On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 09:04 PM, Richard Huggins wrote:
Congrats to Noel and Doug:
"MacArthur Park"
Wow, I don't think I've ever heard the Richard Harris (original) version. The only one I'm familiar with is the Donna Summer cover version from the 1970's -- which is the one that actually gets played on the radio, since it's under four minutes
But, just for shits and giggles, I thought I'd look up the various songs you guys mentioned:
"MacArthur Park" -- original version not available. Covers by Donna Summer, Percy Faith, Liza Minelli, Andy Williams, the Four Tops, Jerry Vale, and the infamous 10-minute version by Maynard Ferguson -- all available for $0.99 download.
"Hey Jude" -- original version not available (for what should be obvious reasons, if you've followed this thread at all). Covers by Wilson Pickett, Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops, Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, others... all under 7 minutes, so all available for $0.99 download.
"Alice's Restaurant" -- not available at all. Who owns the rights to this song, I wonder?
"Light My Fire" -- original version clocks in at 7:08 (so Richard, "Light My Fire" is an equally good answer to your question). Available for $0.99 download. Live version is 11:30 -- also available for $0.99 download. Mercifully shorter versions by Stevie Wonder, Pillar and Etta James also available.
"Stairway to Heaven" -- original version not available. No Led Zeppelin songs are albums at all, in fact. Evidently the surviving band members have not signed on to the iTMS yet. [A handful of big artists, like Radiohead, still refuse to license their songs for purchase online. Which is kind of silly, if you ask me, because Radiohead are by far one of the most-frequently downloaded bands on the various illegal file sharing services. Plus their new record popped up on Kazaa and Gnutella months before it was even released. Since lots of people are going to download their music anyway, they might as well allow the option of doing it legitimately. IMO.] Anyway, there are cover versions of this seventies FM radio staple by Ghostface Killah, Neil Sedaka, the O'Jays, Pat Boone, and Stanley Joradan (how's *that* for a killer supergroup?), but none of them clock more than 7:00 and thus all of them are available for individual download.
American Pie -- this song was released in 1971, which disqualifies it from Richard's little quiz. The original version by Don McLean (clocking in at 8:36) is *not* available for individual download. You have to buy the entire album if you want the original "American Pie" -- which I suspect is the only reason 99% of people ever bought _American Pie_ (the album) in the first place. Plus, the album itself sells for $11.99, not $9.99. I forget who owns the rights to this record -- EMI I think -- but they are obviously still trying to milk the title track for all it's worth. Covers available by The Kings Singers and Mott the Hoople, both clocking in under seven minutes, both individually downloadable.
I also did a search for some other bands known for their, uh, "extended works":
Pink Floyd have fifteen 7+ minute songs on the iTMS, of which nine are individually downloadable.
The Grateful Dead have only one album on the iTMS (_Dylan and the Dead_), and none of the songs are more than seven minutes long.
Genesis have twenty-one 7+ minute songs on the iTMS, of which nineteen are individually downloadable.
Yes have eighteen 7+ minute songs on the iTMS, and *all* of them are individually downloadable. Hurray for Yes! (Never thought I'd write those words... )
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer have no songs on the iTMS.
King Crimson have only one album on the iTMS (from 2002), and none of the songs are more than seven minutes long. (Perhaps they're slipping in their old age.)
Electric Light Orchestra have seven 7+ minute songs on the iTMS (that's counting two different versions of "Kuiama"), and all of them are individually downloadable.
Rush have nineteen 7+ minute songs on the iTMS, of which thirteen are individually downloadable.
So basically, it looks like there's a veritable prog rock bonanza on the iTunes Music Store. Go nuts! At 0.23571429 cents per second (or less), prog rock is the most cost-effective way to fill up your hard drive with purchased MP4's!
- Darcy
(Actually, I'm curious whether those two 32+ minute Miles Davis tracks from "Get Up With It" are the longest $0.99 tracks available on the iTMS. If anyone runs into anything longer, be sure to let me know.)
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