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aaronk
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Here's one where my book does not distinguish between the LP Version and 45 Version... Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step."
The 45 uses a far superior remixed version, which has been available on a couple of CDs, including Bobby Brown's "Greatest Hits" and New Edition's "All The Number Ones." (New Edition Solo Hits uses the LP Version.)
However, I remember my local top 40 station (and I think the video) using the version "with rap," which was the same mix but about 45 seconds longer. To my knowledge, this version was on the b-side to the 45, and I believe it has yet to appear on a full-length domestic CD. In fact, I think the only source on CD for the "with rap" version is the US promo single (which I have never seen) and some hard-to-find import singles.
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Huh! I didn't know that the "No rap" version was the A-side. Very interesting... and strange, since the rap version was the video mix. Now that I think about it, seems like I did know that at one point, but I'd forgotten over the years.
I do have it on the original promo CD single (MCA CD 45 17768). On the promo they don't even indicate "rap" or "no rap." The tracks are called:
1. Every Little Step (actual 3:56, incorrectly listed as 4:02) [this is the no rap remix]
2. Every Little Step (Radio Edit - actual 4:44, incorrectly listed as 4:51) [rap version]
3. Every Little Step (Extended Version - actual 7:44, incorrectly listed as 7:550
I agree that the 45 mix is better overall, but one thing I hate about it is it forgoes the perfectly good second verse from the LP version and sustitutes a different take of the first verse -- so the first and second verses are lyrically the same. Very bizarre choice. Even the extended remix does not have the second verse from the LP!
Anyway, I just listened, and it's not possible to recreate the "no rap" version from the standard "rap" version. Right at the point where the rap would come in, it continues "We'll be together, girl," which segues into that strange "cobra flute" sounds.
I also have the Extended Version on a strange item I got from Japan called the "Bobby Brown Re-mix Box." It's a gold anodized metal box, issued in 1990, holding 5-inch CD reproductions of all the 12" singles from his first album, plus "On Our Own" and an interview disc. They're all in card picture card sleeves, reproductions of the 12" single sleeves, and the discs match what was on the Japanese 12" singles. The 45 versions aren't on any of the CDs in the box, but what's interesting is that, in addition to the extended versions, several of them have EDITS of the dance remixes that to my knowledge were unissued elsewhere on CD. "My Prerogative," "Roni," and "On Our Own" all have remixed Radio Edits.
The song "Don't Be Cruel" was not remixed when first released, but the UK edition of "Dance -- Ya Know It" contained a remix of the song that was not on the US version, and a CD single was released in the UK that had an edit of that.
Edited by Brian W. on 29 June 2005 at 1:50am
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As the run time info:
The actual 45 running time is (3:55), the listed time is "4:02" on the record label. (MCA 53618)
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If anyone here can figure this out, I seem to have a version of Every Little Step that starts out with regular beats unlike the single version and you hear Bobby say the Good Lovin' line but then it completely omits the "Now, Now calm down love!" in the regular single version and runs 3:56. I have had this version in the my collection for some time just wanted to identify it properly.
This is the exact version I have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALxxkcziA9o
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aaronk
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That's the album version.
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