Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4 - 45 RPM Original Mono Mix SHORT Version
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2012
- Original Columbia Records #45194
Debut 7/25/1969
Peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart
This original mono mix features the drums mixed right up front, where as the stereo mix has the drums well in the background and not as prominent.
This is also the SHORT version clocking in at 2:52 vs. 4:49 for the commonly heard stereo LP version.
Here is a comment made to an earlier post of this same record that I had posted by subscriber "Home Of The Good Guys":
"I've never seen a variant of the Columbia label before. This started around early to mid 1971 where they switched the 60's Columbia design to a short lived rotating logo and then the wallpaper Columbia logo only for 45's. By 1972, they switched to a gray Columbia label for 45's and kept it until early 1973 where they switched once again to a familiar Pac-Man style Columbia logo for 45's and it remained until the 1990's."
This is the original mono mix as heard when this was a huge hit on AM Top 40 radio on stations like WABC New York.
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this song is imprinted on my brain since the 70s. every note, every beat....................
Peaked at # 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, the week ending September 12, 1970. It was their 2nd top 10 single.
Glad that you have this channel. These are the songs that I heard exactly the way that they were played on the radio; especially at Famous 56, WFIL, here in Philadelphia. Nowadays, they have ruined these great recordings with :"remastered" tapes. that is not the way I heard this music on the radio when I too was growing up during the 60's and 70's. Thank you so much for preserving this music: the way that it was meant to be played.
I'll agree that some of the remastered edits leave something to be desired. At teh same time, some of those old single edits ALSO left something to be desired as I feel they could've been edited better.
The opening several seconds of this song was used as the theme music on the flagship station during the 1971 major league season of the Washington Senators baseball radio network--WWDC 1260 AM and 101.1 FM. The team would leave D.C. for Arlington, Tex. in 1972 and baseball wouldn't return back to D.C. until the Montreal Expos team moved into D.C. in 2005.
~ This 1970 + Make Me Smile 1970 + Free 1971 + Lowdown 1971 + I'm A Man 1971 + Street Player 1979: my favourite 7" dance jams by CTA! Thank you for posting this mono fave mix. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
This was a big hit at my high school back in the 70s
The wonderful swell of the Chicago horns...
TERRY KATH IS AWESOME WE MISS YOU!!!
I recall you posted this one sometime ago.
"25 Or 6 To 4" was released as a single 6/30/70. The long version was released on the Chicago II album, 1/26/70.
I like the way it slows
down at the end.....
The original single was always the best version of this great song !!!!
How can that be? The album version has more verses.
@@bramleydragon Ever heard of Quality before Quantity 😎
@@william_marshal It's exactly the same recording. No loss of quality at all.
@@bramleydragon How can that be? The album version has more verses.
@@william_marshal Have you never heard of editing? It's the same recording only shortened for use as a single.
it debut during the Summer of 1970.
Yeah, I remember that too
You can’t go wrong with early Chicago!!
Sure is! It's known as the Stanton Long Hair brush.
Cleans the grooves before the needle plays them.
One of the best guitar solos I have ever heard! I appreciate the drums being ''up front", yet I wish it could have been done without cutting into the wonderful finger gymnastics of the guitar player. Either way thanks for uploading!
Chicago, initially were not a pop band. Many of their songs were 4-5 minutes and up, and when they played them live, they were improvised and often even longer. The "hit conscious" am radio market of the day, as well as executives at Columbia Records, were responsible for hacking up this wonderful music to make it "radio friendly." The comparatively short "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is," thankfully did not suffer that fate.
Great one!! I loved the Mystery Spot too when I was little in upstate NY!!
I've listened to this song on 103.9 K-Rock in Corner Brook, NL...and it was THIS version instead of the longer album version that was played on that station! When I listened to this song on another Newfoundland radio station (OZ FM) many years ago, they played THIS EXACT SAME version as well!
Shane Spencer hi from St. John’s!
WABCRADIO77 hasn't posted in a long time, but he has a great classic single collection on vinyl. I enjoy his videos a lot. If I'm gonna watch a turntable spin this is how to do it.
This is the version I remember, 1970 (ish) we had the single but I thought it was on the CBS label, old age creeping in,,,,,brilliant arrangements by the way,,,,
Holy crap this is amazing on lp
2021 !!
....you're RIGHT.. the RADIO is the BEST way to listen to this fabulous song/track, can't beat the Original version, but what does it all MEAN ...?????
LOVE WABC
It has carbon fiber bristles to dissipate static too
...tell you what, let's play it AGAIN to see if we can find out.......
0:22 actual song starts
I notice that your copy is the "red-on-red" label pressing. I have the solid red label with the "Columbia" logo in white letters around the perimeter of the label. Not sure if Columbia used both label designs simultaneously 1970 or if the solid red label was used first and the "red-on-red" came later. I do know that Columbia went through a few label design changes after the solid red label with black print (solid red with white "Columbia" logo around label perimeter in 1970, "red-on-red" in '70/'71 and gray in '72) before settling with the orange label in 1973.
Between roughly 1970 to 1972, there were many variations of the Columbia label, before finally going with the "Packman" style orange label in early 1973.. That style remained the same all the way into the 1980's. The solid red label was used from roughly late 1964 to about 1970.
+jim02026 The promo 45 I have is the white label similar to the design they were using in the latter half of the 60's into 1970.
jim02026 This was where Columbia went into some major changes and redesigns. By 1970, it was red-on-red and then to red-on-white with the words "Columbia" around the perimeters which was a prototype of the red-on-red or red-on-orange Columbia perimeters design used on all LP's right up until the early 1990's, By 1971, they used the same red-on-red and then went to a gray label with the "Columbia" name which was used by early 1973 where it was changed to a "Pac-Man" style design for the 45''s right up until the 1990's.
0:17
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...just checking....
just, like, 40x better than CD/mp3 cuts I've heard, excepting a muddy bass guitar here, mastered for those drums I guess.
I never really LISTENED to this song before, its a rreal neck breaker. Like literally my neck hurts. So now I have to find a non styrene import original mix on vinyl. I was able to hear the cleaner mix, and youre right, the remix is not as good.