Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

I do seem to recall hearing a version of what you're describing, but I only heard it a few times here in the Milwaukee market and couldn't tell you how it went.

WPLJ in NY played a dialog mix very heavily. I recorded it
on to a Sony mini-disc at the time, when those were a
thing for a very short time. But that mix was lost when my
mini-disc player died. CDR's had then arrived so I never
had the player fixed.

I don't know if WPLJ made the mix themselves or if it was
serviced to them. Their mix was the only one I heard that
used the "hit" version of the song. The mix I heard on
other stations was made from the soundtrack recording.
MM

radiofan16 wrote: The local Philly Hot AC station Star 104.5 or WYXR, played the "dialog" mix for the single's entire chart and recurrent, possibly because the AC station B101 was playing the regular version. The song ended with Kate Winslet saying "I'll never let go" and at the beginning, I recall the phrase "It is insinkable" being repeated. The line "Iceberg right ahead!" appeared in the middle.

I remember that well. But I think there may have been at least a small difference in the version that Star 104 played versus the one that appears on the "Back To Titanic" soundtrack. For some reason, I remember thinking that the Back To Titanic version sounded different than what I'd heard on the radio.

Love that pun about the song having sunk on the charts, Aaron. Good one!

I just listened to the Back To Titanic mix, and there's no "It Is Insinkable" at all at the beginning like radiofan16 mentioned and I also didn't hear "Iceberg right ahead" in the middle, either. But the mix DOES end with Kate Winslet saying, "I'll never let go".

I guess that explains why the Back To Titanic mix sounded a little different to me when I first heard it. I had forgotten that it had been released several months after the original Titanic soundtrack, and Sony apparently did their own dialogue mix. I never would have imagined there were multiple mixes of it, like you mentioned in the first post.

By the way, for anyone who might dislike the song, take into consideration that it could have been #1 much longer than 2 weeks if it had been released as a single earlier. By the time it was released, the airplay was so high that the single was assured of debuting at #1, which it did. It was later that same year that Billboard began including Airplay-only songs onto the chart.

thecdguy wrote: By the way, for anyone who might dislike the song, take into consideration that it could have been #1 much longer than 2 weeks if it had been released as a single earlier. By the time it was released, the airplay was so high that the single was assured of debuting at #1, which it did. It was later that same year that Billboard began including Airplay-only songs onto the chart.

Yep. #1 for 9 weeks (CHR) in Radio & Records!