Starship - We Built This City (dj edit)
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Topic: Starship - We Built This City (dj edit)
Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Starship - We Built This City (dj edit)
Date Posted: 20 October 2006 at 1:05am
| The DJ 45 for Starship "We Built This City" has a printed run time of (4:17), but both sides actually run (4:30). The side with the DJ chatter is not actually an edit, but an early fade of the LP/45 version. (The flip side is also an early fade, but it does not have the DJ chatter.) |
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 8:02am
| Does anyone know if the DJ 45 version without the DJ chatter has ever appeared anywhere on CD? I could've sworn I had it somewhere in my collection at one time, but I've checked all my CDs and they all have the DJ chatter. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 9:59am
| Yes, it can be found on the compilation Roller Hockey, although it runs the full-length on that CD and does not fade to (4:30). |
Posted By: Fetta
Date Posted: 16 March 2010 at 12:05pm
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Do any of the versions that were produced for specific radio stations exist anywhere? The reason I bring this up is that I was reading up on the passing of Ron Lundy (a NY radio icon) and he can be heard (as well as Harry Harrison) on the WCBS-FM version of the song.
http://www.wcbsfm.org/WeBuiltThisCityHarrisonLundy.mp3 I would love to get my hands on clean copies of this as well as other NY stations (and possibly from other stations around the country.) Does anyone own these versions or know where to get them? Thanks. -Fetta |
Posted By: bdpop
Date Posted: 16 March 2010 at 3:35pm
| There was also a 12" single without the chatter. I believe the versions without the chatter were used to make the local versions; which were produced by the individual stations. |
Posted By: RichM921
Date Posted: 17 March 2010 at 7:56am
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I have MP3s of four different custom versions used by WCBS-FM. I also have the version used by WCAU-FM Philadelphia which has a very cool customized jingle in the intro and the original version used by Q105 Tampa. I'd love to collect some more if anyone has others.
I do have the DJ edit on a CD on the radio-only set The "A" List and it is with the early fade. |
Posted By: Fetta
Date Posted: 17 March 2010 at 8:07am
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Hey RichM921,
Where did you find those MP3's? -Jeff |
Posted By: RichM921
Date Posted: 17 March 2010 at 12:57pm
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I got the WCAU-FM one long ago on a file-sharing program (maybe WinMX?). I don't recall where I got the CBS-FM ones, but it was probably the same place. The Q105 version I lifted from a clean aircheck of the station recorded in the late '80s.
Rich |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 24 March 2010 at 5:28pm
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Not sure if this is helpful, but my copy of Starship's "Greatest Hits (Ten Years And Change 1974-1991)" has the version with no chatter, and runs 4:38.
Rather than an early fade, the intro is chopped of, starting with the drums. For my own listening, I edited the intro back on to make it full length, the way i used to hear it occasionally along with the 45 version, or the custom versions for different stations. -MM |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 25 March 2010 at 5:38am
ISTR Kiss 108 in Boston playing it without the cold intro, though I don't ever recall hearing a special version that mentioned the station on any of the Boston CHRs...they just played the "no dj" edit as-is. |
MMathews wrote:Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 05 September 2024 at 2:47am
| [moved post about the "inhale" to other thread] |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 05 September 2024 at 10:45am
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Not sure if there’s any info here that might help:
http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1486 &PN=1 ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 05 September 2024 at 11:18am
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Aaron, thanks. I had https://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/search.asp?KW=starship+built&SM=1&SI=PT&FM=8&OB=1&Submit=Start+Search - searched for starship built and this was the only dedicated thread that came up!
…Something to add to your list of things to fix. |
Posted By: C J Brown
Date Posted: 06 September 2024 at 3:54pm
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Posted this in the other We Built This City thread with no
results. Does anyone know of a source for any or all of the various "city" versions of this song? |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 06 September 2024 at 9:37pm
| You are asking for radio stations' in-house productions from 1985, where they recorded their DJ talking over the promo 45 A-side. These recordings surely would have been on either on analog tape reels or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelipac - stereo carts which were probably never transferred to a digital format. If any have survived this long, I bet they're in a box in a former employee's closet or basement. It'd be interesting to try to track them down, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. Maybe ask on the RadioDiscussions forum? |