Re: WERE MOST DISCO RECORDS TOO LONG?

Originally Written by
PierreConstantin
The US edit with 8:50 is much better -and besides it has some instrumental parts not on the 16:50 lp version!
Good call. HCTSA in its edited 8:50 version was long enough to satisfy. I thought the extended 12" of Donna Summer's "Walk Away" could've been extended a minute from its original 4:29 LP length to include the "I'm gonna get over you" lines and that's it. One thing that is very interesting about Donna's 12"s is that I don't think they were all that great. The only time Casablanca scored a home run with a Donna 12" was the slightly extended "Hot Stuff/Bad Girls" medley and the 7:33 promo 12" of "On The Radio", which were superb. "Dim All The Lights" was an abomination as a 7:12 12" (loops of the first two minutes of a song to stretch it out to over seven or more minutes never works). I even think "I Feel Love" at 8:10 was a bit too long and repetitive. The 5:55 LP version was just right.
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