi Angela how are you and welcome to this great forum it great to have you here | ||
Kdubya (paladin) 4-Laureate Username: paladin Post Number: 134 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 206.185.64.23 |
Talking about my Baby/Impressions (approx 2:19) Save me/Smokey & Miracles (approx 2:22) Kdubya | ||
Gil (gil) 3-Pundit Username: gil Post Number: 47 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 192.44.136.113 |
"I'll Try Something New" by Smokey and the Miracles. I don't exactly know how long it is, but I know it can't too much longer than 2:00...which isn't long enough!! | ||
kevin quinn (kevin_quinn) 2-Debutant Username: kevin_quinn Post Number: 13 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 151.197.44.4 |
Lady Mystique: I guess I have an unusual pressing of the "I Want You" jacket. You might be right, maybe Motown was rushing to put it out and wasn't sure if the cut was going to make the album. I think David Ritz might have mentioned it in his "Divided Soul" book but it's been a long time since I read it. Thanks for the info. Manny: New Incognito CD coming out soon according to their website. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 6-Zenith Username: ladymystique Post Number: 437 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 204.186.253.89 |
kevin quinn...it has been a while since I read the book too. | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 6-Zenith Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 1495 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Welcome aboard Angela! It's good to have you on board Yes Manny my friend. You are 100% correct! I would have loved to see these songs extended though. I wonder what direction they would have taken those fanfare & interludes. I bet they would've been great!! | ||
Manny (manny) 5-Doyen Username: manny Post Number: 273 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.52.190 |
Another short song is Intruder's cover of "Sad Girl". The vocals and the vibes are so good and so brief...! And perhaps the most short is "Short Shorts" by Salsoul Orchestra (this is a joke, friends). I can imagine the girls who speack and sang chorus dressed with sexy short shorts, ... mmmmh...!! Hey, Juyce, you're 200% right also, brother! If MFSB have had the chance to made a live jam session improvissing with Zach's Fanfare...! This fanfare have a sentimental aditional value for me. When Catalonian TV was born, I saw everyday at the dinner hour and a Catalonian TV program of gastronomy called "T�pies Variades", conducted by Pere T�pies, started with this same person walkin a beach long around dressed and dinning around many girls in bikini and at high speed image (as a Harold Lloyd's film). The "jingle" presentation was ZACK'S FANFARE, and resulted very apropiate. Peace & Funny |
