Walkin' After Midnight / Hidin' Out

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Release Date: 1957-04-08

Label: 4 Star Records

OK - so it's NOT really Calvin Coolidge, but the point is to get some attention for this single and to put it out under a guy's name for other country singers. This is a rarely seen single pressed up by Four Star Sales, who held the publishing to these two songs. They were hoping to double their royalties by tempting a male singer to do a version of the Patsy Cline tune. What better way than to let them hear it as a guy would sound like singing it. So here they've taken the master tape and slowed it down just enough to make it seem like it is a guy's voice - then press up the record with that version. This is the same recording as the hit song, but to get it to play correctly you'd have to spin it up at about 60 rpm. This copy has somebody marking it as April 8, 1957, which is about 4 weeks after the hit. Never sold to the public, and barely even sent to radio, this record is quite a musical unicorn.

Also - note that they've changed out the flipside to the 1955 recording "Hidin' Out" which was Patsy's first single back when she was on Coral.

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