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dacs2000
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Could somebody please confirm my thoughts on this.
This is the original 1983 album version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSlSaGcc0QM
This is the original 1987 album version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg
This is the 1987 US remix and 1987 international
single mix.
This was the version I heard when hearing this for the
first time in December 1987.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfyNI0GAZ-A
A heads up on this would be appreciated. :)
Cheers from down under.
Mark
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Welcome to the board, Mark!
The link for the first video doesn't work in the US, apparently.
The non-hit original 1982 version from the Saints And Sinners album runs about 5:09.
The 1987 LP version runs about 4:35. The video you linked to is correct.
The 1987 45 version runs about 3:55. The video you linked to is also correct.
Hope that helps!
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This was a rare case where the LP version was the "hit"
version - at least in NY it sure was - and the 45 was
strange to me. The LP and 45 are completely different
recordings.
After it hit big, I bought the 45 and was like "HUH???"
.. this isn't anything like what I hear on every radio
station!
In fact the only time I EVER heard the 45 version was on
my 45 and the Casey Kasem countdown.
Even years later on "Hot AC" stations, LP is all I ever
heard. This surprised me because the LP has a harder edge
to it.
Don't get me wrong, I like the 45 version with its "pop"
feel but if anyone asked me which was the hit - I'd say
LP version.
I assume this wasn't the case in every market?
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Mark,
I like you heard the LP version not the 45. For the longest time I thought that was the hit version. I was in NYC growing up so I can only confirm what you were saying. Massive airplay back then.
Isnt the LP version being played on the Geico commercial these days? Just noticed that too.
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In Tulsa I know for a fact the "Rock 40" station I worked at only and always played the "hit" version. I think the straight top 40 in town did the same as I don't ever remember hearing the LP version until years later on a classic rock station.
It sounds like it really depended on the market as to which was the "hit" version.
(One Geico ad uses the LP version; all the others start late enough into the song that it's impossible to tell but you have to assume LP version based on the first commercial.)
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Thanx guys for confirming my thoughts, yes, it sounds
like this was a song that had a few versions that were
going around the woods.
I first heard this track at a christmas camp down the
south Coast of NSW in December 1987. The last night
we hired a hall, somewhere in Jervis Bay for
celebrating the occasion of what we done on the camp,
and everybody bought in tapes. One kid bought a mix-
cassette, he obviously came from Inverell as there was
a number of songs recorded from his local radio
station, 1188 2NZ. It was the 45 version; immediate
rock intro. Around the same time, 2SM and 2MMM in
Sydney played the same version during January 1988.
The album version (slow synth intro) blasted my ears
for the first time several years later, on a request
hotline of Gosford's Coast FM in March 1994. I've
grown to like both versions, they have their strengths
in their own ways, but if it came down to the ultimate
nitty gritty, then I'd go with the full out rock
version (1987 single mix).
This version issue has thrown me for several years, as
it appears on two CDs in my physical collection, the
rock mix appears on a five CD set from EMI Australia;
Complete 80s Volume 2, and the album version appears
on a greatest hits of Whitesnake, however none of the
CDs note any info on what versions they were, and to
make things even more confusing, the EMI five CD set
had a 1983 copyright date.
But yayh, finally got this sorted. :)
Cheers guys.
Mark
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This one caught my attention in the car today. I was noting a slightly different piano arrangement than I was expecting. Also, there was none of the background harmonies in
this version I was listening to.
The worst part is that I have been looking for this version for a while in my collection, while all the time not knowing it was in the file list undocumented as a 45.
This was on my phone for riding in the car, or other bluetooth connections around the house. I guess I must have the two versions and this one I heard today has been out
of rotation, or blocked for some odd reason.
I always knew there were at least two versions, and I prefer this 45 version to the LP version. It's the one they played on the radio here in STL back in the day.
Edited by AdvprosD on 08 May 2021 at 7:29pm
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I think that one reason that the LP version is considered
the "hit" version has to do with the fact that it was the
version used in the music video that played (what seemed
like) every fifteen minutes on MTV in 1987.
(Interesting to see this one resurface at the same time
that the actress featured in said video, Tawny Katain,
passed away.)
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JMD1961 wrote:
(Interesting to see this one resurface at the same time
that the actress featured in said video, Tawny Katain,
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That is quite a coincidence!
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