"I’ll Be There" - Escape Club
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Topic: "I’ll Be There" - Escape Club
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "I’ll Be There" - Escape Club
Date Posted: 29 September 2006 at 9:47pm
| According to the database, the 45 version of Escape Club's "I'll Be There" runs approximately 4:55. Does anyone know if a shorter radio edit exists on an official DJ promo single release? |
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 30 September 2006 at 6:35am
| The (4:55) version is what's included on my TM library. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 30 September 2006 at 8:17am
| Thanks, Aaron. I believe the 4:55 version is what most Top 40 radio stations played, but I still wonder if the record label had ever serviced a shorter edit. Perhaps our resident radio edit expert, Jim, can furnish some light on this? |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 30 September 2006 at 8:18am
| **duplicate post - deleted** |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 30 September 2006 at 3:02pm
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Todd: The (4:55) version was, in fact, the edit.
The Escape Club-"I'll Be There" (PRCD 3889-2) 1-Edit (4:55) 2-LP Version (5:45) 3-Ghost Mix (5:31) The listed times are all within :01 of the actual times. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 30 September 2006 at 3:16pm
| Thanks, Jim! That makes one less radio edit I have to worry about tracking down. :-) |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 02 February 2008 at 5:55pm
I have the "Edit" on two CDs:
Keep 0:00.0-3:24.8 of LP version. Edit on a downbeat; if you count beat "1" as the start of the flute-like solo, then edit on beat "29". Remove the 32 beats from 3:24.8-3:44.0. Keep the 156 beats from 3:44.0-5:17.8. Put a 32-beat fade from 4:58.6-5:17.8. Your mixdown will run 4:58.5, with an edit at 3:24.8 and a 32-beat fade from 4:39-4:58. I should point out that the edit at 3:24 is very noticeable - if you have the "edit" version on a CD, listen specifically for the edit. You'll never hear the song the same way again. <rant>I know we don't editorialize about the songs themselves on this board, but I'd like to go on record saying that I detest this song with every fiber of my being. After listening to it for the first time in the nearly 17 years since it came out, I hate it even more. Back then, it struck me as being sappy and callously manipulative, cashing in big time on the movie "Ghost" without actually being affiliated with the movie in any way. Plus, the first single from Dollars And Sex was a terrific rocker called "Call It Poison", which stalled at the bottom rungs of the chart. This was the follow-up to "Call It Poison", and I was appalled that this became the hit while "Call It Poison" fell on deaf ears. Injustice, to me anyway. Thanks for letting me vent... :) </rant> |
Posted By: eric_a
Date Posted: 03 June 2024 at 11:59pm
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Has anyone heard the version of “I’ll Be There” on the Oldies Series reissue
45 or Backtrax cassingle? It’s listed on both as 3:56. I suspect that’s a typo, especially since the Backtrax CD is listed as 4:57, in line with the radio edit. But stranger things have happened so wanted to throw it out to the group. And @Ron, we’re coming up on another 17 years since you listened to this, so I’m sure we’d all love to hear your perspective on a fresh spin! |
Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 04 June 2024 at 8:36am
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Ron, if it makes you feel any better, here's what Wikipedia claims happens with this song:
Singer Trevor Steel said, "When we were recording Dollars & Sex, our third album, everyone in the record company was on us to write a ballad as that was all that radio was playing from rock bands at the time. A friend of ours’ wife died while we were in Los Angeles recording. John had come up with some chords which he left with me one night when the rest of the band were going out partying. I wrote the lyrics and left them on a table. John says that he remembers coming in that night and “seeing them in a shaft of light”. I don’t know if that story has been exaggerated over time but that’s how it was written." ------------- Gene Savage http://www.BlackLightRadio.com - http://www.BlackLightRadio.com http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage - http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage Tulsa, Oklahoma USA |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 05 June 2024 at 5:24pm
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Just listened again. I still hate it, 16+ years after the last post!
(Again - just my opinion. We all like what we like, and that's cool.) ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |
Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 06 June 2024 at 12:22pm
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eric_a wrote:Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 06 June 2024 at 12:30pm
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My "I'll Be There" on the Atlantic Oldies Series, 7-84878, states 3:56, but is a typo. It's actually 4:57 exactly. It was
released on 6/6/93, 31 years ago today. My opinion is that for a piece of pop 'fluff', I like it. -Bill. |
Posted By: eric_a
Date Posted: 06 June 2024 at 5:16pm
Thanks for confirming! I realize I'm a fan too.
Ha! Let's loop back on this in 2041? |