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    Posted: 25 May 2008 at 3:47am
I was looking at all the old posts. Boy, do I have a lot of reading cut out for me.

One of the interesting ones was the A-List. I noticed it did include "Thriller" and it started reminding me - was this the promo version that removed Vincent Price. The beginning is a lot like the new "2003 Edit".

During it's heyday in 1984, what vinyl did this version come on (12" or 7")? I wonder why Vincent's rap was thought to be possibly offensive?

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The regular US 45 version is the one that has no Vincent Price rap. The US promo 45 has an edited version that still keeps the rap in tact. You raise in interesting question, though. I wonder why it was cut in the first place?

The US 12" single has the full LP version.
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I figured they didn't want to pay Vincent extra royalties to be on the 45!
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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

The regular US 45 version is the one that has no Vincent Price rap. The US promo 45 has an edited version that still keeps the rap in tact. You raise in interesting question, though. I wonder why it was cut in the first place?

The US 12" single has the full LP version.


So you mean to tell me that the commercial store-bought 45-rpm record in the US was the "non-Vincent" version? REALLY? Wow - see in Canada, we had just the LP version on our 45, but an alternate promo came out with the Vincent ommission. Only CKFM and CFTR played it though in Southern Ontario.
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I must've heard "Thriller" on the radio well over a hundred times when the song became a hit in 1984 and I can honestly say I don't once remember hearing it without the Vincent Price "rap". For me, this is one instance where I don't consider the commercial 45 to be the "true" hit version.
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Thriller on "A-List" runs 5:58 with the 60 second intro. It DOES have Vincent Price.
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I've been wondering if anyone (Jim, maybe?) has any anecdotes from the radio perspective in those days. Was it a surprise that Thriller (the album) turned out to be such a big hit? By the time Epic was a few singles into the album, was each subsequent single an automatic add?
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Originally posted by Jody Thornton Jody Thornton wrote:


So you mean to tell me that the commercial store-bought 45-rpm record in the US was the "non-Vincent" version? REALLY? Wow - see in Canada, we had just the LP version on our 45, but an alternate promo came out with the Vincent ommission. Only CKFM and CFTR played it though in Southern Ontario.


That's not true. I have a commercial Canadian 45 which runs 3:56 and is the edited version without the rap. Maybe there were two Canadian 45s?



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Originally posted by eric_a eric_a wrote:

I've been wondering if anyone (Jim, maybe?) has any anecdotes from the radio perspective in those days. Was it a surprise that Thriller (the album) turned out to be such a big hit? By the time Epic was a few singles into the album, was each subsequent single an automatic add?


I know that CHUM in Toronto strayed from their top 40 roots to play more "alternative" or "new wave" music throughout most of '82; however, when "Thriller" was released they automatically added just about every single from the album, and during '83 went back to programming Top 40 music. They knew they couldn't ignore it. "The Girl is Mine" never charted on their chart (it did on CFTR), but the single "Thriller" was the only song in history to debut at No. 1 on the CHUM singles chart.

For the record, I was listening to "Rock 102" (as it was known then) from Buffalo at the time (still am!) - but I followed the Billboard charts, along with the CHUM and CFTR charts religiously back then. Still have 'em, as a matter of fact :)
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And oddly enough - Stereo Rock (used on Rock 102) never played the single "Thriller" in 1984.

They did play "The Girl...", Billie Jean", "Beat It", "PYT", and "Human Nature", but that was it.

CHUM was interesting in 1980 to early 1983, say February. Notice that they presented themselves more like album rock, and even played album versions too? The only edit I remember them playing in that period was "Rapture" by Blondie - they played the US Remix with all the cowbells softly overdubbed. All others were LP versions.

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