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    Posted: 12 November 2007 at 11:10am
My promo CD single (CSK 1448) has the following:

1-(Single Version) (listed 4:26; actual 4:27)
2-(7" Remix) (listed 3:48; actual 3:47)
3-(Extended Mix) (listed & actual 6:59)
4-(House Mix) (listed 7:25; actual 7:22)
5-(Club 7") (listed & actual 4:06)
6-(Club Dub) (listed & actual 5:14)
7-(Percappella) (listed 3:43; actual 3:47)
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Commercial 45 copies of Johnny Kemp's "Birthday Suit" run 4:28. (Timing info once again comes to us from abagon. The printed record label time is 4:26.)
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both my commercial 45 and commercial cassingle are issued as columbia 68569 with the same track on them which runs 4:28 and is identical to the version on the cd listed below......both the 45's face and cassingles cardboard sleeve states a run time of 4:26 it actually runs 4:28.....the commercial 45 was NEVER issued with a picture sleeve.....


(S) (4:28) K-Tel 6002 Power Jams











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Jim, do you know if your station played the single version or the 7" remix?
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Gene, the song didn't do well for us, so we only played it for a few weeks. I
just listened to the (Single Version), and, as best as I can honestly recall,
think that's the one we went with. If for no other reason than, during those
early days of us using/playing promo CD singles on the air, we'd usually opt
to play for "Cut 1" off of them, especially at the start.

Pretty scientific, eh?     :)
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Originally posted by Todd Ireland Todd Ireland wrote:

Commercial 45 copies of Johnny
Kemp's "Birthday Suit" run 4:28. (Timing info once again
comes to us from abagon. The printed record label time is
4:26.)


My promo 45 is the same timing. Yep, they were still
issuing them in early '89.
As with Jim's station, we didn't play the song for more
than 2-3 weeks either as I recall.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote NightAire Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 March 2014 at 5:32pm
Thanks for the feedback on this one!

This is another track that I remember being MUCH larger than it actually was... I'm guessing the topic of the chorus helped it stick with me. ;-)

Listening back, I see why it tanked... other than having a "shocking" topic, it was just a pretty weak song, especially compared to the "gotta dance" feel of "Just Got Paid" (helped, in no small part, I'm sure, by the involvement of the father of New Jack Swing, Teddy Riley).

Thanks, again, for your help!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote NightAire Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 April 2024 at 1:06am
I just A/B'd files I have labeled "single version" and "album version" and... what am I missing? The LP version and the single version sound identical to me.

Is it drum reverb? Is the lead vocal slightly hotter in the LP version? I can't pick out differences when I'm playing one in the left channel and the other in the right...

Help! :-)
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Hey Gene,

I have the promo CD for this one, which has several mixes (as noted upthread). On the back inlay, there is a notation that the "Single Version"
on the CD is taken from the Sing soundtrack, which would kind of confirm that the album version and single version are the same. My
opinion is that this is one of those cases where the "Single Version" notation is just shorthand for "the most straight-ahead normal, non-dancey
sounding, not extended or 'specially remixed' version". Just my 2 cents, though!

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