"How to Dance" - Bingoboys
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Topic: "How to Dance" - Bingoboys
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "How to Dance" - Bingoboys
Date Posted: 15 February 2005 at 12:39pm
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I have a commercial CD maxi single of the Bingoboys featuring Princessa's "How to Dance" (Atlantic 86083-2) featuring the following track lineup and actual run times:
1) EXTENDED RADIO VERSION - 4:37 2) AMBIENT NY MIX - 5:54 3) TRIAL CLUB MIX - 6:19 4) AMBIENT NY UNDERGROUND - 6:31 5) DMC MIX - 5:57 The version I'm concerned with is the Extended Radio Version, which is the same mix as the 3:46 cassette single and LP version but has some extended parts. (The other mixes on this disc are drastically different from the hit version.) Should this Extended Radio Version be treated as a separate single version? After all, it does come from a commercial maxi-CD single release. |
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 17 February 2005 at 9:11am
| There must have been a shorter vinyl 45 promotional copy with the 3:46 version that appears on the commercial 45 - does anyone have this dj copy to verify? |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 17 February 2005 at 4:16pm
| While we're on the subject of Bingoboys... On the 90s Now Volume 5 CD (K-Tel 4051), "How to Dance" is missing the :05 spoken epilogue where the wooden-voiced narrator comes on at the very end of the song and says, "Well, that's it. Good luck. And keep on dancing". This is why the song only runs 3:41 on that disc and not 3:46 like the complete 45 and LP version. |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 17 February 2005 at 4:33pm
| Good catch Todd. |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 10:09am
| Does anyone have the cassette single that can report back as to the running time? Also was there a commercial or dj vinyl 45 issued for this song in the U.S. and if so what is the running time? |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 12:19pm
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my commercial cassingle issued as atlantic 87756 states the
version on the cardboard sleeve as well as the cassette's face as the 'radio version' with no stated run time but runs 3:46....i believe the cassingle version is the same as the lp version....but i'm not 100% sure.... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 12:40pm
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Here are the details of my 1991 promo CD single::
-BINGOBOYS featuring PRINCESSA--"How To Dance" (PRCD 3759-2) 1-Radio Version (listed & actual 3:46) 2-Extended Radio Version (listed & actual 4:37) 3-Ambient NY Mix (listed 5:54; actual 5:52) 4-Tribal Club Mix (listed 6:19; actual 6:18) 5-Ambient NY Underground (listed 6:41; actual 6:31) |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 3:23pm
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I had forgotten about this song....
A real hoot for me is the narration instruction is sampled from a K-tel album called "Let's Disco!" ... we had this album in the house back then, but i don't know why, no one was learning to dance. But i thought it was a riot, and i recognized the guy right away. youtube has an old commercial for the album, sounds like the same guy in the commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miPnAldlWXg |
Posted By: musicmanatl
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 5:26pm
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Mark, that is a great find! I didn't realize where that narration came from. That is hilarious. I always loved the Bingoboys record just for the narration alone. When I watched the commercial, I think I actually remembered that album when it was being sold. :)
Frank |
Posted By: chendagam
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 7:55pm
| Sounds like the same guy to me! That was so cool to see. Now I want that K-tel album :) |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 27 January 2013 at 9:38pm
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oh yeah try and find that album if you can - i wish i
still had it. This really stiff announcer is talking you thru each dance step in the most clinical way, it's a riot. You can almost "hear" him wearing a lab coat, holding a clipboard and using a pointer. MM |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 28 January 2013 at 3:29am
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Mark, thanks a million for sharing those "announcer" source details. I also
loved both your "don't know why that album was at my house....no one was learning to dance!" and your "lab coat/clipboard/pointer" visual is spot on! But one question remains. Did K-Tel even know that the song lifted "source audio" from one of their own LPs, and then try to demand a "sampling fee" from Atlantic? My guess? No. And the statute of limitations has probably passed. As for K-Tel? I've read bankruptcy articles several times over the years for the label, but then they've "re-appeared" with new product a couple of times, since the 70's. |
Posted By: mstgator
Date Posted: 29 January 2013 at 9:17pm
Yes, the "radio version" on the commercial cassingle and promo CD is the same as the album version on "Best Of". |
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