Pablo Cruise - I Go To Rio

I recently acquired and dubbed the I Go To Rio 45 [A&M 2112-S]. The label lists a run time of 3:36, but the track runs 3:41 - really 3:41:500.

It’s the same mix as the LP version, but - if you attempt to edit the LP version down to match the single version, it will fade out earlier than the 45 by about 3 seconds. I tried editing a vinyl dub of the LP version, as well as my copy of the Japan mini-LP CD. Both faded out 3+ seconds too early.

The good news - if you have The Best Of Pablo Cruise-20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection, it features a longer version of the track (4:42), which you can use to replicate the single edit. Below are editing instructions; each of the following directions assumes you do them in order:

Remove the initial underwater phone conversation - approx. 23.600 seconds, leaving just 300 milliseconds of silence before the first bass drum
Remove 7.680 seconds from 4.195 to 11.876 of the resulting file
Remove 7.518 seconds from 1:50:589 to 1:58:108 of the resulting file
Remove 7.580 seconds from 2:26:958 to 2:34:538 of the resulting file
Delete the audio after 3:41.500
Fade from 3:29 to 3:41.500

As an aside - my brothers had the 'Worlds Away' LP when I was a little kid. And we heard that song on the San Francisco / bay area radio stations a lot, so I would've sworn it was a much bigger hit.

A personal favorite of mine. It got plenty of airplay in the Twin Cities market and nearly hit the Top 10 on KSTP's local
charts.