https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:44:56 +0000 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:38:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=368 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=368&PID=66183&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#66183 Author: aaronk
Subject: 368
Posted: 23 March 2025 at 8:38am

I'll have a look to see if I have this CD at storage if nobody else provides the info first.]]> Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:38:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=66183&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#66183 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=66176&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#66176 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 368
Posted: 22 March 2025 at 11:52pm

I can now also officially confirm that commercial 45 copies of "Opposites Attract" by Paula Abdul (with The Wild Pair) states “7-Inch Version” on the record label, yet is the same as the "Derrick Rap Edit" and has an actual and printed run time of 3:45.

By the way, is anyone able to check and verify if the lone database CD running 3:36 that currently has a “neither the 45 nor LP version” comment is actually the 3:37 “radio edit” found on one of the promo CD single releases?]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:52:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=66176&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#66176 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=41286&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#41286 Author: edtop40
Subject: 368
Posted: 02 May 2014 at 12:37pm

my commercial cassingle issued as virgin 99158 contains the
tracks

1-opposites attract (7")(duet with the wild pair) (rap by
derrick delite from the soul purpose) (listed and actual of
3:45)
2-one or the other (lp version) (listed and actual of 4:10)]]> Fri, 02 May 2014 12:37:09 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=41286&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#41286 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=41283&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#41283 Author: jimct
Subject: 368
Posted: 02 May 2014 at 11:47am

First off, Gene, sorry I apparently overlooked your 1/2012 question to me.
Personally, I stopped buying/collecting commercial copies at the end of
1989, coinciding with the end of reliably-released 45RPM singles. So I
don't know the answer, as this song came out in 1990, and I had the
version I wanted on the promo CD single. Ed may have its cassette single
details....

Aaron briefly touched on parts of his 12" single earlier in the thread. I only
own a stock 12" single (Virgin 0-96528), and here are the particulars:

A Side:
1-(Street Mix) (listed 4:28)
2-(12" Mix) (listed 5:40)
3-(Dub Version) (listed 6:25)

B Side:
1-Magnetic Mix (listed 4:53)
2-Club Mix (listed 6:01)
3-Party Dub (listed 3:09)

Pat currently has 2 (6:47) "remixed" versions in his db. While both are
likely the "Shut Up And Dance" Dance Remixes CD version, I thought it
might still be useful to also list the 6 versions found on my 12".

Edited by jimct]]> Fri, 02 May 2014 11:47:03 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=41283&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#41283 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=32482&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#32482 Author: NightAire
Subject: 368
Posted: 12 January 2012 at 3:07am

Jim, do you know if the radio edit has ever been commercially released, or if it can be cut together from the various versions available?

I just loaded up the "Derrick Rap Edit" and had a hard time hearing where you could cut in the opening to drop the rap... I'm suspecting they just dropped his track or something similar...]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:07:05 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=32482&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#32482 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=23018&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#23018 Author: Steve Sharp
Subject: 368
Posted: 26 July 2009 at 8:52am

I have the promo CD single (PRCD 2695), which has three cuts:

1) 7" - 3:45 (listed)
2) street - 4:25 (listed)
3) magnetic - 4:01 (listed)

I haven't listened to it in ages, and have never done "actual times" (I wouldn't know what db qualifies as silence in order to calculate it), but I can send any of these for inspection, if that will help.

Nowhere on the disc is Derrick Delight mentioned, but I'm certain his rap is on the first two tracks of this single. However, I recall him being named as The Wild Pair, and having a brief attempt at a solo career on Paula Abdul's offshoot record label, administered by Virgin (to which she was signed as an artist). It's kinda hard to establish yourself as an artist when your first appearance in a music video is as a cartoon cat. ...Unless you want to be that for your entire career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweiQukBM_k
]]> Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:52:01 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=23018&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#23018 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=23002&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#23002 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 368
Posted: 24 July 2009 at 5:10am

Thanks, Brian!

I also thought I'd pass along one more thing... At the moment, the database states the following comment for "Opposites Attract":

(dj copies of this cd single run (3:45) the "Derrick rap edit" and (3:37) the "radio edit")

According to my good friend Ed, the commercial cassette single has a run time of 3:45. Pat, to help lessen confusion, you might also want to note in the database that the "Derrick Rap Edit" on the promo CD single is the same as the commercial single verson.

Edited by Todd Ireland]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:10:37 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=23002&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#23002 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=22880&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#22880 Author: Brian W.
Subject: 368
Posted: 09 July 2009 at 11:13am

Todd Ireland wrote: Does anyone know if the commercial 45 version, which crapfromthepast reports is labeled as '7" Version' and has an actual and printed run time of 3:45, is the same as the "Derrick Rap Edit" appearing on the promo CD single?

Yes, it is. I have a Canadian various artists promo from 1990 that also calls it "Derrick Rap Edit," so I think that's the official name of the 45 version. That CD also has the Radio Edit, which is the same mix without the rap, so it has the same two versions as Jim's.

Edited by Brian W.]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:13:03 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=22880&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#22880 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=22879&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#22879 Author: abagon
Subject: 368
Posted: 09 July 2009 at 7:31am

I don't have the promo CD single, but there is the description of "Rap by Derrick Delite" on the commercial 45's record label.
Please see the scan of the "OPPOSITES ATTRACT" record label.

--abagon



Edited by abagon]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:31:24 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=22879&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#22879 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=22843&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#22843 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 368
Posted: 07 July 2009 at 2:55pm

Does anyone know if the commercial 45 version, which crapfromthepast reports is labeled as '7" Version' and has an actual and printed run time of 3:45, is the same as the "Derrick Rap Edit" appearing on the promo CD single? ]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:55:34 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=368&PID=22843&title=paula-abdul-opposites-attract#22843