MIAMI SOUND MACHINE - "Bad Boy"

MIAMI SOUND MACHINE (GLORIA ESTEFAN) - "Bad Boy"

The actual commercial 45 running time is (3:45), the listed time is "3:42" on the record label. (Epic 34-05805)

There's also a foreign CD with a single mix of the song on this CD (Very Best Of):

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wcfpxqydldke

Does anyone have this CD and can tell whether it has the US or European single mix or album mix?

Edited by EdisonLite

Roscoe wrote: "Playlist" is the only readily available CD with the U.S. 45 version. It was also available on the "Hits" promo CD, which is very hard to find. "Essential" contains the non-U.S. 45 version. I can't speak to the other CD you referenced.

This is correct. "Playlist" is the ONLY commercial CD where you can find the Single Remix of Bad Boy, which was also the single version around the world. That other remix from 1992 was made for the 1992 Greatest Hits album.
There are two music videos for the song: the first, and best, one takes place at the beach but sadly it features the Album Version; the second one features the Single Remix and the cast of Cats (!).

EdisonLite wrote: Wow, I don't have that rare version. Nor have I ever seen it. But I'd love to. Has it appeared on any DVD release? Is it on YouTube? I always saw the cats version on VH1/MTV. Did they play this beach version at the very beginning?

The full video used to be in YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0dxl6yQJQ

But f****n' Sony took it down... and that just happened very recently.   VEVO then uploaded the video, but only the first two minutes! WTF? It's too bad because the video is very funny.

OOH! Not everything is lost... it's still in Daily Motion:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ux5y_miami-sound-machine- bad-boys_music#.UazLcNzV98E

And here's the VEVO version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-TfKHKbNys

OK, so this "Bad Boy" remix situation got very complicated - at least as far as I can tell. There's a Shep Pettibone 7" remix, which I believe is what is referred to above as the worldwide single mix - from 1986 or 87. If I understand correctly, this is on the rare Promo CD "Hits" as well as "Essential". There's a Pablo Flores 7" remix, which is referred to above as the "other remix from 1992 that was made for the 1992 Greatest Hits album". (First bit of confusion: I have the '92 GH CD and "Bad Boy" isn't even on it.)

Here's where things got really confusing for me. There is a 12" Shep Pettibone remix on Japan's "The Best Remixes". And there's a 12" Pablo Flores remix on UK's "Twelve Inch Mixes". But these 2 sound identical to me. So were there 12" mixes by both remixers? And where is the "other" one that's not on these 2 CDs? And if the 2 aforementioned CDs have the same mix, which one is correctly labeled and which is wrong (i.e. is it Flores or Pettibone on both CDs?)