"I’ll Be There" - Escape Club

According to the database, the 45 version of Escape Club's "I'll Be There" runs approximately 4:55. Does anyone know if a shorter radio edit exists on an official DJ promo single release?

Thanks, Aaron. I believe the 4:55 version is what most Top 40 radio stations played, but I still wonder if the record label had ever serviced a shorter edit. Perhaps our resident radio edit expert, Jim, can furnish some light on this?

Edited by Todd Ireland

Todd: The (4:55) version was, in fact, the edit.

The Escape Club-"I'll Be There" (PRCD 3889-2)
1-Edit (4:55)
2-LP Version (5:45)
3-Ghost Mix (5:31)

The listed times are all within :01 of the actual times.

I have the "Edit" on two CDs:

• Atlantic's Year In Review: 1991 (Atlantic PRCD 4338-2, 1991)
• Pump Up The Jam! - '90s Dance Hits (Realm OPCD-3601, 2002; This was a dance hit?!?)

I have the LP version on two CDs as well:

• Body Talk - Always And Forever (Time-Life R834-19, 1998; mastered by Dennis Drake and the best-sounding version I've heard)
• Hot Hits Vol. 6 (a different EQ than Body Talk CD; I suspect that both are based on the Dollars And Sex CD mastering)

Here are instructions for creating the edit from the LP version (timing based on Body Talk):

Keep 0:00.0-3:24.8 of LP version.
Edit on a downbeat; if you count beat "1" as the start of the flute-like solo, then edit on beat "29".
Remove the 32 beats from 3:24.8-3:44.0.
Keep the 156 beats from 3:44.0-5:17.8.
Put a 32-beat fade from 4:58.6-5:17.8.

Your mixdown will run 4:58.5, with an edit at 3:24.8 and a 32-beat fade from 4:39-4:58.

I should point out that the edit at 3:24 is very noticeable - if you have the "edit" version on a CD, listen specifically for the edit. You'll never hear the song the same way again.

<rant>I know we don't editorialize about the songs themselves on this board, but I'd like to go on record saying that I detest this song with every fiber of my being. After listening to it for the first time in the nearly 17 years since it came out, I hate it even more. Back then, it struck me as being sappy and callously manipulative, cashing in big time on the movie "Ghost" without actually being affiliated with the movie in any way. Plus, the first single from Dollars And Sex was a terrific rocker called "Call It Poison", which stalled at the bottom rungs of the chart. This was the follow-up to "Call It Poison", and I was appalled that this became the hit while "Call It Poison" fell on deaf ears. Injustice, to me anyway. Thanks for letting me vent... :) </rant>

Ron, if it makes you feel any better, here's what Wikipedia claims happens with this song:

Singer Trevor Steel said,

    "When we were recording Dollars & Sex, our third album, everyone in the record company was on us to write a ballad as that was all that radio was playing from rock bands at the time. A friend of ours’ wife died while we were in Los Angeles recording. John had come up with some chords which he left with me one night when the rest of the band were going out partying. I wrote the lyrics and left them on a table. John says that he remembers coming in that night and “seeing them in a shaft of light”. I don’t know if that story has been exaggerated over time but that’s how it was written."