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radiofan16 MusicFan
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Posted: 31 December 2016 at 10:54pm | IP Logged
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Two Promo CDs were released for this one, his first single from his 1996
comeback album "Older", on the new Dreamworks Records.
George Michael-Jesus To A Child
Dreamworks Records – PRO-CD-4786
1 Jesus To A Child (Radio Edit) 6:04
2 Jesus To A Child (LP Version) 6:50
George Michael-Jesus To A Child
Dreamworks Records – PRO-CD-4818
1 Jesus To A Child (Special Radio Edit) 4:15
Were radio stations complaining about the length? Prompting the second
version. Any radio people care to chime in?
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eriejwg MusicFan
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Posted: 01 January 2017 at 1:04pm | IP Logged
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Having once worked in radio, my guess would have been
length. Perhaps, some stations complained one way or the
other and said, if the song was shorter in length, they
might add it. So, the label issued the special edit.
JimCT might have more of an insight.
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aaronk Admin Group
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Posted: 01 January 2017 at 1:16pm | IP Logged
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I was working in top 40 radio at the time, and I don't remember our station playing the song for more than a couple weeks. It peaked at #18 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop chart, and it was only on the chart for 7 weeks. Complaints or not, I think John is correct that it was an attempt to get stations to play it.
__________________ Aaron Kannowski
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Smokin' TomGary MusicFan
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There is also a UK promo VSCDXJ 1571 single track with a listed time of 6:50.
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radiofan16 MusicFan
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Posted: 04 April 2017 at 1:06am | IP Logged
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Bumping this up so JimCT can answer.
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