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Cover Girls - "Wishing On A Star"

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Topic: Cover Girls - "Wishing On A Star"

Posted By: crapfromthepast
Subject: Cover Girls - "Wishing On A Star"
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 7:48pm

I have a version that runs 4:41 on Hot Hits - Pop - Vol. 14. I also have a version on Top Hits USA RH14 that runs 4:04; there's no designation of "edit" or anything on this version.

I though one would be a simple edit of the other, but in the short 4:04 version, there are 8 instrumental beats before the a cappella ending that have vocals on top of it in the 4:41 version. No can do.

For the record, does anyone have the promo CD info for this song?

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Posted By: Steve Sharp
Date Posted: 18 September 2008 at 12:21am

I have the cd maxi - here's what's on it

1. 7" edit (3:59)- my cd player states 4:03
2. jeep edit (3:59) - 4:05
3. 12" mix (6:43) - 6:44
4. jeep 12" (6:43) - 6:45
5. original version (4:40) - 4:41

I'm guessing you're referencing cuts 1 and 5, from this cd.

Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 28 September 2008 at 11:57pm

crapfromthepast wrote:

For the record, does anyone have the promo CD info for this song?

Ron, we got in two different promo CD singles for this song. One of them appears to be almost identical, track-wise, to the commercial CD single info that Steve Sharp has already posted above, but since mine happens to be a promo, I have opted to still include this now-mostly-redundant info one more time, just for the record:

Cover Gitls-"Wishing On A Star" (ESK 74343)
1-(non-described version) (listed 3:56; actual 4:05)

Cover Girls-"Wishing On A Star" (ESK 4652)
1-7" Edit (listed 3:59; actual 4:00)
2-Jeep Edit (listed 3:59; actual 4:01)
3-12" Mix (listed 6:43; actual 6:42)
4-Jeep 12" (listed & actual 6:43)
5-Original Version (listed 4:40; actual 4:41)

Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 5:40pm

Wow Jim that is interesting because my dj cd single is Epic ESK 74343 and features a non described version that runs (4:05) not (3:56) as stated on the label (matrix number DISP 001504).

Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 7:40pm

Pat, I just re-checked my notes from all the posts I typed in last night, and I had mistakenly typed in the time info from the song just above "Wishing On A Star" on my list (Achy Breaky Heart), which accounted for the listed/actual (3:23) info. My "Wishing On A Star" notes do exactly confirm your "listed 3:56; actual 4:05" timing info, and I have corrected my original post - my apologies. Thanks, Pat!

Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 30 September 2008 at 6:49pm

So now which version does everyone consider the commercial "45 version"?

Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 07 September 2009 at 3:51pm

my 1992 commercial cassingle (THE single format at the time) issued as epic 74343 does not state a version nor running time on either the cassingles' face or the cardboard sleeve but does run 4:41 and is identical to all the 4:41 cd entries in the db.....the single version is the 4:41 version because that's what was/is on the cassingle.....

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edtop40

Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 07 September 2009 at 5:57pm

My U.S. commercial 7-inch single also runs 4:41.