K-ci & JoJo - All My Life

Thanks, Ed. It seems here that MCA sent 2 other promo CDs to radio without a catalog
number.   You have one with just the "Wedding Mix", and mainrhythm has the other one
which is the 2 track Radio Edit & Piano Intro.   

Please note the Radio Edit on mainrhythm's promo is NOT the same Radio Edit on the 4
track promo MCA5P-90100, which Aaron listed previously.

Is this common practice for the labels to send dj copies to radio without catalog
numbers?

prisdeej wrote: Is this common practice for the labels to send dj copies to radio without catalog numbers?

Dave, if my memory serves, at
around the time of "All My Life", many of the labels started this practice,
especially for "2nd/3rd different-serviced promo CD singles" for a song.
But without the "promo stock #s" associated with these discs since their
inception, it certainly makes it much harder for "geeks like us" :)   to
document/track down these specific promo items. It made tons of sense
from the label's point-of-view, however. These "officially released by the
label, CD-Rs" were often (though not always) digital clones, far
quicker/cheaper for them to produce, 98%+ the same quality as
"standard, factory-made" promos, in the short-term. This was also right
around the time when the majority of CHR radio had switched over to
playing music on-air from their station computer's music database, as
opposed to loading/playing the actual promo CD singles on-air, as had
been the norm since around 1989. So these CD-Rs often had to "hold up"
just long enough for stations to do a "one time load-in" to their system.
Longer-term durability on these? Definitely not as good, but I bet that was
also viewed as a good thing by the labels. Hell, if these CD-Rs "self-
destructed" in a couple of years, even better, right? The labels had long
ago moved on to other projects. Hope this helps, kind sir!

Edited by jimct