color me badd "i wanna sex you up"

crapfromthepast wrote: The "Freeze Mix" on the 45 A-side was the hit that got all the airplay in the US.

I believe that is debatable, since TM Century issued only the album version on their CHR HitDisc and GoldDisc. Our station always played the cut from TM's CDs, so we never played the "Freeze Mix" at all. I'm wondering if AT40 also played the album version, since they used TM's discs for many of the songs on the countdown. (TM did issue the "Freeze Mix," but is was only on their "B" HitDisc, which contained Urban and Rock formats.)

I too remember hearing the "Come inside take off your coat" lyrics on KDWB, although I always thought I was hearing the "Smoothed Out Mix" as it begins the same way (I have it on promo CD single). What are the differences between the "Freeze" and "Smoothed Out" mixes? I'm almost certain that the "Smoothed Out Mix" is not the same as the LP version after the 2:16 mark, so they must at least be different edits.

Incidentally, I have a Rick Dees from the summer of '91 and they use the LP version on that particular show.

Pat:

Thought I'd make you aware that the notes in the database for "I Wanna Sex You Up" currently states:

(the cassette single contains the)

The complete comment should read: "the cassette single contains the "Freeze Mix" and runs 4:06." I know when the database was converted from the old hard copy book to the electronic format, the system had some issues printing text that proceeded quotation marks.

In case it was never officially detemined, the "Master Mix" from my CD single is the same as the soundtrack album version.

Revisiting this because I owned PRO-CD-4916 at one
time... I bought it from a used record store on Cape
Cod in the mid-90s on a hunch that it might contain
the version of this song that Kiss 108 played in
Boston. Sure enough, it does - the Xtended Mix (cut
3) is the one I remember hearing most. It runs 4:22
as indicated and has the "Hey Beautiful Lady" first
verse from the album version, with a backbeat
throughout the song that's similar to the "Walk This
Way" style beat used on the US single version of
Roxette's Joyride. It also starts with a drum intro
in the first measure... kick-snare-snare-snare-snare-
snare-erans-snare (the "erans" being the snare sound
reversed. It's a great version of the song, and it's
been my go-to ever since.