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westofrome
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In working on my 80s Billboard Hot 100 + Bubbling Under
Playlist, I ran into a tricky one: Vaughan Mason & Crew's
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll (#81 Pop/#5 R&B/#38 Dance in
1980).
On the album, 7", and 12", the track was always broken up
into Parts 1 and 2, but each format had different lengths
for each as such (all info via Discogs):
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll LP(Brunswick, BL 754221, 1980)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll I (3:40)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll II (5:14)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll 12" (Brunswick – DISCO 211,
1979)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll I (7:30)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll II (7:10)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll Promo 7" (Brunswick – BL 55548,
1979)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll I (3:30)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll II (3:30)
This song got another release in 2005 due to its
inclusion in the soundtrack of the movie Roll Bounce, for
the first time without two different parts, and yet
another runtime:
Various – Roll Bounce: The Album (Sanctuary Urban –
06076-87544-2, Music World Entertainment (2) – 06076-
87544-2, Fox Music – 06076-87544-2, Fox Searchlight
Pictures – 06076-87544-2, 2005)
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll (5:29)
This 5:29 version (albeit as a single, not as part of the
Roll Bounce soundtrack) is currently the only version
available on streaming services.
Can anyone speak to the 2005 5:29 edit and how it
compares to various other versions on the original 1979-
1980 releases? I'm trying to limit my playlist to
versions that charted at the time or at least were the
contemporaneous album version - so a re-edit 25 years
later is kinda pushing it - but would like to know if
this is at least an edit of the original recording.
Thanks!
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Good questions!
I can't answer your question directly, but I can give you some data points, based on what I have.
There's a YouTube video of the Brunswick 12" single being played, which is helpful. It runs 7:31 here (until surface noise overtakes the music).
It also starts on a snare, not a downbeat. If you count out beats as 1-2-3-4, with 1 falling on the usual downbeat, then the 12 inch single version starts on beat 2. Weird.
The version on Grand 12 Inches Vol. 6 Disc 3 (2009) runs 7:33, and adds in a downbeat at the very beginning of the song so that it starts on beat 1 of 1-2-3-4. DJs like starting on the downbeat, so it makes sense from a dance floor point of view. Aside from the added downbeat at the beginning, it otherwise matches the 12" single version.
The version on Dance Classics Vol. 44 (2011) exactly matches the version on Grand 12 Inches Vol. 6 Disc 3. To my ears, it sounds like it's the same analog transfer as Grand, with maybe just a tiny bit of added noise reduction.
The version on Rhino's Street Jams Back 2 The Old Skool Part 3 (1996) includes the intro as it appears on the 12" single, starting on beat 2 of 1-2-3-4. It's an early fade of the 12" single, running 6:50.
I have a version on Mars Entertainment's Monster Jams (1999) includes the intro as it appears on the 12" single, starting on beat 2 of 1-2-3-4. It's an edit of the 12" single, cutting out 128 beats at starting at about 4:18. The end of the edit goes right into a snare drum fill. This version fades even earlier than Street Jams. The total track length is 5:27. I don't know if that's the same version that's on the streaming services.
Hope that helps a bit.
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