Diana Ross - So Close

Our Top 40 station played "So Close" as an "extra", for just 3 weeks in
early 1983. We carted up/played the 45 version. It got no requests/sales,
and, as I recall, the trade mag info for it wasn't overly impressive a month
in, so we dropped it. It never even charted on our Top 30. Version-wise, I
strongly suspect that 99.9%+ of the other Top 40 stations did the same.

Gordon, your point about only hearing the album mix of a song in later
years causes memories of exactly what version we heard as a current to
fade ("Hit Me With Your Best Shot", or "Two Tickets To Paradise" are two
high-profile examples of this) is quite valid.

FYI, since the advent of the promo CD single in the late 80's, the only two
times that I remember our station opting to play a version NOT included
on the P CD S at all, and opting to play the full CD version instead, were
Bell Biv DeVoe's "Do Me!" and PM Dawn's "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss".
Since "Do Me" was the 2nd single from the "Poison" CD, after the title
track hit big, we already had the full CD in-house. When we got word
from MCA what the 2nd single was gonna be, we immediately played it in
the music office, and liked it. But then, when the P CD S came in, none of
us liked the single mix nearly as much as we had the LP version. But it is
safe to say that if we hadn't happened to hear the LP version beforehand,
we would've automatically just played "Do Me" off the P CD S. In PM
Dawn's case, we also happened to get in the full CD before we got a P CD
S in, so the "Do Me" scenario basically repeated itself in our music office.

Edited by jimct

You beat me to it! Yeah, every single mix, B-side, etc. will be included on these sets. I'm most excited that the remix single version of "Chain Reaction," which charted higher than the original album version single, will be making its CD debut.

http://theseconddisc.com/2014/07/23/we-want-muscles-and-othe r-diana-ross-albums-for-rca-expanded-by-funkytown-grooves/

This is good news. I just hope that the Funky Town Grooves folks don't mess up some of these rare versions. They have released several bonus tracks on other CDs in the past that were supposed to be single edits but were not.

So Close single version on the the new Diana Ross "Silk
Electric" exapanded edition is listed at 3:55 on the case,
times out 3:53 on the disc, but runs 3:48 like the
commercial 45 as there are 5 seconds of silence tacked onto
the end.