OT - Stevie B - Spring Love
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Topic: OT - Stevie B - Spring Love
Posted By: prisdeej
Subject: OT - Stevie B - Spring Love
Date Posted: 25 July 2024 at 1:24pm
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The a-side of the vinyl 45 is the short version from the German CD single. Does anyone
anyone know if the b-side is the longer Radio Mix from the CD single, or the LP version from Party Your Body? ------------- DJ L. |
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Posted By: EternalStatic
Date Posted: 28 July 2024 at 3:59pm
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Dave-
I don't have any proof, just circumstantial evidence, but the B-side is more likely to be the "Radio Mix" than the LP Version, as the https://www.discogs.com/release/1211977-Stevie-B-Spring-Love-Come-Back-To-Me/image/SW1hZ2U6NDY2OTk2MTk= - label of the 45 indicates edits were done by "The Whiz Kids", who are also credited on the import CD single. The album version gives no such credit. Also both the "Radio Mix" and the 45 B-Side version both have a listed time of 4:56, while the LP Mix is listed as 5:03. |
Posted By: prisdeej
Date Posted: 30 July 2024 at 1:22pm
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Chuck M sent me a dub of the 45 a and b side.
a-side is indeed the 3:50 actual Short Version from the German CD single, and b-side is the Radio Mix from the same CD single. The Radio Mix runs 4:52 on the CD single (I had to crank the volume up on the fade as it's a long fade out.) Chuck's dub of the b-side runs 4:40, and abruptly ends with a lot of surface noise. It's hard to say if runs the same length as the CD single. I've only ever heard the Party Your Body LP version on the air, even as a recurrent. Thanks again Chuck! ------------- DJ L. |
Posted By: cmmmbase
Date Posted: 31 July 2024 at 4:18am
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my 45 had quite a bit of surface noise on the b-side
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Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 18 May 2025 at 1:20am
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I just discovered this song on Pandora a couple weeks ago. The version that popped up a few times was a "radio only" song, meaning I can't just play it - it has to come up randomly. There's no artwork/cover for most "radio only" songs (just a light blue square), but I believe such tracks used to be available to play, and most were on a CD that was probably pulled from digital. Anyway, the version I heard was about 3:15-3:30 (definitely shorter than the "short version" above) but was cut off suddenly. I'm not sure if it would have segued to another song, or was accidentally cut off. It may have been a different mix than the 2 above (and I liked it quite a lot), as I compared it to other versions on Pandora (and Spotify), and I don't think it was there. |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 18 May 2025 at 8:52pm
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OK, I was able to determine that the "Spring Love" I heard on Pandora clocks in at 3:14 (although cuts off sharply) and is from an album called Fierce Freestyle Classics. On Discogs, this CD is listed with a song length of 3:14, too, and probably sequel into the next song. https://www.discogs.com/release/9366282-Various-Fierce-Freestyle-Classics" rel="nofollow - https://www.discogs.com/release/9366282-Various-Fierce-Freestyle-Classics But I can't figure out what mix it is 'cause it rarely pops up on Pandora. Does anyone have this CD and know what mix it is? |
Posted By: prisdeej
Date Posted: 19 May 2025 at 12:17pm
For what it's worth I want to make a notation that the 3.58 listed 3:55 actual version on Freestyle Greatest Beats: The Complete Collection - Vol. 9 is not the single version/radio mix. It's an edit of the LP version. Sorry I couldn't be more help tracking down this 3:14 version, Gordon. ------------- DJ L. |
EdisonLite wrote:Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 19 May 2025 at 2:33pm
| David, the next time it pops up on one of my Pandora radio stations (which happens fairly frequently), I'll pause it, go to Spotify, and see if it matches anything - maybe it's the LP version chopped off early. |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 20 May 2025 at 6:18am
| Since it was associated with the Wicked Mix subscription remix service, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a custom edit by the DJ. |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 31 May 2025 at 3:17pm
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Mike, David & Eric, I finally got to record a bit of the version of "Spring Love" I heard on Pandora. The closest thing it comes to, when I compare to what I can hear on Spotify, is the 4:23 version on Latest & Greatest (which btw, has vinyl clicks throughout the Spotify recording). But the version I'm hearing (from "Fierce Freestyle Classics") that's on Pandora (and does not have clicks) is a bit more Latin-y, and as I said, it cuts off suddenly at 3:14. Do any of you know if this mix is on anything but this cut-off version on that CD? And Mike, do you think this is the mix associated with the Wicked Mix subscription? Do you have that? |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 01 June 2025 at 4:30pm
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Wicked Mix, not to be confused with the 'Wicked' Bay Area rave promoter/DJ collective active in the same era, was one of those subscription services for DJs. It's no longer active. I was never a subscriber and have never seen any of their releases; I just know about them. These kinds of services often made their own remixes, but without access to original multitrack master tapes or stems. Sometimes it was just a matter of re-editing existing songs(s), and maybe putting their own beats or sampled loops on top. The quality of the results varied quite a bit—some were atrocious, some were excellent, many were mediocre. Some were entirely unauthorized, but some were authorized through a blanket license as long as it was kept to certain formats and limited availability. The fact that you have noticed that there is a version which is similar suggests that the remix you're searching for may have been created using that version as a starting point. Not every mix made by these services would necessarily have been released. Some were just passed around among DJs and played at gigs. A quick search on Discogs suggests that's the case with this particular remix you're looking for; it probably only ever appeared on that mix CD, in that 3:14, blended, incomplete form. A DJ mix CD has tracks blended together, so you can expect that any track taken from the middle of such a CD is probably going to begin and end abruptly. So the 3:14 version you heard on Pandora is certainly taken from this CD. The Mixtress, who made the mix CD you're asking about, was associated with Wicked Mix, and as per the Discogs page you linked to, she made the mix at Wicked Mix Recording Studios. Her current contact info is on her profile page on Discogs. You should just write to her and see if she has a digital copy she might be willing to share. |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 01 June 2025 at 4:44pm
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By the way, I know of two websites which provide comprehensive indexes for DJ remix service releases: https://www.remixservices.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.remixservices.com/ and https://www.hotdiscomix.de/remix_services/index.htm" rel="nofollow - https://www.hotdiscomix.de/remix_services/index.htm The latter is in German but is easy enough to navigate. Interpeten A–Z means Performers A–Z. It looks like a remix-service version of Spring Love has been on X-Mix Issue 33 (1996) and a Select Mix compilation CD (Freestyle Tracks vol. 1) in 2008. I doubt these are what you are looking for, but if you look on Discogs, you can sometimes get more details, e.g. the X-Mix version was called "Spring Love (Cannavo's Masspool Megamix)", so then you can go search that up on YouTube. The other CD I can't find much info about, but it's not hard to search for spring love select mix on YouTube. |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 02 June 2025 at 2:03pm
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Very interesting info, Mike. The version I heard from Pandora is definitely from that CD because when the song does occasionally pop up on one of my Pandora stations, it definitely lists that album as the album it's from. The recording starts cold (not blending with the song before it), but of course, it could have been tracked for its starting point to occur on a downbeat (with no bleed from the prior song). Also, the song, while ending abruptly, does end without any bleed from the next song. So I'm not sure the song "segues" from one to the next, as I originally theorized. I will reach out to that DJ you mentioned. I didn't even realize I could do this on Discogs, or that that kind of info would be there. |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 03 June 2025 at 1:59am
| Yeah, in the '90s there were a lot of these digitally edited DJ mix CDs where the tracks weren't really blended at all, or they are crossfaded for only like 1 or 2 seconds at the seams. |