Mariah Carey - Can’t Let Go

Thanks so much, edtop40!

I swear I heard a version of this song on the radio that opens with Piano (or keyboard, maybe?) but I've never seen it on any CD.
Basically, if you took the first 24 seconds off the intro of the single version, you would have what I remember hearing. I made an
MP3 of it years ago from the single version. Anyone else remember hearing it that way on the radio, or for anyone here who worked
in radio at the time, do you remember playing it that way? I suppose it could have been just an in-house edit.

Edited by thecdguy

Yes that was the version Benny Brown played on the R&R Top 40 which was broadcast in the UK.

Thanks, at least I'm not the only one who remembers it that way! So I guess if that shorter edit was played in the UK, it must be floating around
somewhere on a TM Century or some similar kind of promo disc. The running time would be somewhere around 3 1/2 minutes, and none of the CD Single
configurations I saw on Discogs have that length, not even the US promo.

Edited by MangoMusic - 18 May 2025 at 7:13am

That is probably one of the earliest promo CD-Rs I've seen. CD-Rs did exist as early as 1990, but blank discs were very expensive. They did not get used very often at all.