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The video for "The Humpty Dance" contains a bunch of sound effects in place of some of the racier words and phrases. Does anyone know if this version was ever released on promo CD or vinyl? I've looked, but I've never been able to find a copy of the promo CD single. I do have a commercial CD single that contains the "Mini Hump Radio Mix," but this is just an early fade of the LP version (aka "Bonus Hump Mix" on the CD single).
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Our CHR wasn't allowed to play that one.
I always thought it was more sales than an airplay tune.
I recall Shadoe Stevens playing maybe a 90 second version when he hosted American Top 40.
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aaronk wrote:
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Aaron, based on the fact that, besides the "Mini Hump Radio Mix" you already own (which also appears on my promo CD single), and since the only other, non-instrumental version included on my promo CD single is the "Bonus Hump Mix" (that you've already determined to be the same as the LP version), I can say with 100% certainty that the "video version" you are looking for is not on here. FYI, for bwolfe, we did happen to play a "custom, more cleaned up version" of the song on-the-air at my Top 40 station quite a bit back in 1990. And, just for the record, since I already have it pulled out to help my buddy Aaron, here are the promo CD single's particulars:
Digital Underground-"The Humpty Dance" (TBCD 944 PRO)
1-Mini Hump Radio Mix (listed 4:40; actual 4:39)
2-Bonus Hump Mix (listed 6:28; actual 6:26)
3-Humpstrumental Mix (listed 3:16; actual 3:17)
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Just watched the video on YouTube. They even took out Burger King. The SFX, to me, sound a bit humorous. Kinda reminds me a little of the 'honked' version of "Ode To My Car" from Adam Sandler.
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Jim, thanks very much for your promo CD information! In all my years of collecting, I've never come across that disc. It appears that the commercial US CD single has exactly the same tracks as your promo, and they are also labeled the same way.
As a side note, Tommy Boy issued a promo CD sampler that included a "Squeaky Clean" version of "Freaks Of The Industry," which uses humorous sound effects much like the "Humpty Dance" video.
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my commercial cassingle issued as tommy boy 7944 states the version as the "mini-hump radio mix" with a stated run time on the cassingle as 4:40 and with no stated run time on the cardboard sleeve, but actually runs 4:41
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I have a Promo Only DVD with this song on it. I listened to it today because of this thread, and there's no lyrics edited at all - far as I can tell. "fat" "laid" and "Burger King" all appear, just as on the single. Where does this edited video originate from?
Edited by Steve Sharp on 08 September 2009 at 5:58pm
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Hey Steve, I just read your PM and replied to you. Please disregard my message, as it appears Promo Only has dubbed the uncensored version over the original audio track to the video.
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I thought I heard the edited version on the radio -- did I dream it, or do we think stations dubbed it on the video?
Has anyone who owns the promo CD single been able to confirm it is as unedited as the commercial single?
Was Walmart already requiring edited versions in 1989... and is it possible they would have stocked the edited version in digital form?
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The promo CD is definitely uncensored. As for retail singles, there wasn’t a
US retail CD single until it was reissued in 1993. I wasn’t looking for
cassette singles at that time, but as long as it didn’t have a PA sticker,
Walmart and K-Mart would usually carry it.
I doubt anyone in the corporate office listened to any of the releases to
check for content. For instance, K-Mart carried a “censored” version of “A
Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing” by Black Sheep. There was no PA sticker on it,
and it did remove at least a handful of tracks vs. the uncensored version.
The remaining tracks, however, were still uncensored, a few of which
include the f word.
As another example, “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest didn’t
carry a PA sticker when it first came out, but there are some tracks that
have explicit language. Walmart still carried it back then.
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