Sunlight - Sometimes A Woman / Colors Of Love (1970) [Mono Single]

Sunlight - "Sometimes A Woman" b/w "Colors Of Love"

Original 1970 Mono 45 RPM Single

Windi Records W-1001 / W-1002

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Okay, one more Sunlight rarity for those who are interested. After learning that the mix of "David" on the private Entra 45 here was the same as on the Creation Of Sunlight LP, I'd assumed that I'd heard it all. It turns out, however, that this single has a few interesting alternate mono mixes. Both of these mixes make their digital debut here and weren't even on YouTube till they reached the barking poodle. 

Major thanks to Arf! Arf! Records for lending out this 45 from his personal collection!

I believe this to be the very first release on Windi Records, actually released before the LP: more specifically, the earlier purple label design is the earliest, without the intricate Windi logo as seen here (and as applied on the label's later releases). This second label design (pictured above) must've come out either contemporaneously with or after the album release. The two variants are likely to contain the exact same audio material, but this has not yet been confirmed. 

After a preliminary listening, the most obvious edit that appeared to me was a significantly truncated solo section in "Colors Of Love," cutting nearly a minute-and-a-half off the song length; otherwise, I couldn't hear any differences. At first I figured that "Sometimes A Woman" was a stereo fold-down, but I discovered after closer listening that the very first chorus section doesn't have horn overdubs like the stereo album version, so this certainly must be an alternate mix. Much like the Entra 45, the mastering here is much darker than on the LP with more bass / less treble, which sounds quite nice actually, addressing in part the horrible sibilance in the stereo album version. 

Track listing:
1) "Sometimes A Woman" -- 3:21
2) "Colors Of Love" -- 4:45

Equipment Lineage:

– Audio-Technica VMN40ML stylus on AT150MLx dual moving-magnet cartridge

– Audio-Technica AT-LP1240-USB direct drive professional turntable (internal stock preamp/ADC removed)

– Pro-Ject Phono Box S2 Ultra preamp with dedicated Zero Zone linear power supply

– Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 MkII (96kHz / 24bit)

– Adobe Audition CC 2020 (recording)

– iZotope RX 7 audio editor (manual declicking, EQ subtraction, additional adjustments)

– Audacity 2.3.3 (fades between tracks, split tracks)

– Foobar2000 v1.5.1 (tagging, dynamic range analysis)

The A-side is also on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLw6aRQUlS0

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