AMBROSIA - "Biggest Part Of Me"

The mastering history for the promo 45 version ("Edit", printed 3:59, actual 4:07) is very straightforward.

It first appeared on CD on Heartland Music/Warner Special Products' 2-CD Magic Moments (1992), where it runs 4:07. It does have some high-end EQ artifacts, which over-emphasize the hi-hat and give the snare a pleasant ring, but weren't part of the actual recording. (We suspect faulty NR decoding, maybe?) The same analog transfer is used on:

• Mystic Music/Cema's 2-CD Cool Rock (1995) - differently EQ'd digital clone
• JCI's Only Love 1980-1984 (1995)
• Madacy's Rock On 1980 (1996) - digitally exactly 0.1 dB quieter
• Cornerstone Promotions/Warner Special Products' 2-CD Touched By Love (1997)

It also appears on TM Century GoldDisc 124, but doesn't appear to be based on the Magic Moments mastering and fades a few seconds earlier.

In principle, the "Edit" should be just one edit (that removes 2:21 to 3:05 of the LP version) and an early fade, but the 3:05 portion of the LP version includes the end of a sung note that isn't present on the "Edit".

Edited by crapfromthepast

From 2005-2018, I subscribed to TM PrimeCuts and also
subscribed to their Smooth Jazz series since that genre was
great for dinner music at weddings back then.

This is the version I have on a Smooth Jazz disc and it's
labeled as David Pack (not Ambrosia.) He off course was
their lead singer.

https://youtu.be/61gF2Vorxc4?feature=shared

After some more investigating, it appears that the version that Scanner posted the link to is the 2005 charted (AC) remix by Ambrosia.

David Pack DID record a new version in 2005, but his recording came out some months after the Ambrosia remix charted.

I will update the info in our next AC book (if it ever happens).