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eriejwg 
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 Posted: 07 November 2017 at 4:54pm |
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I believe the 45 version is also on the Soul Train
25th Anniversary CD. |
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995wlol
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Posted: 09 November 2017 at 11:00am |
I wonder if there were factors that caused this song's radio airplay to be under-reported. I very specifically remember 99 1/2 WLOL in Minneapolis constantly playing Rockit and have come across numerous airchecks that back this up. In fact it continued to get airplay well past its initial chart run. However, WLOL never reported Rockit in its weekly survey--not even as an extra. I have no idea why this would have happened, but maybe other stations did the same... |
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Posted: 09 November 2017 at 1:49pm |
Ok, so I just pulled out my old, dopey UK 45 for Herbie Hancock's "Rock It" from my basement and matched it digitally with the track on Only Dance 1980-1984 in Cool Edit Pro and it matched exactly. That means that it's most definitely the UK 45 single version on "Only Dance" and "100 Dance Hits Of The Eighties." |
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mjb50
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Posted: 03 April 2022 at 9:57am |
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The ~3:42 UK 7" version is also known as the Short Version, and it's even on the US 12". I think this the "not the 45" edit Gene referred to.
The US 7" version runs about 3:55, plus or minus a second depending on slight differences in mastering speed and how far the fadeout goes. (YouTube clip of reissue 45) It looks the US 7" version is on these CDs, and probably some others: • Nick at Nite Goes to Outer Space [1997] • Pop Music: The Modern Era 1976–1999 [1999] • Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century [1999 26-CD box set] • Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music [2000] [5-CD box set] • Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap [2021] • Millennium Of Pop - Das Jahrhundert Album [1999, Germany] • City Retro Two [2000, Australia] • Synth Pop [2015, Europe] On a bunch of European comps there also exists a ~3:20 edit that's the same as the UK 7"/Short version but cuts out ~2:33 to 2:50 and abruptly fades or truncates the end. I don't know anything about its origins. The video edit also runs about 3:20, but it's different, with the first edit being only 8 seconds into the song. |
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AdvprosD
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Posted: 03 April 2022 at 10:55am |
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Thanks for bumping this thread up mjb50. I tried searching without the quotation marks and the closest thing I found was the Newcleus thread.
Sometimes the search function is finicky. Edit: Also thanks Aaron. Edited by AdvprosD |
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<Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo!
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Posted: 11 April 2022 at 2:14pm |
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I just received a copy of the "Rockit" promo 12" in the mail, and I can confirm that the "Short Version" matches the 3:42 version commonly found on CD.
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Posted: 12 April 2022 at 10:22pm |
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I'll add myself to chorus of those who could not believe
this never hit the top 40. I bought the 45, I bought the 12" single ....I watched the video a hundred times or more on MTV (what a great video!)...and Z100 had it in high rotation at the time. So yeah, this is one of those 80s hits where the chart position just simply does NOT apply to the record's popularity. BTW, I never saw the point of "scratch mixing" .. found it kind of ridiculous if you ask me, however on this record it worked to make it a great instrumental. And of course I was forced to accept scratch mixing as an effect that would be dubbed into countless more hits as the years went on. Sigh. But there it is. MM |
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