Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride - 45 RPM Original Mono Mix & Lead Vocal - SHORT Version
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Original ABC Dunhill Records #4161
Debut 10/5/1968 and peaked at #3 for ONE week on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
This is the original SHORT version with the original hit version lead vocal found only on the 45 RPM vinyl record.
All stereo versions include a different take of the lead vocal.
ABC Dunhhill records in the mid 1970's - in order to save storage space, destroyed all the mono masters, and original multitrack recordings, including this record. So the only way to hear the original is from the original 45 RPM record - like this one!
This info is courtesy of Wikipedia:
"The single version differs noticeably from the album version with a different vocal take by Kay used for the first verse of the song and differing instrumental balances. The single version is also much shorter than the album version, with a running time of 2 minutes and 55 seconds (the album version is 4 minutes and 25 seconds long)."
This is the version played on the radio that made this a hit!
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Probably one of the worst business decisions ever made in the history of the entertainment industry was when the suits at ABC/Dunhill had the original studio master tapes tossed into the garbage to save money on storage costs in the early 70's. That means Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, The Grassroots, Mamas and the Papas original masters are gone for good. This is the version that everyone heard on AM radio back in the day. The album version is lifeless compared to this. Note the lyrics "Flies far, goes near" lyrics are not on the album version.
Nor is "I love to Dre-AMM"(notes caps,please)"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"(note third yeah,again, not on the LP, only on single.I have the single from 10/5/68, with the REAL version!)
teh1990dude , that makes me almost want to cry! I absolutely LOVE the Grassroots, never get enough. Now I fear there will not be much more shared. 😟😟
27 years old thanks for the lesson!
the album version is goes far flies near, don't see that much of a fuss as the album version is great too.
At least this version is still available on the ABC/Dunhill Singles Collection, even if the masters are gone.
This is the real version.
The version that was on all the jukeboxes back in the day. I actually liked this version better than the album version. Had more of a kick ass to it than the other.
***** April Fools..yeah.. This is NO edit (as DGolus has said) and is most likely on the single recorded as was, not even from the mono recording edited, making the LP stereo version the longer one that just immediately for reissues and radio got edited. This was just rerecorded or recorded before the "Steppenwolf the Second" L:P at the length on disc, 2:55. (Just like I read that the Doors were asked to do on Elektra in 1967 for "Light My Fire"'s mono single before editing the mono LP tape..:))
Randy McTurnan You're right. Way hot production.
+ray okoa Hell, I wore my copy out. Magic Carpet Ride is best at above 90 db hehe!
I prefer the way he sings 'I like to dream' at the start of this song more than the other versions. When he goes a little higher on the word 'dream' it gives the song more of a kick start.
So fo I
Hard to imagine the mentality of record company executives to even consider destroying "masters" of any song/artist. Especially classics like this!
I love this single version so much more than the album version..
Interesting vocal mix here.
* Magic Carpet Ride (1968)
Sung by Steppenwolf
♩♪ ♬ (Instrumental) ♩♪ ♬
I like to dream
Yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here
Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found
Cool to hear the original version that was played on the radio back then, yeah
+Steve Pell Yeah!Neat.. I have this as well. I believe that this was just a short recording just for the single as mentioned without being a separate longer recording edited, as WAS the case for Three Dog Night and some other Dunhill artists. Apparently both Magic Carpet RIde and Born to be Wild in their specific single takes/recordings were not even previously longer in those but just as recorded (like Tommy James/Shondell's Crimson and Clover over on Roulette, which wound up being a sister reissue with the Dunhill acts on ABC/Dunhill's Goldies series of the 1970s)
This wolf KICKS ASS!
Never knew an alternate vocal take was used on the original single mix! A shame the powers that be at ABC/Dunhill made the boneheaded decision to junk their mono masters.
ALL other versions FAIL in comparison to this MASTERPIECE 👍
Sounds brilliant.i love this 👍🏻💯
~ The original black label Dunhill mono record (here) inspired Madonna's hit Ray Of Light 1997-1998. A record's length in the sixties often determined whether it would get played on the radio. The longer (L.P.) versions were trimmed for a single release. Iron Butterfly, Chambers Brothers, Wilson Pickett, Steppenwolf, the Doors. Many times stereo recordings were not original recordings but remixed from mono, and sound awful. The single versions are the ones everyone remembers from the radio obviously. What sounds best is like what is right here: the original single versions in mono - thank you. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
Remixed from mono? Say what?
Not only did ABC toss their own mono masters and multi-track tapes, but also when they bought Dot/Paramount, most of those went in the trash. Not just the obscure stuff, but also the hits. First-generation tapes, with production notes and info. When MCA bought ABC, there was another round of 'housecleaning'. This was common practice in the music business.
There were some early recordings by many famous artists that will never be heard again.
And that was before the 2008 fire on the Universal lot that wiped out even more irreplaceable masters.
You CAN get this on I-Tunes and on CD. (Released 2015) If the original masters of the MONO singles were destroyed, then I'm curious as to the source material used for the release of the ABC-Dunhill Singles Collection. In listening to Magic Carpet Ride, the quality is not too good.
This is great!!! Keep on playing those mono 45's! The vocals sound so different; possibly more punch...super fantastic! Rocked me at ten and now at 65.
Great song coming out almost 56 years back in time
Their second biggest hit. Peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 the week ending November 30, 1968.
My favorite mix of one of my favorite tunes. Very cool.
This 45 is a completely different recording from the LP version. Many early Steppenwolf singles were different recordings from their album version. Same for Three Dog Night - also a Dunhill Records artist. It is not the LP version shortened, and re-mixed. The hot version of this Magic Carpet Ride video can only be found on an original, black label Dunhill 45, as seen here. ABC/MCA greatest hits re-issue 45s from the 1970s-80s feature the LP version edited down in length. Don't buy any of them, you will be disappointed. Seek the original 45 for all Steppenwolf or Three Dog Night singles.
Complete true..I have the single depicted above (original black Dunhill ABC label) and the original "Born to be Wild"(same letter) and most of my Three Dog Night singles ("One","Mama Told Me (Not To Come)","Liar","Old Fashioned Love Song") are the ORIGINAL releases (and on the same label Grassroots's "Sooner or Later").
Thanks. I never heard John Kay's vocals in this version of the song. I had all of Steppenwolf's albums so this is a real treat.
Two things : Great upload, I love this version ! And that is one of the nicest turntables I have ever seen....
Izzy love's rock 🎸 💘 Enjoy 1968.
Super great! Sleeves and all--I've saved my 45s as well. So friggin' cool, and your turntable FAB! My first concert was Steppenwolf! Thanks,
I was 17 years old and bought this Album ,and this was my favorite song.
Love love love this song. Close my eyes and go back
This take so much better and completely different from the album and CD versions. However, it is included in the now out of print Dick Bartley Presents On The Radio CD series (which most probably transferred it from the original vinyl 45, since the ABC/Dunhill master was lost).
Reached #1 on the KHJ Boss 30 in late 1968 and played on K-Earth 101's "Number One Music Weekend" over Labor Day. They played the album version for their special.
Groovy!
Great Sound !! Doesn't get much better than that
The correct version. Nice to hear it out here. Having the 45 myself this is the version I am used to. "Born To Be Wild" is also much better on 45, it actually rocks out with a loud guitar unlike the horrible stereo version. Thanks for posting this one.
i have never heard this version on the radio
I wish I could get on a Magic Carpet Ride with Steppenwolf John Kay
Remember The album format hadn't began yet.
Singles were being played.
I grew up listening to FM radio because it
played longer album tracks.
I grew up in St.Petersburg FL we had a station called 98 Rock your album station and they played a whole side of an album at one time back in the 70s
Yes!, KNAC 105.5 Long Beach, was great at that, Baddest Station Anywhere!
my first 45!.. TANX WABCRADIO77! Wooooooooo!:D*
Thank you for posting this in this format. The 45s I have are in no way in the same condition as these but I have some of them and I'll never let them go. Always brings me back to my teens. I only saw Vietnam War as a teen on tv but the airplay of these songs on the radio were always in our family car or in the house on the record player. Brings back great times. Thanks again.
Amazing work
This is the authentic 45 version of this song. The reissued version on MCA has a shortened stereo version of the LP cut, which is a different mix.
Its not a different mix. Its a completely separate recording. Both Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night, often did separate recordings for singles and albums.
DGolus Their label also was a major factor, Dunhill Records. It's interesting. At the same time, Columbia Records artists The Chambers Brothers had a major hit with "The Time Has Come Today", itself a remake of a 1966 recording, and that 1968 single was in different edits and the album version remake longer. The 1966 original of Time has Come was a shorter different recording, same for two DIFFERENT album versions on Sussex of Wadsworth Mansion's Sweet Mary, and THAT single had two singles----a faded and slightly longer cold ending, and this was BEFORE the LP. You'll notice at least ONE of the Columbia Blood Sweat, and Tears 1969 top ten trilogy, the only one written by lead David Clayton-Thomas, "Spinning Wheel" is at least in PART a different vocal as well (and maybe the first of the other three, "You've made me so Very Happy", though the only different in the final of those 1969 BS&T songs, "And When I Die", only differs in having the odd orchestral parts for the LP.)
@@DGolus- The instrumental backing on this is the same, it's the *vocal take* that's different from the LP. Believe me, I've heard both.
The CD "On The Radio - Volume One", Varese Sarabande VSD-5846, 1997, track 13 has this mono mix!
You can also find all of Steppenwolf's mono single mixes on this 2-CD set! www.amazon.com/ABC-Dunhill-Singles-Collection/dp/B00ZB7Q9XO/ref=sr_1_15?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1519040213&sr=1-15&keywords=Steppenwolf
A little odd info: On the Music Choice Solid Gold Oldies channel, the song begins right at the vocal. It doesn't have the instrumental open like the version played on the Classic Rock channel. And the Classic Rock channel has the full version.
Yeh, sounds great
Totaly Awesome, the real deal. thankyou bro ,,,,,live long and prosper.......
such a much better and " Ballsier" version then the Album Cut, this is the version i remember AM radio playing Non stop when i was a kid thanks for posting it Spence :)
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really lovin this!!!
Where`s WABC!!! Chime after this? It still automatically goes off in my head after certain records 45 plus years later. I`ll be Ok, though.LOL
The opening vocal on this was slightly different and also better than the full length, psychedelic version. I heard that ABC/Dunhill did not save a lot of the mixed down masters that were made specifically for AM Top 40 radio. This is one of the lost ones (many Three Dog Nights as well, e.g., Liar).
This is a different recording entirely of the song. It is NOT the LP version, shortened and remixed. This was an ABC/Dunhill practice. Both Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night, in particular, often recorded two different versions of a song intended for a single - one for the single (to be in mono), the other for the LP (to be in stereo). In all cases, IMO, the single versions are superior, in every way, to the LP counterpart.
I like the mix, however it is very low-fi compared to the LP version... I guess they were aiming for AM radio and considered all high end info above 10K negligible...
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I like this version better too. Also, on the beginning of this presentation, the loud humming noise in this guys stereo sounds like he has a grounding connection between the turntable and the receiver. My 43 year old RCA console stereo doesn't do that, it sounds dynamite!
Thx.u... Wonderful time
Did they ever release this version on any of their records?
I like the album version of "Time Has Come Today"
By The Chambers Brothers .
Me,too, in fact that's the best (al 11 minutes OF it. Best. version. EVER.)
AWESOME ,the real deal, thank you....Peace.....
thanks for doing this I am a subscriber
Hey, I'll also add that it seems like just as more and more ALBUM versions turn up, that more and more ARTISTS SEEM to prefer the ALBUM versions, thus THESE absences:
All Eagles 45's
David Bowie's REAL single of "Fame" (NOT the 4 minute long version)
The ORIGINAL "Dream On" Aerosmith single (sorry, Steve and co., all due respect forthcoming, I don't remember "where it comes, where it goes, no body knows" crap (again,sorry) between verses in the original 1973 and 1975 single. Still enjoy the much longer LP version all the same.
organ is phased in certain passages
and yet.... John Kay himself claims that when this single was produced, they accidentally issued it with the wrong vocal take. So what everybody in the world remembers as the "right" one, the man himself prefers the album take.
Tells you what artists know . . .
was SOOKIE SOOKIE released as a single and also who originally did SOOKIE SOOKIE? also Bon Scott also did SOOKIE SOOKIE
+MichaelHansenFUN that was the B side of this single.
+kwd kwd is it a grant green cover? he has a tune called sookie sookie, could be a steppenwolf cover bizarrely
Don Covay co-wrote "Sookie Sookie" with Stax's Steve Cropper, and apparently recorded it prior to this at Atlantic.
Last night I hold a lettuce left and I wish I could say that when the thing would answer me to come took it away from me
11 dislikes from other people with vinyl videos 😭
Garage rock
The real McCoy!
there is supposed to be a stereo 45 rpm
FAR OUT!!
A lousy candles all I found
mono > stereo
turntable sounds slow
Nope. This is the correct speed.
the album version worked for me