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Some info about the promo CD single originally posted by Todd in an earlier thread:
UB40 - HERE I AM (COME AND TAKE ME) (Virgin PRCD 3671)
1) Radio Edit - 3:17
2) Crossover 7" - 3:53
3) 12" Mix - 4:32
The Radio Edit also appears on the promo sampler Hitmakers Vol. 31, January 19, 1990, which is well over a year before it was actually a hit. "The Way You Do The Things You Do" was a hit in late 1990, and "Here I Am" was a hit in summer 1991 - failed the first time out and rereleased, perhaps?
I have the LP version (runs 4:00) on a promo CD called UB40 Best Of Sampler (Virgin DPRO-11057, 1995), which has five tracks from Best Of UB40 Volume One and six from Best Of UB40 Volume Two. I would assume that this is the version that actually appears on the Best Of UB40 Volume Two CD as well as Labour Of Love II.
Here are instructions for creating the Radio Edit from the LP version, based on my timings for the promo Best Of CD:
Keep 0:00.0-2:26.5 of the LP version.
Edit at the beginning of the 4-snare-hit drum fill.
Remove the 32 beats from 2:26.5-2:46.6.
Keep the 81 beats from 2:46.6-3:37.2.
Put a 24-beat fade from 3:22.2 (on the word "can") to 3:37.2 (empty downbeat).
Your mixdown will run 3:17.2, with an edit at 2:26.5 and a 24-beat fade from 3:02-3:17.
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crapfromthepast wrote:
| The Radio Edit also appears on the promo sampler Hitmakers Vol. 31, January 19, 1990, which is well over a year before it was actually a hit. "The Way You Do The Things You Do" was a hit in late 1990, and "Here I Am" was a hit in summer 1991 - failed the first time out and rereleased, perhaps? |
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According to Whitburn, the catalog number for this single was 99141. Virgin's U.S. distributor at the time was Atlantic, and this was part of a catalog number sequence that Atlantic used for all of its subsidiary and distributed labels. Like the sequences used for singles by other Warner Music labels from 1982 onward, it ran backwards, starting at 99999 and going in descending order.
Looking at the chart debut dates of other singles in the Atlantic 90000 sequence, catalog number 99141 would appear to have been assigned in late 1989. Most of the singles with numbers around there look like they were released in late '89 or early '90. 99140, for example, was "Swing The Mood" by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers. A couple of sources that I checked also show the Labour Of Love II album, from which this song was taken, as having a 1989 release date.
All of this seems consistent with the suggestion that "Here I Am" was out as a single sometime around early 1990, didn't chart, then was re-released after "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (which has a sequentially later catalog number than "Here I Am"), had become a hit. Does anyone know any of the backstory behind this?
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Topic: UB40 - "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)"
