Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby"
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Topic: Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby"
Posted By: Roscoe
Subject: Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby"
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 12:05pm
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Does anyone know which version of Ice Ice Baby is considered the official commercial 45 version? I have an import CD single that contains versions listed as "Radio Mix" (4:32) and "Radio Mix Edit" (3:49).
I suspect that the commercial 45 was the Radio Mix running 4:32, but don't have an actual 45 to compare it with. |
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 4:41pm
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Roscoe, the US commercial cassette single (there was no 45, to my knowledge!) used the Club Mix, running 5:00 or 5:01, and was only issued on the US promo CD, plus one import I've seen. (Don't get confused... I'm not talking about the Miami Drop Mix that is on so many of the imports... though that is the BEST mix, IMO.)
The cassette single was backed with the Radio Mix of Play That Funky Music, before it was issued separately as a single, which I believe is the same mix that is common on the import CDs. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 7:11pm
| Does the "Radio Mix" sound completely different than the "LP Version"? I'm only used to hearing the LP version. Is the "Club Mix" also a completely different mix than the radio & LP mixes? |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 8:49pm
Don't know about the Radio Mix of Play That Funky music, as I've never heard the LP version. However, the Club Mix of Ice Ice Baby is actually a different mix than the others, even using what I think may be a different take of his vocal on the second verse, around "No, I just drove by, kept on..." He gets a bit out of breath and falls a bit behind the beat for a couple lines. Plus, the Club Mix ends cold and has a longer intro than the others. |
aaronk wrote:Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 10:56pm
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The "radio mix" of Play That Funky Music is definitely different than the LP version. The lyrics and backing track are changed.
Does anyone recall radio stations ever playing the "club mix" or "radio mix" of Ice Ice Baby? I'm quite sure the video used a shorter mix of the LP version. If my memory serves me correctly, the song ends cold at the first part where the beat stops and it's just the synthesizer. The LP version continues for another 45 seconds or so. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 31 December 2005 at 12:50am
| The Club Mix has that part too, then it goes on from there for close to a minute, ending with someone whispering, "Fresh," and that echoes out, and that's the end of the song. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 31 December 2005 at 10:02am
| So, what I gather is that the "radio mix" is a short version of the "LP version" and the "club mix" has the same backing track, but it's longer and has a different vocal take on the second verse. Essentially, the backing tracks for the LP, radio, and club mixes are all pretty much the same---not drastically remixed like the "miami drop mix." Does that sound about right? |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 31 December 2005 at 12:55pm
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A correction: That part of the vocal take isn't different from the Radio Version, it's different from the Miami Drop Mix, which is all I used to listen to.
And the mixes are very similar, but the Club Mix is slightly different... you couldn't edit the Radio Mix to make it longer and have the club mix, for example. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 25 July 2010 at 12:52pm
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my commercial cassingle issued as sbk 07335 states the version as the "club mix" with a stated run time of 4:59 but actually runs 5:01.....i don't have the corresponding vinyl 45 to compare that format.....this cassingle data s/b reflected in the db....
------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 2:38pm
| The commercial vinyl 45 (SBK LS-57394) does not indicate a run time or version, but it is the same version that appears on the cassette single (the "Club Mix"). |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 6:29pm
By gum, I didn't know there was a 45 for this! |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 7:07pm
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Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 17 April 2014 at 12:20pm
| I have that 45 too. It was one of the first "for jukeboxes only" 45s from the Capitol family of labels. I don't think it's that hard to find. |