james ingram--yah mo b there
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Topic: james ingram--yah mo b there
Posted By: edtop40
Subject: james ingram--yah mo b there
Date Posted: 11 December 2004 at 12:27pm
anyone know if the version that is on michael mcdonalds' very best of cd is the 45 version issued on qwest 29394......the run time on all music says its 4:32 while the 45 says the run time is 4:02 but the actual run time of the 45 is 4:08........james ingrams' greatest hits cd has a 4:02 version of the song but IT IS NOT the 45 version....
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Posted By: Moderator
Date Posted: 11 December 2004 at 4:41pm
My version of "Yah Mo B There" on James Ingram's Greatest Hits cd runs 4:29 even though the cd jacket states 4:02. Do you have a pressing of this cd where "Ya Mo B There" really does run 4:02?
I have found no domestic cd's that include the 45 version of this song.
Actually only one cd features the true album version of "Yah Mo B There" and that is the cd "It's Your Night". All other cd's have a shorter and remixed version of this hit.
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 9:01pm
does anyone know if the rhino cd "the ultimate collection" contains the true 45 version of "yah mo b there" by micaheal mcdonald & james ingram........the 45 states the run time as 4:02 but actually runs 4:08.........allmusic.com says that the cd contains the "single version" but it runs 4:24..........does anyone know if this version on this cd is really the 45 version just running a little long or is it the same version from james ingram's best of cd.....
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Posted By: Moderator
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 5:49am
Yes I have the Michael McDonald Ultimate Collection and the version of "Ya Mo B There" is the 45 version running :12 longer than the 45. The timing index on the cd runs to 4:24 but for some reason the last :04 are silent.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 9:51am
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Thanks, Pat, for confirming that Rhino got the single version of "Ya Mo Be There" right this time (despite the extended run time length) on Michael McDonald's new Ultimate Collection CD. As you correctly point out in the 10th edition, McDonald's Very Best of disc (Warner Archives/Rhino 76649) contains the LP version even though the CD jacket incorrectly states "single version".
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 26 October 2005 at 3:58pm
just reviewed the song "yah mo b there" and it is indeed the same version as the 45 but you'll have to fade out the cd version to 4:08 to have it match perfectly......
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Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 24 January 2010 at 1:45pm
I don't have the 45 for this one, and am a little confused about what it should sound like.
There's the fairly common-on-CD version that starts off with a mid-beat snare hit and a drum machine pattern. Other synth instruments trickle in beginning at :09, but the drum machine pattern doesn't change. This version runs about 4:28, and shows up on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties - 1984-1985 and Body Talk - Heart And Soul, as well as the excellent import WB Michael McDonald collection from 1986 called Sweet Freedom. I assume that's the album version.
There's an edited version of the 4:28 version on The A List, with the intro shortened and faded early, which runs about 4:09. Is this the US 45?
There's an entirely different mix running about 4:04 on the UK 2-CD set from 1993 called Now 1985. This version has an intro with a hi-hat, lots of clapping, and a right-hand synth pattern. There's no constant snare/bass drum part at all until the first verse around 0:33 in. Is this the UK 45?
Anyone?
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Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 24 January 2010 at 4:58pm
The 12" version is on the 1994 Sony Music French CD
Culture Dance Collector Vol 3
It runs 6:36
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Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 24 January 2010 at 11:27pm
According to the "GUINNESS British Hit Singles 13th edition" book.
Feb 84 pos/44 wks/5
Apr 84 pos/69 wks/3 (re-entry)
Jan 85 pos/12 wks/8 (2nd re-entry)
Jan 85 pos/12 wks/8 (remix)
"Yah Mo B There" was ranked in the U.K. chart four times.
It seems that on the "Now 1985" CD is the "Remix" hit version in the U.K. chart.
--abagon
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Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 29 November 2010 at 6:45pm
Two tiny items for this track:
The version on Time-Life's 2-CD Body And Soul - Sweet Embrace (Vol. 9, 1999) is a digital clone of Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties 1984-1985 (Vol. 23, 1997), but it's missing the first ten beats of the song. Sounds like an engineer wanted it to start on a downbeat, and just lopped off part of the intro. The fade is the same as the other disc.
The version on WB's Michael McDonald best-of Sweet Freedom (1986, European disc that might not have even been released in US) is missing a tiny bit of the first snare hit on the intro. It's not a big deal, but it does sound like something's amiss, when compared to the Time-Life disc above.
Minor stuff, but thought I should document it somewhere.
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Posted By: 995wlol
Date Posted: 29 July 2013 at 4:46pm
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Can the LP version on the "It's Your Night" CD be edited down to the 45 version?
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Posted By: VWestlife
Date Posted: 02 January 2022 at 10:31am
I've never heard the 45 version with all the weird echoey synth clapping during the intro until I read this thread and found a copy of it online.
The version I have on James Ingram's "The Power of Great Music" compilation CD (not listed in the database) runs 4:29 and thus is likely the same as all the other CDs running 4:29-ish and listed as "Remix". The music video on YouTube is the same mix as it except with most of the intro cut off and an early fade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SPYSrcxhzY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SPYSrcxhzY
And in this aircheck of 640 KFI counting down the Top 84 songs of 1984 (back when they used to play music, in AM Stereo!), at 9:51 they played the full album version, which has less reverb on the synth drums and is slightly longer than the common 4:29-ish remix:
http://am-stereo.dharlos.de/2/640kfi.mp3 - http://am-stereo.dharlos.de/2/640kfi.mp3
So what is the definitve "hit" version??
* The 45 version with echoey synth clapping
* The music video edit of the common remix version
* Or the album version which was played on the radio back in 1984?
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