Amy Grant - "Baby Baby"

In L.A., I mainly heard a more urban-ish mix of "Baby Baby" on CHR radio. I didn't like it and always preferred the LP mix. Same with "Good For Me". However, for "Every Heartbeat" I preferred the single mix. And for "That's What Love Is For", IIRC the single and album versions were the same except for a guitar playing the solo (unless that was just in the video!)

BTW, Todd it's great to see you actively participating in
our little community again with excellent, detailed
information!

Todd Ireland wrote: After all, vinyl 45s were the only commercial single format made available on the mass market from 1955 until around mid-1987.

FWIW, from 1949-1950 and then again from around 1959 to
1964 there were 7-inch 33-1/3 RPM singles as well, which
even RCA Victor (inventor of the 45) got on board with,
but they were a flop with consumers, so most of them went
into jukeboxes (Seeburg was a big proponent of the
format).

And as for cassette singles, they were introduced by
I.R.S. Records (who trademarked the term "Cassingle") in
1982, beginning with a 25,000-copy test market release of
the Go-Go's "Vacation" in Atlanta. But you're right that
cassingles didn't really take off until the late 1980s,
when 45 sales were rapidly declining.

Back to the topic -- the LP version of "Baby Baby" is
what I always heard on the radio, not any of the remixes.

Todd Ireland wrote: I have created a separate message board thread to help serve as a reference guide highlighting the most popular 2-track commercial single formats by year from 1988 through 2005. The thread is linked here.

This is a stellar post. Thanks for doing the research on it!

aaronk wrote: I think this is where the confusion has come in. The policy since the beginning has not been just that it's on any commercial 2-track single; it's that the dominant 2-track single at the time is considered to be the one with the "official" single version. That means for songs charting between 1955 to around 1989 (maybe Ed or Paul H. can verify), it's the vinyl 45. From around 1990 to 1995, we've considered it to be the cassette single. And from 1996 until things went to downloads it was the 2-track CD single. Again, someone would need to verify the actual dates/years, as I'm not 100% sure.

I have created a separate message board thread to help serve as a reference guide highlighting the most popular 2-track commercial single formats by year from 1988 through 2005.

The thread is linked here.

Edited by Todd Ireland