Paula Abdul "My Love Is For Real"
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Topic: Paula Abdul "My Love Is For Real"
Posted By: Pat Downey
Subject: Paula Abdul "My Love Is For Real"
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 9:01pm
| Paula Abdul just issued a new cd titled "Greatest Hits Straight Up" and included on that cd is a (4:22) version of the song "My Love Is For Real". I do not have the dj cd single so I am wondering if anyone can verify that this is one of the dj edits on the cd single and if so what is the name of the edit? |
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 10:17pm
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Pat, I have two different promo CD singles for this, and the version you ask about appears to be Cut 1 on the first one I list below:
Paula Abdul-"My Love Is For Real" DPRO-12739 1-Radio Edit (listed 4:23; actual 4:22) 2-Short Intro. Edit (listed 3:53; actual 3:55) 3-R&B Remix (listed 4:04; actual 4:01) 4-LP Version (listed 5:22; actual 5:19) DPRO-12793 1-The Sensuous Mix (listed 4:13; actual 3:59) 2-The Soft Single Mix (listed 4:03; actual 3:54) |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 5:36am
| Thanks for the input Jim. |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 10:37am
| My commercial vinyl 45 is also the 4:23 (listed time) "radio edit". I don't know if the cassette single and commercial CD single are the same. Joel Whitburn lists the single's running time in Pop Annual 1955-1999 as 4:14; however, for some reason the vast majority of the early 1990's running times given in the book are short by 5 to 12 seconds. So it looks like this may simply be the single version and not just a dj edit. |
Posted By: cmmmbase
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 11:20am
| The CD single has cuts 1, 3 and 4 from the first promo cd that Jim Listed. |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 1:16pm
I have that 45 too. Oddly enough, it was one of only a handful of '90s singles to have a picture sleeve! I think that Whitburn used the cassette single for his timings for early '90s singles. It's been mentioned here before that it was quite easy for tapes to stretch, run fast, etc. and not play at the speed they were intended too. Do you think that's where the differences in timings could have occurred? I only own about 7 cass-singles because I don't really like them (rather have the CD or the vinyl), but most of the ones I saw in the '90s that had timings listed were identical to the 45. |
Paul C wrote:Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 29 April 2007 at 6:59am
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torcan:
It definitely appears to me that Whitburn's cassette singles were timed on a tape deck(s) that are miscalibrated and play at a faster than normal speed, which would explain why his run times consistently fall short. When I time my own cassette singles, I actually have to go out to my car and play them because it's the only tape deck I have that runs at the correct speed! |