Contours - Do You Love Me (1988 Remix)

Going back to Dan's original post:

I heard the same AT40 episode on iHeartRadio's "Classic AT40" channel, and I also noticed that "Do You Love Me" was the 1988 version with the extra production stuff, not the 1962 original.

Earlier in the weekend, I caught their airing of AT40's "Top 50 of 1979" countdown. The show included the incorrect mix of Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" (the previously unreleased mix that first appeared on Rhino's Billboard Top Hits 1979 disc from 1991). Obviously, this mix didn't appear on the 1979 airing of the show. I also confirmed that it didn't appear on Shannon Lynn's remastering of the show. Someone at iHeartRadio must have edited the show to replace the music. Not sure why it was edited this way, or who did the editing, though.

Point being: The shows you hear on iHeartRadio's "Classic AT40" channel are not always as they originally aired.

IIRC, a guy named Toby James Petty is the one responsible for "updating" some of the tracks used on the re-airings of AT40.
I always thought that he tried to stick with the original versions, but I guess not! Which is what prompted me to ask Aaron
about the Contours song (by 1988, I wasn't listening to AT40 as intently as I used to).

EternalStatic wrote: It has been asked in both DYLM? threads whether the 12" Remix (1988) appears on CD. After doing some sleuthing, I can say that it very likely appears on one CD: a 1989 Motown release titled Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance), which is not a straight reissue of The Contours' debut album of the same name but a then-new compilation of previous singles. The catalog number is MOTD-5415 and it appears to be out of print. I do not own the 12" single myself, so I cannot compare its cut A1 ("Remix") to cut A2 ("Edited Version") to validate whether the edit can fully be re-created from the long version, but if someone can confirm that, I would be happy to start trying to run down this CD and work on the edit.

I own the 12" single, and I can confirm with certainty that the "Edited Version" cannot be edited from the 6:33 "Remix." During the first chorus of the Edited Version, there are lyrical differences that are no where to be found on the long version.

On the Edited Version, the first chorus is as follows:

Do you love me? (I can really move)
Do you love me? (I'm in the groove)

The vocals on every chorus of the "Remix," by contrast, sounds like this:

Do you love me? (Do you love me?)
Do you love me, baby? (Do you love me?)

There's not a single chorus in the entire 6:33 version that matches the opening chorus of the "Edited Version."