Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind
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Topic: Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind
Posted By: Oddbjorn
Subject: Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind
Date Posted: 17 March 2008 at 1:18pm
I have the UK 45 (Warner Bros. K 17582) - it runs 3.55. This version fades in about 0.5 - 1.5 second before any of my CD's with '45 length' do (they differ slightly). It also fades out 1 - 2 second before the CD's. At the very start there is a wind blowing (I think). Can anyone tell me if the US 45 also have this noise near the beginning?
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OddNor
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 7:04pm
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The US dj promo does have the wind on the introduction.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 8:05pm
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Does anyone have the U.S. commercial 45 version who can determine if the wind sound effects in the intro run longer than on CD?
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Posted By: Oddbjorn
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 6:04am
I compared the UK45 with the version on the CD TimeLife 'Classic Soft Rock - Ride Like The Wind' in WavePad. The intro on the 45 (before the music start) is 04.87, while it is 02.31 on the CD. I think I have to correct myself - the whole intro is a wind effect -but there is another, very short sound just after the beginning. I can not tell what it is.
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OddNor
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Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 7:55am
I confirmed my stock commercial US45.Christopher's vocal starts at "0:35.747". The 45 running time is "3:50"
And I did this tune on US LP,too.His vocal starts at "0:33.645".Therefore LP's introduction is shorter than US45.
Oddbjorn:Thank you for the great topic.
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Posted By: Oddbjorn
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 4:46am
On the UK45 the vocal starts at 35.897. On the TimeLife CD mentioned above it starts at 33.580. So the UK45 and US45 seems to be much the same (UK45 run a few seconds longer), while the LP and most of the CD's (perhaps all) have a shorter intro. The soundeffect which I mentioned above is around 0.6 (You have to turn up the volume to hear it).
Thank you all for Your help to clearify this.
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OddNor
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Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 16 July 2008 at 10:49pm
As the run time info:
The actual 45 running time is (3:50), the listed time is "3:54" on the record label. (Warner WBS 49184)
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 February 2011 at 7:29pm
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There must be two pressings of "Ride Like The Wind," because Ed just sent me a dub of his US 45. The vocal starts at 0:35, just like abagon's, but Ed's copy runs 3:55. This lines up with the timing for the "45 length" CDs in the database.
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Posted By: Jody Thornton
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 2:46pm
Does the 45-rpm disc fade off before the long sustained "Ruuunnnnnnnnnnn" that Christopher sings at the end? I know most radio stations never aired the song that far to the end. Just curious.
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Cheers,
Jody Thornton
(Burlington, Ontario)
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Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 06 February 2011 at 8:02am
I sent mp3 files of both the 45 and LP to Aaron, and asked him the analysis.
Aaron wrote:
"I think it would cause confusion to label it as "version." It's only a second shorter on the intro, and the audio level is very low at that point."
I agree with him. Many thanks for the opinion, Aaron!
--abagon
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 06 February 2011 at 8:24am
my vinyl 45 has "wbs-49184 xca-8982-s jw1" etched in the runout groove...
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edtop40
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Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 06 February 2011 at 8:41am
My commercial 45 has "WBS-49184 XCA-8982-S LW2" etched in the runout groove. There are definitely two pressings!
--abagon
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 18 July 2016 at 5:50pm
my commercial 45 definitely runs 3:54...can anyone else
confirm their us commercial 45 runs 3:54?
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edtop40
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Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 19 August 2025 at 12:45am
I heard an extended version of "Ride Like The Wind" the other evening on one of SiriusXM's channels at the gym. (Shut up; they have a great cafe' downstairs.) It sounded like it was remixed and expanded from the original tracks as opposed to just throwing a beat over the original recording.
Looking at Discogs, I see no evidence of a 12" ever being released; does anybody know where this mix might have originated? Was this commercially released, or is this something SiriusXM had whipped up?
I don't see my 80s station playing it since it wasn't "original" to the era (I believe), but it was quite well done and faithful to the spirit of the original recording. I'm mainly just curious where it came from.
EDIT I may have just answered my own question:
https://www.discogs.com/master/959550-Joey-Negro-Remixed-With-Love-By-Joey-Negro-Vol-Two" rel="nofollow - Remixed With Love By Joey Negro (Vol. Two)
https://youtu.be/TrbSbg7yK9M?si=DGyvJdTZxzjeoTQW" rel="nofollow - YouTube audio
I was hearing it on a ceiling speaker so it's hard to be 100% confident, but this sounds similar to what I heard. The album says "reworked from original multitrack tapes" so that would explain what I heard. Release date 2016. Over my home system it sounds more "reworked" than what I remember hearing, but again keep in mind I was hearing satellite radio over an 8" full-range speaker. :-) Some of the YouTube comments even mention hearing it on Studio 54, so there we go. Mystery solved!
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