Whitesnake - Here I go again.

Welcome to the board, Mark!

The link for the first video doesn't work in the US, apparently.

The non-hit original 1982 version from the Saints And Sinners album runs about 5:09.

The 1987 LP version runs about 4:35. The video you linked to is correct.

The 1987 45 version runs about 3:55. The video you linked to is also correct.

Hope that helps!

Mark,

I like you heard the LP version not the 45. For the longest time I thought that was the hit version. I was in NYC growing up so I can only confirm what you were saying. Massive airplay back then.

Isnt the LP version being played on the Geico commercial these days? Just noticed that too.

Thanx guys for confirming my thoughts, yes, it sounds
like this was a song that had a few versions that were
going around the woods.

I first heard this track at a christmas camp down the
south Coast of NSW in December 1987. The last night
we hired a hall, somewhere in Jervis Bay for
celebrating the occasion of what we done on the camp,
and everybody bought in tapes. One kid bought a mix-
cassette, he obviously came from Inverell as there was
a number of songs recorded from his local radio
station, 1188 2NZ. It was the 45 version; immediate
rock intro. Around the same time, 2SM and 2MMM in
Sydney played the same version during January 1988.

The album version (slow synth intro) blasted my ears
for the first time several years later, on a request
hotline of Gosford's Coast FM in March 1994. I've
grown to like both versions, they have their strengths
in their own ways, but if it came down to the ultimate
nitty gritty, then I'd go with the full out rock
version (1987 single mix).

This version issue has thrown me for several years, as
it appears on two CDs in my physical collection, the
rock mix appears on a five CD set from EMI Australia;
Complete 80s Volume 2, and the album version appears
on a greatest hits of Whitesnake, however none of the
CDs note any info on what versions they were, and to
make things even more confusing, the EMI five CD set
had a 1983 copyright date.

But yayh, finally got this sorted. :)

Cheers guys.

Mark

I think that one reason that the LP version is considered
the "hit" version has to do with the fact that it was the
version used in the music video that played (what seemed
like) every fifteen minutes on MTV in 1987.

(Interesting to see this one resurface at the same time
that the actress featured in said video, Tawny Katain,
passed away.)