Cold Endings (Songs that faded out but have since been released with a Cold Ending)

Michael's message about the cold ending version of "The Letter" by the Box Tops makes me wonder how many songs are out there that originally faded but have since been released with a cold ending.

I can think of 3 others:

Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf - Vintage Music Vol 9
Cold Sweat - James Brown - CD of JB
The Wanderer - Dion - History of Rock Vol 10

Are there any more out there?

mud-

 

Wasn't "Mystery Dance" by Elvis Costello given a cold ending on the Rykodisc reissue?

 

Laugh Laugh - Beau Brummels on Rhino comp.

 

Actually, Cold Sweat always ended with a cold ending, if you count Pt.2 on the flipside of the 45...

James Brown's "Superbad" ends cold now. It appears on a JB compilation containing several remixes and extended versions. I can't recall the name of the CD and i'm too lazy to look right now...

 

Bob Dylan's I'll Be Your Baby Tonight on the error version of Biograph.

 

Monkees: Valleri
Ricky Nelson: Travelin' Man
Rick Nelson: For You
Grass Roots: Let's Live For Today
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues
Traffic: Paper Sun
Buchanan Brothers: Medicine Man

Just a few for starters...

ED

 

If I remember correctly, I believe the ending to What is Life by George Harrison can now be heard on the ATMP remaster.

 

I'll also add that the remix of James Brown's "(Say It Loud) I'm Black And I'm Proud" now ends cold.

 

Hi ED, which cds are these on? We need details ya know.

mud-

 

I can think of several "Berlin School" tracks that fall into this category...

Three Klaus Schulze tracks:
"Sense" -- full length version is over 45 minutes long, original LP has only 32 of that
"Georg Trakl" -- from less than five minutes on the album to more than 25 minutes on one of the box sets
"The Looper Isn't A Hooker" (they ran out of space when mastering the LP, so they just faded it out!)

And Manuel Göttsching's classic 60-minute jam "E2-E4" only became available in its unabridged form when the CD came out. The original LP fades out about halfway in, and cuts about 10 minutes out.

 

The cold ending Monkees "Valleri" is on Rhino's Nuggets Volume One (the old one, not the one that came out in conjunction with the Nuggets box set. The Beau Brummels "Laugh Laugh" cold ending version was on this one as well), and the Listen To The Band Monkees box set. It was also on Arista's Then And Now...The Best Of The Monkees if I remember correctly.

 

The Who's "Glow Girl" faded out on the original O&S LP, while it comes to a full ending on the remixes.

 

I believe another is Hey Joe on the Byrds box set.

Brian

 

Yep - count-off as well.

 

Quite right, Fr. Mackenzie. Always has bugged me. -- But perhaps it only faded on the Columbia (USA) LP? Perhaps the UK version always had the cold cut?

 

Aerosmith - Last Child (Pandora's Box)

 

Ed Bishop started this thread on the extended "Piece of My Heart" from "Cheap Thrills" just recently: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10253&highlight=cheap+thrills

 

Hi Steve, would these be the "Collector's Series" or just any individual artist's cds that were remixed?

I always wondered what happened when the music faded.

mud-

 

On Van Halen's "Women And Children First," there's an untitled instrumental that is buried after the last song, "In A Simple Rhyme." On the album, it faded out, but on both the original and remastered CDs, it has an ending.

 

Yep, Mud, most of those funny bunnies are on the EMI LEGENDARY MASTERS SERIES and several on CAP COLLECTORS; as Steve notes, Mr. Furmanek loved letting those tapes run, and run, and run...with some intro studio talk that, over time, will bug the hell out of you. I'm pretty sure the Gary Lewis, Jan & Dean, Cher, Bobby Vee, etc., have at least one of those on each; others in the series, too, no doubt.

As for my little contribution, well....good to see you're lively and inquisitive despite that soup diet you've been on for so long...

Here goes:

Travelin' Man: Just about any CD out there; the 45 faded out(though you can hear the end if you're 45's not too noisy)
For You: Rick's Time-Life CD
Summertime Blues: Most CD's, including, I think, his LEGENDARY MASTERS disc, UK box set, other sources; first found on vinyl many moons ago.
Paper Sun: THE ISLAND STORY, TRAFFIC CONTROL[a promo CD]and most other comps; the ending of the unedited version was issued on the US MR. FANTASY/HEAVEN IS IN YOUR MIND Lp as "We're A Fade, You Missed This."
However, the remaster of MR. FANTASY[US edition]I think restores "Paper" to its 45 fade and the end of the master take to the end of the album, as originally issued here(the UK Lp didn't include "Paper Sun" and had other cuts, too).
Medicine Man: One of Bartley's comps; originally on Cashman & West's THE AM-FM Blues on Razor & Tie(remastered by another fellow who lets the tapes run now and then...hee hee).

"Let's Live For Today" began as a mono 45, but for the stereo Lp, they did some fooling around, panning the lead vocal during the verses back and forth. On one of the VINTAGE MUSIC volumes, somebody found or remixed a track that loses the panning and more accurately reflects the 45 version, except it fades some 20 secs or so later. This same mix turned up on a Time-Life CLASSIC ROCK disc, but faded around the 2:45 45/Lp length.
Otherwise, I haven't heard that version anywhere else, IIRC.

Happy now?

ED

 

Yep.

mud-

 

Is there a general preference for hard ends vs. fades? Fades make me think musicians don’t know how to end a song, although a hard end could also be the result of an edit.