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Todd Ireland
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Posted: 13 March 2025 at 3:08pm | IP Logged Quote Todd Ireland

I think it'll do for now, Aaron. It's just unfortunate how the early '90s, in particular, are such a headache for collecting Top 40 music due to how many hits were released on as many as six(!) commercial single formats (vinyl 45, cassette single, maxi-cassette single, CD single, maxi-CD single, and 12" single), in addition to an album release, and record labels were clearly unconcerned with any sense of version uniformity. Contrast that to how just a few years previously, up until 1987, singles were all released on just one format, the vinyl 45 (or two at the most if there was a 12" single counterpart). But, hey, it is what it is, and we'll get it all figured out. Fortunately, things have come back around full circle, and if there's one thing to be thankful about Top 40 music in more modern times, it's the fact that most songs are now only made available in one "definitive" version due to the sharp decline in album releases, radio edits, and remixes in general!

Anyway, I'm going to hold off on further commenting on messy cases like "Baby Baby" until we have the new database design in place. Once I see the new platform in action, then I may have different thoughts and opinions on how we could possibly address these multi-format-multi-version releases going forward.
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Posted: 13 March 2025 at 4:53pm | IP Logged Quote aaronk

Sounds good, Todd. Yes, the '90s can be tricky to sort out, but I think the labels were purposely avoiding uniformity. That way, we would buy the same song on multiple formats, over and over again! In other cases, the labels purposely didn't release any single configurations to entice us into buying the whole album.

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I believe that continuing to place an emphasis on making 45/LP/DJ versions/lengths on CD very readily identifiable for database users should remain our top priority.

I absoutely agree with you here. If we can keep the database CDs labeled in a way that is simple and easy to understand, I'm all in. I don't know exactly what that should look like, and I'm open to suggestions. For the time being, using the actual version names in recent updates (Taylor Dayne, Expose, Amy Grant) is at least enough information to ID what's on those discs.

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Posted: 14 March 2025 at 10:18pm | IP Logged Quote AaronsAmazing

In Australia, the "hit version" was this edit of the No Getting Over You remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxG8GAdIlCE

I heard this edit (with a short instrumental intro) on Mix 106.3 a few years
ago, and it appears to have been used on the commercial 45/MC/CD
releases here.
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Posted: 15 March 2025 at 4:59pm | IP Logged Quote Scanner

Thanks for your feedback on the "Damnit, you're mine" lyric.
It's funny that there are so many different interpretations
of what she is singing and nothing definitive online to
clarify this! I recall the "controversy" when this album
was released - a Christian singer recording secular music.
There was even a feature story about this on "NBC Nightly
News" then when the "Every Heartbeat" video was released
with a woman - gasp! - unbuttoning her top...even though she
was wearing another full layer underneath.
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aaronk wrote:

That's why in this case I think it's probably best to stick
with what the database (and book) has shown since the
beginning: no designation in cases where the "official
single version" (aka "45 version") is the same as the LP
version.


Aaron, I agree wholeheartedly here. Thanks!

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