"If You Leave" - Orchestral Manoeuvres...
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Topic: "If You Leave" - Orchestral Manoeuvres...
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "If You Leave" - Orchestral Manoeuvres...
Date Posted: 06 September 2008 at 7:05pm
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The actual commercial 45 run time of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "If You Leave" is 4:26. (Timing info once again comes to us from abagon. The printed record label time is 4:24.) I only post this because database CD appearances of this song run 4:21-4:28.
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Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 03 December 2011 at 12:22pm
I'm hoping somebody who has the original A&M Records 12" from 1986 can help me out here. Discogs claims (based on the label, I'm sure) that the "Extended Version" (produced by Tom Lord-Alge) runs 5:59.
I've come up with two mixes, one labeled the "digital remix" (which has a sample from Right Said Fred's 'I'm Too Sexy," placing it in the early 90s) runs 6:38, and another labeled as the Hot Tracks Dance Remix runs 6:00.
I'd believe the Hot Tracks Remix is the original 12" mix... except Hot Tracks was their own production company.... and this does sound a bit like one of their efforts.
Does anybody know the actual length of the original 12" Extended Remix, and have you found it on any CD (foreign or domestic)?
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Posted By: 995wlol
Date Posted: 03 December 2011 at 2:41pm
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I own the US 12" single of "If You Leave". It runs about 5:57 on my turntable. It is a completely different mix than the Hot Tracks version, which sounds like it has been re-arranged from the album version with the addition of an over-dubbed dance beat.
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Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 03 December 2011 at 2:58pm
Here's the original 12".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDY374JtF8
I have it on this CD:
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Alternatives-Retro-Extended-Mi xes/dp/B0000507CM/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1322949437& sr=1-4
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Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 03 December 2011 at 10:40pm
Aha! That's what I needed; thanks so much!!
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Gene Savage
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Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
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