https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:20:28 +0000 Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:53:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4970 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=4970&PID=66311&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#66311 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4970
Posted: 05 April 2025 at 9:53am

No, I don't think that version was ever released anywhere other than on the music video.]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:53:06 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=66311&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#66311 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=66310&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#66310 Author: chendagam
Subject: 4970
Posted: 05 April 2025 at 9:05am

Has this mystery ever been solved? Has the MTV video version with all the sound effects over some of the words been released other than the video?]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:05:41 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=66310&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#66310 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=63276&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#63276 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4970
Posted: 11 July 2023 at 9:21pm

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. ]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2023 21:21:32 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=63276&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#63276 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=63269&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#63269 Author: NightAire
Subject: 4970
Posted: 10 July 2023 at 3:13pm

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?]]> Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:13:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=63269&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#63269 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=23714&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#23714 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4970
Posted: 09 September 2009 at 2:29pm

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.]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:29:20 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=23714&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#23714 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=23702&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#23702 Author: Steve Sharp
Subject: 4970
Posted: 08 September 2009 at 5:57pm

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]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:57:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=23702&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#23702 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=23675&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#23675 Author: edtop40
Subject: 4970
Posted: 07 September 2009 at 2:38pm

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]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:38:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=23675&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#23675 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=22430&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#22430 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4970
Posted: 01 June 2009 at 11:32am

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.]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:32:22 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=22430&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#22430 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=22424&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#22424 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 4970
Posted: 01 June 2009 at 6:17am

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.]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:17:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=22424&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#22424 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=22423&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#22423 Author: jimct
Subject: 4970
Posted: 01 June 2009 at 6:06am

aaronk wrote: I've looked, but I've never been able to find a copy of the promo CD single.

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)

Edited by jimct]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:06:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4970&PID=22423&title=digital-underground-the-humpty-dance#22423