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If there weren't two distinct cassette (or 7") single releases, I'm wondering if there were 2 promo CD pressings...
It looks as though some but not all pressings of the promo CD came with an affixed sticker stating "REMIX".
There's only one catalog number for the "Love Takes Time" promo CD (as far as I can tell), and it's been confirmed by aaronk that his promo CD has the low whistle mix. This could always be as simple as people changing jewel boxes and thereby removing the sticker, but I wonder if midway through promotion Columbia switched the mix on the CD to the more common loud whistle version and just stuck a sticker on the case indicating it was the new remix.
Since this was only the second single and a last minute addition to her debut album, this could have all taken place before the commercial single and "corrected" album ever hit store shelves.
Edited by Underground Dub on 06 August 2015 at 7:45pm
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Hmm, good point. Aaron, does yours have a "Remix"
sticker on the cover? I sure wish I still had mine...
mine did have the Remix sticker.
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80smusicfreak wrote:
| MARIAH CAREY - "Mariah Carey" (digipak edition) (U.S. CD) In the Discogs photo, note that the hype sticker on the front cover actually has the album's original "45202" catalog no. at the bottom, which tells me the digipak edition was issued simultaneously w/ the standard jewel-case version that Underground Dub found (read: Columbia was too lazy to print up unique hype stickers for the collector's edition, so they just used the same ones they put on the regulars); perhaps he can confirm that the sticker does indeed match the one on his copy??? |
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Thanks for all of the deets, 90smusicfreak. =)
Believe it or not, the sticker that takes up nearly a fourth of the jewel case edition is completely different. It's a clear, square sticker with rounded edges and gold text that states:
"THE DEBUT RELEASE
FEATURING
VISION OF LOVE
THERE'S GOT TO BE
A WAY
I DON'T WANNA CRY
SOMEDAY
LOVE TAKES TIME
CK 4502-52"
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The promo copy I have does not have a "REMIX" sticker on the jewel case, and I can say for certain that it's in the original case. It looks exactly like this copy on Discogs: Love Takes Time US Promo CD.
The matrix number on my CD only has "DISP-000662 1." There are no other numbers in the matrix. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a copy that has the remix.
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I edited my post on page 1, after seeing Ed's confirmation about which version is on his cassette single. I also have the US 7" single, and it has the louder whistle part, which means it matches Ed's cassette single.
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I'm looking at pictures of the promo CD on eBay with the "Remix" sticker on the front. There is currently one that is active and one that has ended, and I can see that in the matrix number, instead of a "1" there is a "2." Surely, this "Remix" promo CD has the version with the louder whistling. Now, if anyone wants to buy it for me, my birthday is coming up next month...
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Aaron sent me a copy of the original (quiet whistle) mix, and I already had the remix (loud whistle) on the full-length Mariah Carey CD.
I did a quick comparison between the two mixes, and they're much closer than I expected. This was not a drastic overhaul by any means.
I was hoping that that would both use a common digital transfer, so that I could basically subtract one from the other to determine what the differences are. (You can actually do that for Crowded House's CD single for "Better Be Home Soon" - the LP and single mixes completely cancel except for added effects, like reverb on the vocals. It's pretty neat.) Didn't work out for "Love Takes Time", though.
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Mariah was one of my favorite '90s artists so I'm fascinated with this thread!
Just in case anyone's interested, there were two pressings of the vinyl LP as well. I bought mine in Toronto in July 1990 but it's a US pressing. It doesn't have "Love Takes Time" listed on the cover but it's on there, and the lettering is in gold. It has a similar sticker as described upthread that was on the CD.
A friend and I went to a record show last year and he picked up a copy of the album, but it was the later pressing with white lettering and "Love Takes Time" was listed on the cover. Until my friend picked up the album, I always thought there was just one pressing of the LP since vinyl wasn't a priority with the labels in 1990. If the original CD is valuable, I wonder what the vinyl would be worth...
It's interesting to think how history might have been different if "Love Takes Time" was held for the second album. I always thought there was another song or two on the debut that could have been a single, and maybe the second album would have been bigger.
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aaronk wrote:
| With only two recent posts about '90s music, I'm sort of leaning toward "feeble attempt to make yourself look younger." :-) Admittedly, though, the above post by you does have some good information. Thanks for adding to the discussion! |
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Aw, you mean we can't grandfather in my post on Hi-Five, where I assisted both edtop40 (detailed info on two promo CD singles he wanted to know about) & Pat (missing parent album in db for one of those same songs) here, only two weeks before I helped you w/ Montell Jordan??? ;-)
Yes, the '80s will always be my #1 decade for music, for sure, but the '70s are actually a very close second. After that, there's a bit of a drop-off for me, but I'd rank the '90s third. No question there was still some good stuff out there in the early to mid '90s, but my general interest was definitely waning by the end of the decade. Between cassette & CD, I must have about 2,000 albums from the '90s, though, so if I liked it, I usually still bought it, as well as maxi-singles (if they were commercially available, like w/ MJ)...
Ah, but as "80smusicfreak", I will now officially retreat back to the "Me Decade", and spin this must-play '80s song of the day - one of the best singles from that decade that failed to crack the pop charts, IMHO (actually got to meet the drummer, after these guys split up & he was recruited into another band):
"I look in your eyes/
You were lookin' at my face/
Do we see clearly?/
Is it all 20/20 vision?/
Oh yeah..."
(clues: 1980; male vocals)
Rock on, guys! :-)
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edtop40 wrote:
| 80smusicfreak--i moved to long island in 1993 and lived in syosset and plainview for the last 22 years, about 15 mins from huntington, small f*in world!! |
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Syosset/Plainview, eh??? I was always surprised there was never a record store in Syosset, even during the peak of music retail in the early to mid '90s. Knowing the size & scope of your collection, ed, there is little doubt in my mind that you & I must've crossed paths at some of those LI record stores in the '90s, and just didn't know it at the time! As I believe I've said here at least once before, I RECOGNIZE the price stickers on your vinyl 45s & cassette singles (or their picture sleeves) and can actually tell where you found them when you've posted photos here, lol. If it was in Nassau or Suffolk Cos., I was a regular at that store for those 10 years (1991-2001) - I hit 'em all! In fact, I still have all my old file folders where I kept my collection of business cards, store lists, and photocopies from the yellow pages of all the NYC area telephone directories. At well over 100 stores, there were so many in Manhattan alone back in the '90s that every year I used to take highlighter pens and color-code the alphabetical listings in the yellow pages by geographic location, in order to make the most of my day-long buying trips into "the city" - let's see, yellow was Greenwich Village, blue was Chelsea, orange was Midtown, green was the Upper West Side, etc., etc. Post-midnight trips out of Penn Station on the LIRR back to Huntington (w/ a stop in Syosset on that same line, of course) were not uncommon - especially if I was going to a concert as well. Have still seen more shows at the Westbury Music Fair (or whatever they call it now) than any other venue (20+). Lots of memories from that period, to be sure... :-)
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80smusicfreak wrote:
"I look in your eyes/
You were lookin' at my face/
Do we see clearly?/
Is it all 20/20 vision?/
Oh yeah..."
(clues: 1980; male vocals)
Rock on, guys! :-) |
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"She Talks In Stereo" by Gary Myrick & The Figures.
Okay, what do I win???
BTW, I always thought the 1970s was the "Me" decade.
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Paul Haney wrote:
80smusicfreak wrote:
"I look in your eyes/
You were lookin' at my face/
Do we see clearly?/
Is it all 20/20 vision?/
Oh yeah..."
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Rock on, guys! :-) |
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"She Talks In Stereo" by Gary Myrick & The Figures.
Okay, what do I win??? |
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Yes, you got it first again, Paul! (I know this is the second or third time now, when I've posted these lyric quizzes.) :-) Didn't have a prize in mind, other than sharing some great "lost" tunes, but it's nice to see folks taking a stab at these...
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I think the term might've been invented in the '70s, but I've often heard it applied to the '80s. Hmmm, might have to look into that some more...
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aaronk wrote:
| I'm looking at pictures of the promo CD on eBay with the "Remix" sticker on the front. There is currently one that is active and one that has ended, and I can see that in the matrix number, instead of a "1" there is a "2." Surely, this "Remix" promo CD has the version with the louder whistling. Now, if anyone wants to buy it for me, my birthday is coming up next month... |
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Yea I don't have $149 to find out if it does have the louder whistling. Did you ever get this promo Aaron? Anyone here have it and can confirm that its the version with the louder whistling?
https://www.discogs.com/Mariah-Carey-Love-Takes-Time-Remix/r elease/13235954
Edited by PopArchivist on 02 April 2021 at 5:01pm
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