C + C Music Factory - Here We Go

I have a commercial 45 (Columbia 38-73772) for this song, and a few questions that go along with it.

The A-side is:

• C & C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis - Here We Go (The Rock & Roll Radio Mix) (printed 4:41, actual 4:44, matrix number ZSS 73690A)

The B-side is:

• C & C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (Radio Edit) (printed 4:08, actual 4:06, matrix number ZSS 73772B)

The A-side, "Here We Go", is indeed a different mix from the LP version, and can't be edited down from the LP version. For instance, the word "rap" at 0:47 has a big handclap behind it, which is not on the LP version (it would be at 1:03). Most of the "Rock & Roll Radio Mix" is found on The Hits Album 15 (Sony BMG UK, 1991), but the songs are segued together and the 9-second guitar solo intro is omitted.

My questions are these:

(1) I have three commercially available 45s for the Gonna Make You Sweat album:

• "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..."/"Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..." (Columbia 73687)
• "Here We Go"/"Here We Go" (Columbia 73690) - currently misplaced in my basement but I have it listed in the big notebook
• "Here We Go"/"Gonna Make You Sweat" (Columbia 73772)

Does anyone know why the last single even exists, since the release number is well after the third single from the album ("Things ..."), and the matrix number seems to use the master for the 73690 single?

(2) The "Radio Edit" of "Gonna Make You Sweat" is slower than the common versions, and is about 1.5 seconds longer as a result. (113.4 BPM for 45's "Radio Edit", 114.6 or 114.7 BPM for everything else). Aside from being about 1.1% slower, I couldn't hear any difference between the "Radio Edit" and the versions found on a whole lot of compilations - is this different from the LP version?

Edited by crapfromthepast

crapfromthepast wrote: The A-side, "Here We Go", is indeed a different mix from the LP version, and can't be edited down from the LP version.

If my memory serves me right, didn't this song have the chorus totally resung by a different vocalist? They ran into some legal issues with "Gonna Make You Sweat" when they put a much more attractive lip syncher in place of Martha Wash for the video. As a result, I believe they replaced Martha's vocals on the single version for "Hmmmm" and "Here We Go." (My memory is hazy on this, since I haven't heard the LP versions in years.)

Regarding "Gonna Make You Sweat," this may be a case where the "Radio Edit" ended up being the LP version, because I don't know of any difference either. Why it's slower on the b-side is probably due to a tape speed mastering error.

Edited by aaronk

torcan wrote: The early '90s were a wierd time for vinyl 45s. I could never figure out why things were released the way we were ... and why certain other deserving songs (i.e. high-charting) never were on 45s.

I'll bet that final 45 release ("Sweat" b/w "Here We Go") was destined for jukeboxes, not consumers. I'm sure jukebox operators preferred to allocate their real estate to records with two hits. By '92 or '93, most 45 releases had two "singles" backed together.

eric_a wrote: I'll bet that final 45 release ("Sweat" b/w "Here We Go") was destined for jukeboxes

That's what I was going to suggest... it was probably a jukebox reissue.

Ed can probably help out with the cassette single info, but in an effort to shed light on radio airplay, here is my promo CD single info:

C+C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams And Zelma Davis-"Here We Go" (CSK 73690)

1-The C & C Radio Mix (listed & actual 4:32)
2-The R & B Radio Mix (listed & actual 4:32)
3-The Rock & Roll Radio Mix (listed 4:41; actual 4:42)
4-The Clivilles/Cole Rockin' In '91 Mix (listed 9:31; actual 9:30)
5-The Rockin' In '91 Dub (listed 0:30; actual 0:29) (these short times are not a typo)
6-The Cole/Clivilles House Mix (listed 7:42; actual 7:44)

FYI, we played Cut 1 on-the-air at my station back in 1991.

Edited by jimct