https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 06 May 2026 22:01:20 +0000 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:07:53 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2695 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=51027&title=jody-watleyfriends#51027 Author: aaronk
Subject: 2695
Posted: 21 January 2019 at 7:07pm

I'll have to pull out my HitDisc to confirm, but the TM database says
"w/o rap" and only credits Jody Watley as the artist. ]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:07:53 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=51027&title=jody-watleyfriends#51027 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=51020&title=jody-watleyfriends#51020 Author: Ron S
Subject: 2695
Posted: 21 January 2019 at 5:22pm

aaronk wrote: Well, I may have just answered my own question. TM Century issued a "w/o rap" version on HitDisc. I have an mp3 of this version, and I just gave it a listen. In place of the first Rakim verse is an additional verse by Jody Watley: They say they'll be with you through all times of thick and thin Assure that you rely upon the days that life gets rough There to wipe your tears away from that new heartbreak (spoken) But when it happens, you can't find 'em / Where are your friends? Then there is another chorus, followed by an instrumental segment with a bunch of DJ scratching, after which it cuts out Rakim's second rap verse and goes the final choruses. I scoured the Internet in hopes of finding out where this version originates from, but I came up with nothing. Anyone know?

Does the listing say Friends only or does it say no rap next to it. I found a
copy of it but it only says Friends with a run time of 4:01]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:22:58 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=51020&title=jody-watleyfriends#51020 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=43879&title=jody-watleyfriends#43879 Author: aaronk
Subject: 2695
Posted: 18 June 2015 at 9:41pm

Well, I may have just answered my own question. TM Century issued a "w/o rap" version on HitDisc. I have an mp3 of this version, and I just gave it a listen. In place of the first Rakim verse is an additional verse by Jody Watley:

They say they'll be with you through all times of thick and thin
Assure that you rely upon the days that life gets rough
There to wipe your tears away from that new heartbreak
(spoken) But when it happens, you can't find 'em / Where are your friends?

Then there is another chorus, followed by an instrumental segment with a bunch of DJ scratching, after which it cuts out Rakim's second rap verse and goes the final choruses.

I scoured the Internet in hopes of finding out where this version originates from, but I came up with nothing. Anyone know?

Edited by aaronk]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:41:08 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=43879&title=jody-watleyfriends#43879 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=43878&title=jody-watleyfriends#43878 Author: aaronk
Subject: 2695
Posted: 18 June 2015 at 9:11pm

Does anyone recall hearing a "no rap" version of "Friends" on the radio back in 1989? Seems like this song would've been the perfect candidate for that, but maybe even the "vanilla" top 40 stations played it with rap.]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:11:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=43878&title=jody-watleyfriends#43878 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=29371&title=jody-watleyfriends#29371 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 2695
Posted: 27 February 2011 at 1:57pm

Here are editing instructions to recreate the 7" version
from the 4:29 LP version:

My timings are from the The Best Of Jody Watley 20th
Century Masters The Millennium Collection (MCA 088
112 395-2, released 2000):

Keep 0:00.0 to 2:55.3 of the LP version.
Edit on a downbeat.
Remove the 32 beats from 2:55.3 to 3:14.5 of the LP
version. The edit will cut out the 32 beats before the
rapped word "Used" on the downbeat.
Keep 3:14.5 to 4:32.2 (end) of the LP version.

Your mixdown will run 4:10 with one edit at 2:55.3.]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:57:13 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=29371&title=jody-watleyfriends#29371 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=19238&title=jody-watleyfriends#19238 Author: edtop40
Subject: 2695
Posted: 11 October 2008 at 8:49am

my commercial cassingle issed as mca 53660 does not state a version or run time but is identical to the version listed as track one on jim's and mine promo cd single

promo CD single (CD45-17864) has the following:

1-(7" Version) (listed & actual 4:09)
2-(Radio Edit) (listed 5:20; actual 5:09)
3-(12" Version) (listed 8:10; actual 8:04)

i haven't obtained the commercial 45 yet to compare that to the cassingle, but i'm in the process











Edited by edtop40]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:49:47 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=19238&title=jody-watleyfriends#19238 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=19235&title=jody-watleyfriends#19235 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 2695
Posted: 11 October 2008 at 8:29am

Jim's promo CD single info for Jody Watley with Eric B. & Rakim's "Friends" is now noted in the database. I thought I'd also add that commercial copies of this 45 run 4:10. (Timing info compliments of abagon. The printed record label time is 4:09.) ]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:29:58 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=19235&title=jody-watleyfriends#19235 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=12574&title=jody-watleyfriends#12574 Author: jimct
Subject: 2695
Posted: 12 November 2007 at 2:24am

My promo CD single (CD45-17864) has the following:

1-(7" Version) (listed & actual 4:09)
2-(Radio Edit) (listed 5:20; actual 5:09)
3-(12" Version) (listed 8:10; actual 8:04) ]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:24:05 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2695&PID=12574&title=jody-watleyfriends#12574