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Post by Mike on Jul 23, 2017 0:22:46 GMT -5
Josh Joel's Top 40: Here's one for you. 7/8/89. For "On Our Own", instead of the music starting right away along with the line, "Want somethin' done? Gotta do it yourself", we instead get the song's bridge at the beginning, and the music doesn't really kick in until after that. Which version is which? Isn't that the version from Ghostbusters II? That one starts off with Bobby rapping "too hot to handle, too cold to hold..." The version you were referring to is the album version I believe... I finally went and researched this. "On Our Own" is listed at 4:54 on the soundtrack, and that length matches this clip here. This, in turn, is the one where the music starts right away - so this one would be the album version. This clip, on the other hand, is the version that starts with his rap. As is this one, which clocks in at 4:30. Seeing as the former is a video of the 45 record playing, this has to be the single version. It's also the one that played on 7/8. |
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Post by Mike on Jul 23, 2017 0:39:40 GMT -5
While I'm at it, I have another entry from this same time. Paula Abdul's "Cold Hearted". It looks like 7/8 was the week to mix things up a bit; they played the single version as heard here, which includes a rap before the bridge. Whereas, on 7/15 which I just finished up earlier, it's the album version as heard here. (Instead of a rap, there are short instrumental breaks between the first verse + chorus pairs and between the second pair and bridge; the single version cuts these breaks out.) They also skipped the first verse of "Buffalo Stance" entirely on 7/8, but that's not really an "odd version" as much as it is an odd production move.  |
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 23, 2017 6:10:43 GMT -5
Lady (You Bring Me Up) has a version I've never heard before on the 7/25/1981 show. Re-recorded early 1990's version? I remember hearing that version on the short lived Gary Spears Retro Show on WBBM 96.3 Chicago which took Casey's Top 40's place in Summer 1993. |
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Post by Mike on Jul 23, 2017 17:49:02 GMT -5
Lady (You Bring Me Up) has a version I've never heard before on the 7/25/1981 show. Come to think of it, a couple of other songs sounded a bit "off" as well. In "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", the sax sounds especially far in the background (only faintly audible), and is it just me or does "Queen of Hearts" sound like it's playing at a slower speed? |
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Post by Mike on Aug 2, 2017 0:21:38 GMT -5
While I'm at it, I have another entry from this same time. Paula Abdul's "Cold Hearted". It looks like 7/8 was the week to mix things up a bit; they played the single version as heard here, which includes a rap before the bridge. 7/22 has this too. Hmmm, is this going to be the more common version heard? |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 2, 2017 1:40:25 GMT -5
I'll let you find out.  Personally, the single version is what I prefer, and I have it, courtesy of her greatest hits CD. |
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Post by giannirubino on Aug 2, 2017 4:33:16 GMT -5
bestmusicexpert wrote: "Well I'm glad that its not just the one time but I still don't understand the 12 inch version of Rock Me Amadeus. A 45 version/edit/remix is one thing. but a 12 inch version on a show thats not the disco special?"
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If different versions are being played across the country, I'm glad that the AT40 staff tried to play them. An obvious example would be Nena's "99 Luftballons." It was nice to hear the English version (even if I prefer the German) because they didn't play the English version in my area.
I don't know, I'm of two minds on this. If a part of the country is playing a different version, then I do want to hear it on AT40, but if no one is playing it, I don't need to hear it. But how would we have known back in the 1970s, 1980s unless Casey was telling us, or we had a subscription to Billboard?
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Post by Hervard on Aug 2, 2017 18:37:47 GMT -5
Lady (You Bring Me Up) has a version I've never heard before on the 7/25/1981 show. Re-recorded early 1990's version? I remember hearing that version on the short lived Gary Spears Retro Show on WBBM 96.3 Chicago which took Casey's Top 40's place in Summer 1993. I remember that show! Maybe one of the reasons it was so short-lived is because WPNT (100.3) was running a similar show, called Retro Saturday Night. I know that was still on in the spring of 1996. Not sure when Gary Spears Retro Show ended, but I seem to remember that it did not last into 1994. Then again, I don't know; after they dropped Casey's Top 40, I had no use for the station anymore. |
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Post by Mike on Aug 4, 2017 22:35:28 GMT -5
What version would it be of "Buffalo Stance", that starts by essentially skipping the first verse? It starts with a short musical intro, then a couple of lines right before the chorus, then that.
It's in two shows: 7/29/89 and another '89 (I forget the other offhand). I don't think it's the regular 12-inch mix; that one's an extended version that runs over 5 minutes, this is (obviously) shorter than even the regular single version. Or was it just a custom edit that AT40 did to make it shorter?
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Post by Michael1973 on Aug 17, 2017 13:36:06 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but I heard some old Rick Dees shows recently and noticed that he played a very watered-down remix of Amy Grant's "Baby Baby" that to me sounded awful. It would always bother me when these countdown shows played versions of songs that sounded nothing like what you'd hear the rest of the week on the radio. You'd think with all the paranoia among radio programmers to keep people listening that they'd want to play the versions that audiences actually knew and liked!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 18, 2017 0:14:35 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but I heard some old Rick Dees shows recently and noticed that he played a very watered-down remix of Amy Grant's "Baby Baby" that to me sounded awful. It would always bother me when these countdown shows played versions of songs that sounded nothing like what you'd hear the rest of the week on the radio. You'd think with all the paranoia among radio programmers to keep people listening that they'd want to play the versions that audiences actually knew and liked! Dees always had some, well, unique mixes for hits on his shows (which I didn't exactly care for either). I think he called them a "Weekly Top 40 Remix" or something along those lines. I think the earliest show I heard such a mix was one of his 1986 shows (might have been Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach"). The early 1990s (especially 1992) was tricky when it came to versions heard on the radio, and ones played on countdown shows - we had Shadoe, Casey, and Dees back then. And maybe you'd get a different version of the same song on all three shows in a given week. I'm picky with my versions - I like most radio edits, but every so often I'll prefer the album version to the radio version (like Jewel's "Foolish Games"). And some versions have been hard to find for years. |
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Post by Mike on Aug 20, 2017 17:29:40 GMT -5
To continue off the above, 8/19/89 had such a remix played for "Express Yourself".
ETA: It's the Shep Pettibone remix, most known for being the one used for the video.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 20, 2017 20:26:37 GMT -5
Do you also remember on the 5/29/1993 AT40 episode Shadoe Stevens played the live unplugged version of "Mr. Wendall" by Arrested Development?
Did Shadoe ever get a chance to play the original 1971 version of "Reason to Believe" by Rod Stewart in place of the UNPLUGGED AND SEATED live version while it was on the AT40 charts?
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Post by burcjm on Aug 21, 2017 10:53:31 GMT -5
"Heart And Soul" on the 8/22/87 show? It sounded slightly different from the version usually played on the radio.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 21, 2017 17:47:05 GMT -5
"Heart And Soul" on the 8/22/87 show? It sounded slightly different from the version usually played on the radio. It was the original LP version that they played - didn't hear that too often during its run. ETA: The following tune at #8, "Rock Steady", was also the LP version, which is almost a minute longer than the radio version, which we usually hear. |
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