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80smusicfreak wrote:
| ...everyone here seems to be forgetting that it was actually the B-side of the group's very first commercial single, "Hold My Hand" (Atlantic 87230), all the way back in the Fall of '94 |
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I didn't forget; I was simply saying that it probably should have been included on the album and promoted as a single to radio. By the time it was getting a significant amount of airplay, though, Fairweather Johnson had already been out for several months. Hindsight is 20/20.
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I thought the back story of Lauryn Hill's version of Can't Take My Eyes
Off Of You was that she recorded it solely for the Mel Gibson / Julia
Roberts film Conspiracy Theory (hence the shoutout of the films title
during the tracks intro) but the soundtrack album rights actually went to
TVT not Sony so it wasn't included there nor could Sony officially
promote it. Since there had been some mild buzz around the song
since radio stations were already playing copies sourced from the film it
was placed onto Miseducation as a hidden track at the end. Once the
album was released Top 40 radio on its own took the song to 35 on the
airplay side. Lost Ones was put on street mix tapes prior to the album
release to create buzz, the official first worked single from the set was
Doo Wop That Thing. I think this is everything as explained back in
Billboard circa 1998 but I haven't pulled those magazines out in ages.
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That actually makes a lot of sense, Glenpwood. I have never seen the
movie, but knowing it was included explains the song's references to
"conspiracy theory" in the intro and outro ad libs.
Edited by aaronk on 01 December 2013 at 8:15pm
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jimct wrote:
I always found
*very* few music collectors working in radio over the
years (like I was). As
a result, I'm sure no one at the station said back in
1975, "Why are they
releasing 'Black Water' as a 45 again?" Because none of
them ever knew it
was an earlier single's B-side. Although this scenario
was 20+ years
before the "I Go Blind" situation, their circumstances
here are somewhat
similar, from a "radio had no idea of a song's previous,
stock B-side"
backstory.
I just can't emphasize enough how narrow-focused/on point
the record
labels always were with us. They would *only* discuss the
label's top
priority songs for us to add that week - ones they'd
already provided us
with copies of, obviously - B-sides just never came up.
And if a label isn't
"working us" on a song, we're not even thinking about it.
Therefore, as the
"Hold My Hand" B-side, "I Go Blind" received NO promotion
at that time.
We had no copy of it. Atlantic couldn't care less about
it. End of story. And
neither did Reprise, in '95. Aaron also is correct when
he mentions that
"Good Intentions" by Toad The Wet Sprocket was both the P
CD S issued,
and was the track they worked to Top 40 radio from the
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Very true. Don't forget that radio stations were
serviced with CD singles of songs that were never
released that way commercially. Pretty hard to tell what
was and wasn't a commercial single (much less what the
"B" side was), especially since even in the mid-90s not
many stores stocked singles anymore.
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AIRPLAY HITS WITHOUT PROMO CD SINGLES:
Alanis Morissette "Head Over Feet" (#1 R&R)
Alanis Morissette "Uninvited" (#1 R&R)
Counting Crows "Einstein On The Beach" (#45 BB - #1 Modern Rock)
Counting Crows "Rain King" (#22 R&R)
Garbage "#1 Crush" (#29 BB - #34 R&R - #1 Modern Rock)
Garth Brooks "Hard Luck Woman" (#26 R&R)
Green Day "She" (#41 BB - #4 Modern Rock)
Hootie & The Blowfish "I Go Blind" (#13 BB - #24 R&R)
Janet Jackson "Where Are You Now" (#30 BB)
Live "All Over You" (#33 BB)
Pearl Jam "Better Man" (#12 BB - #24 R&R)
Stone Temple Pilots "Big Empty" (#35 R&R)
I've updated the list above to include "Rain King" by Counting Crows. It was released commercially and promotionally in other countries, but apparently it was an album cut only in the US (even for radio).
UPDATED 12/29/15: Added "Hard Luck Woman" by Garth Brooks to the list. I haven't been able to find any trace of a promo CD single for this one--just the full-length Kiss tribute album, which was likely the source for radio.
UPDATED 3/25/18: Added "She" by Green Day & "#1 Crush" by Garbage.
Edited by aaronk on 25 March 2018 at 10:25am
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I've enjoyed reading through this thread, especially the drama over "I Go Blind".
Though this isn't a nineties song, are any of the gurus here able to shed light on the Janet Jackson song "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)"?
I've heard it many times on the radio since way back in the eighties (primarily on R&B stations), yet there doesn't seem to be any evidence of a promotional single or an airplay chart entry unlike 1993's "Where Are You Now".
Anyone able to help?
Edited by Underground Dub on 02 August 2015 at 11:50pm
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