starship "we built this city"

Was the no-intro no-DJ-rap version ever released promotionally when the song was climbing the charts? Or was it a later version?

Andy

Does anybody remember ever hearing the "no-DJ rap" version on the air?

The station I listened to (WBEN-FM) had just changed off of automation the year before, so sometimes there were variations on what they played. Most of the time they played the regular 45 version with the DJ rap, but after it had been out a while I remember hearing the no-DJ rap version a few times on that station. I was surprised at the time because I didn't know of its existence.

I later sought out the promo 45 and 12-inch single that contained this version.

torcan wrote: Does anybody remember ever hearing the "no-DJ rap" version on the air?

Yes, I remember hearing it on a smaller market station at the time and it really surprised me that there was no DJ voice at all (I had heard a couple of the custom versions as well). I thought maybe the station took it out for some reason, but years later I found out there actually was a promo version released, which makes more sense.

Edited by Paul Haney - Yesterday at 5:03pm

Andy - The only versions released at the time all had the same sung intro. The no-intro no-DJ-rap first appeared on the CD Greatest Hits Ten Years And Change 1979-1991 (1991).

It was a mastering error, similar to Columbia's Heart Of Rock (1988) cutting off the five-snare intro of "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". That error would find its way onto Realm's Gold And Platinum Vol. 4 (1988), the TM Century library (I think), and swaitek's The A List Disc 40 (1994).