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In 1993 when this song was #1 I remember that the "Live" version on this promo CD:
https://www.discogs.com/Mariah-Carey-Hero/release/672935
was played in constant rotation when I was living in NYC. I was wondering if anyone else has the same recollection. I think one of the reasons that it was played due to the enormous success of I'll Be There the year before, which of course had no studio version.
Would this be a case where both the studio and live version are AA sides? Any insight or memory would be helpful...
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The sweetened live mix was taken from Mariah's 1993 NBC Thanksgiving special, later released as a self-titled home video.
The music video was taken from this concert special and received a ton of rotations on MTV, VH1, BET, etc. making this a familiar version for anyone who religiously watched music videos in those days.
While I may have heard the live version a few times on the radio in the build-up to the NBC special - and it did have its own promo CD - I primarily recall the LP Version/A-side as the version preferred by playlist curators.
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I can honestly say I never once heard the Live Version on the radio at all. It's on the Commercial CD Maxi-Single that I have and I listened to it a few times back then and thought it sounded just like the studio version, like she might have been lip syncing to a pre-recorded tape, so I never listened to it after that. Listening to it a little while ago, I noticed she enunciates some words differently and was indeed singing live. (Not that she would have needed to lip-sync, of course. Her voice pretty much blew everyone else's away at the time, except for maybe Celine and Whitney).
I also can't hear this song without thinking of someone I knew at the time. They had a crush on the male audience member in the video in a striped shirt who is seen clapping his hands and they would often watch VH1 hoping to see the video just to catch a glimpse of the guy.
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I only heard the "LP Version" on the radio.
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We only played the studio version. If the live version
was serviced to radio, we didn't get a copy. Then
again, our service from Columbia was kind of spotty at
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Hey Poparchivist:
What station in NYC were you listening to that played
the live version?
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AutumnAarilyn wrote:
Hey Poparchivist:
What station in NYC were you listening to that played
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Z100 or WPLJ. Don't recall which. Sorry it took 2 years to answer lol!
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i heard the live version on WPLJ 95.5 in the city
Edited by edtop40 on 24 August 2022 at 5:16pm
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I Never heard the "Live" version played here. However, I did hear the live version of Mariah and Trey Lorenz "I'll Be There" in constant rotation. Maybe it was the only version?
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If I remember correctly, WPLJ played the live version after
the brutal shooting on the Long Island Railroad (which I
road everyday) on December 7, 1993 were 6 fellow commuters
were killed. They played it as a tribute to the brave souls
on the train that stopped the murderer Colin Ferguson..
Edited by edtop40 on 25 August 2022 at 2:24am
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That seems to be my memory as well, Ed...
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edtop40 wrote:
If I remember correctly, WPLJ played the live version after
the brutal shooting on the Long Island Railroad (which I
road everyday) on December 7, 1993 were 6 fellow commuters
were killed. They played it as a tribute to the brave souls
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Ed thank you it is probably why I recall the Live version being played. Good memory!
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The only reason I remember, was the night of the attack, my
wife was working late in midtown, and I worked downtown and
I had gotten home and was doing some painting on our new
home. I had the radio on while painting and WPLJ came on
during their news broadcast and said there was a shooting
on the LIRR. I was a little shaken by that as all would
know, there was no cell phones. Once they said it had
happened on a local train stopped at the Merillon Ave
Station in Garden City, I knew she wasn't on THAT train.
Very sad event..
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Also, all proceeds from that live version were donated to the families of the
victims, which I thought was great. A mass shooting was so unheard of
back then.....
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As said earlier, the live recording of "Hero" was also the music video version, taken from her heavily promoted Thanksgiving concert TV special on NBC.
Filmed long in advance of the holiday in mid-July, 1993, the standalone promo was sent out as promotion for the NBC special and the Live Version of "Hero" was included as Track 2 on its CD maxi-single release in the US.
The video for future Top 40 hit "Without You" was also taken from this special, but I don't believe the live audio was ever release domestically beyond the home video of the concert.
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