Chicago - What Kind Of Man Would I Be

thecdguy wrote: I'm just guessing here since I don't have the actual promo, but I think the lone promo CD Single listed on Discogs (Reprise/Full Moon PRO-CD-3777) with one track labelled as "LP Version" is referring to the song being from the GH 1982-1989 LP, not the original Chicago 19 LP. I noticed that both versions run very close in length, which can confuse the situation even more.

You are probably right. Someone on Discogs mislabeled it. It wouldn't make sense to have the LP version here on a promo CD when the 1982-1989 version was the "hit" single version played on radio.

The version on 1982-1989 is the only version I ever heard
on the radio here.

As it was pointed out earlier in the thread, “LP Version” refers to the Greatest Hits LP and not Chicago 19, so the version on the promo is the Greatest Hits version.

To put it another way, there is the 1988 LP version, which was released on Chicago 19 in June 1988 and is a non-hit version. Then there's the 1989 LP version, which was released on Greatest Hits 1982-1989 in November 1989 and became the hit. This version peaked in February 1990.

Edited by aaronk

Very true, Dan. The promo CD label at least says "Remixed by Humberto Gatica," but that still doesn't make things as crystal clear as it could've been.

On a similar note, when did "Greatest Hits" albums start including new songs that weren't on any previous albums - but were added to the "Greastest Hits" to promote the sale of the album? I don't think it was too common in the '60s and early '70s.