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Post by bestmusicexpert on Feb 26, 2012 12:33:31 GMT -5
That was the early version of Rock With You, I used that one on my Jacksons Top 100 countdown a while back. 2 songs on the album were remixed (The other was Get On The Floor) I enjoy both versions personally...
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 28, 2012 17:13:10 GMT -5
On at least once occasion, Casey played the "Titanic" remix of "My Heart Will Go On," which included the dialogue. Rick Dees played it almost every week. He also played a version of "Southhampton" that included drops from the movie.
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Post by JMW on Mar 4, 2012 17:56:32 GMT -5
What version of Foolish Heart was the one they played this week (where "foolish" is whispered towards the end of the song)? I only recall hearing the song without the whispering back then (and because of that, it's the one I prefer).
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Post by Mike on Mar 10, 2012 13:28:59 GMT -5
This weekend's 3/12/88 show: A different mix of Jody Watley's "Some Kind of Lover". Where did this come from?
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 10, 2012 13:31:29 GMT -5
Yeah, but even with the different mix, hervard still thinks it sounds like her other songs, a feeling that I do not subscribe to.
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Post by albe on Mar 10, 2012 13:56:13 GMT -5
I for one loved the intro on that version of Jody's song
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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Mar 10, 2012 14:42:52 GMT -5
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Post by Mike on Mar 10, 2012 15:02:36 GMT -5
So it's the album version?
That's a little bizarre - I would've thought it was a single version or maybe even a remix, the way it sounded so "out there".
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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Mar 10, 2012 15:05:53 GMT -5
So it's the album version? That's a little bizarre - I would've thought it was a single version or maybe even a remix, the way it sounded so "out there". Yep - it is the 7" single version. It must have been the previous week. I'm listening to the show as we speak. Yours, Josh Joel |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 10, 2012 15:44:42 GMT -5
So it's the album version? I definitely remember buying Jody Watley's debut album in June 1988, and the version heard on today's AT40: The 80's was not featured on the album. The version normally heard on AT40 back then was the official album version. The version heard this time around was the version heard in the music video. |
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Post by blackbowl68 on Mar 11, 2012 8:30:46 GMT -5
I don't think ANY of Jody Watley's singles matched the album versions. You gotta remember she is a dance artist so the record company will issue remixes for the clubs. Many times, one of these remixes will get a edit for the 45 RPM single. This was common for many dance oriented singles in the late 1980's.
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Post by Hervard on Mar 11, 2012 11:16:15 GMT -5
Yeah, but even with the different mix, hervard still thinks it sounds like her other songs, a feeling that I do not subscribe to. I did not say that. I said "Some Kind Of Lover" sounds like "Don't You Want Me". |
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Post by mct1 on Mar 14, 2012 11:44:22 GMT -5
On the 2/23/80 show that was played a few weeks back, Casey played two versions that struck me as unusual.
1) For The Dirt Band's "An American Dream", he played a version that replaced the line "sandy beaches, making love every night" with "sandy beaches, drinking rum every night". Does anyone know where this version comes from? Did Casey play it every week? Was the 45 like that, or is this some kind of promotional radio edit? I wouldn't have thought that the phrase "making love" would have been particularly controversial even in 1980.
2) For Led Zeppelin's "Fool In The Rain", he played a version that faded out about halfway through the song, in the early part of the instrumental break. Based on some internet research, this was not simply a case of AT40 deciding to fade the song early on their own, but was a legitimate promotional version serviced to AM pop stations. In that time period, it was common for promotional versions of 45s sent to radio stations to have the A-side on both sides of the record, sometimes with one side in stereo and one side folded down to mono for AM airplay. As I understand it, commercial 45s and the stereo side of promotional 45s had the full-length album version, while the early fade was on the mono side of promotional 45s.
My initial reaction was that this version of the song is kind of pointless. I get that they wanted to reduce the song's length, but this was a pretty ham-handed way to do it. You miss the final verse that brings the song's "story" to a conclusion, as well as the entire guitar solo, which is usually a key element of any Led Zeppelin song.
On the other hand, I have to admit that the full-length track just doesn't lend itself well to this type of editing. To edit it down, they were going to have to deconstruct it a bit. The short version needs to be judged on its own merits, as if you've never heard the long version. From that persepctive, it makes a little more sense. The lyrics that they left in do work coherently together. And fading the song out when they did, in the fast percussion sequence, turns that sequence into kind of an instrumental outro. I can see some pop stations that would have turned their noses up at the full-length version ("too long, too meandering, not catchy enough") giving this version a spin. Did Casey typically play this version, or did he play the full-length version other weeks?
There may have been another factor at work here. Led Zeppelin was obviously a very album-oriented group, and didn't often have big hit singles. But when the In Through The Out Door album was released in the fall of 1979, it's my understanding that the song "All My Love" received heavy airplay on Top 40 stations despite the fact that it was never released as a single, so much so that it was probably one of the band's most succesful songs ever at Top 40 radio. It was ineligible to chart in Billboard because it wasn't out as a single, but it reached #10 in Radio & Records. Against this backdrop, "Fool In The Rain" was probably a higher-profile release with Top 40 stations than any Led Zeppelin single had been in several years. This may have prompted their management to go the extra mile in servicing these stations with a special version that they might find more appealing than the album version.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 14, 2012 18:06:22 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum. You started out with a bang. No, AT40 never played the album version of "Fool in the Rain". To me, that is a mistake seeing that the show was 4 hours long. Wasting time playing all of last week's top 3 instead of using it to play an album version of a song like that make no sense IMO. Little did they know that it would be thier last top 40 hit and it was their first top 20(well almost) hit in 6 years. But yes "All My Love" is considered an even bigger hit and the R&R chart data corroborates that.
As to your comment that "making love" in a lyric was controversial. Really? A song called "Feel Like Making Love" hit #1 six years earlier and a similarly titled song by Bad Company made the top 5 five years earlier.
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Post by bandit73 on Mar 14, 2012 23:45:35 GMT -5
1) For The Dirt Band's "An American Dream", he played a version that replaced the line "sandy beaches, making love every night" with "sandy beaches, drinking rum every night". Does anyone know where this version comes from? Did Casey play it every week? Was the 45 like that, or is this some kind of promotional radio edit? I wouldn't have thought that the phrase "making love" would have been particularly controversial even in 1980. I've NEVER heard it say "making love every night." I always remember it saying "drinking rum", because I used to make up parody lyrics for it that said "chewing gum every night." |
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