It Takes Two - Rob Base
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Topic: It Takes Two - Rob Base
Posted By: Pat Downey
Subject: It Takes Two - Rob Base
Date Posted: 05 May 2005 at 8:56am
| A 3:46 version of "It Takes Two" by Rob Base has shown up on several different cd's. Does anyone know where this edit was first issued? |
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 07 May 2005 at 7:54am
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Pat:
The LP version and every commercial single copy of "It Takes Two" I've seen is the 5:00 version. But as you know, Top 40 radio stations traditionally don't like to program songs with this long of a run time so it sounds like the 3:46 version might be a radio edit. Does anyone have a promo DJ single copy of "It Takes Two" with this shortened edit? |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 11 May 2005 at 5:52pm
| I have a version on an import CD single that has the "Vocal Edit" version, which is just an edit of the LP Version. I just moved, so I don't have everything unpacked yet to verify, but the 3:46 time sounds about the same as the one on the import single. |
Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 06 September 2013 at 10:32pm
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*bump* Did anyone ever come across a DJ single that runs 3:46? ------------- 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: jimct
Date Posted: 07 September 2013 at 12:26am
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Gene, there was no promo CD single issued for this - we only got in a
promo 45. And it has the exact same, listed (4:58), actual (5:00) version that appears on the stock 45, on both sides of the promo (both sides' deadwax info are exactly the same: "PRO-5186 1-1"). FYI, our station did skip past the first :12 1/2 seconds when we played it as a current. We carted up the end result, so the song started off on-air with the "hit it". But there was never a 2nd promo 45 that trimmed off that intro (or anything else, for that matter), to my knowledge. Gene, the good news for you, at this point, is that we've long ago finished combing through all of the 80's Top 40 hits with a fine tooth comb, searching for DJ 45 short edits. I worked in the music dept of the same Top 40 station for the entire decade of the 80's. I own copies of all the promo 45s. We always got very good service from the labels, and I always kept a very careful eye out for second promos issued, with different versions included. Therefore, we've long ago documented any and all short promo 45s that existed. I hadn't replied to this thread earlier, because I didn't join Pat's board 'til '06, and the three earlier posts were all from way back to the early days of this forum, in 2005. But rest assured, I would've followed up if there was something domestically unique to report. |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 07 September 2013 at 8:39pm
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I have a 3:43 version of it on a budget CD comp I picked
up at Target called "Everybody Dance". I also have an ever shorter version of it that runs 3:31 on a CD comp called "Now That's What I Call Dance Classics". I have not listened to the differences, just reporting what I have. ------------- |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 September 2013 at 9:34pm
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Jim's memory is correct about a promo CD not existing. [The first issued promo CD by Profile Records was Rob Base's "Joy And Pain" (catalog # PCD-PRO1), which was the third single from the album, after "It Takes Two" and "Get On The Dance Floor." This same disc also includes a second song called "Love Story" by Judy Torres.]
As for the version I have from an import CD, it cuts off the intro (starting with "hit it") and edits out the last verse & chorus. The edit runs 3:35. For what it's worth, if you take the full 5:00 version and only edit out the last verse & chorus (leave the intro intact), the resulting file would be 3:47. Could that, perhaps, be the short 3:46 version on CD? I don't have a copy to check, so it's only speculation at this point. ------------- 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: boynamedfoo
Date Posted: 03 February 2015 at 6:00pm
The above mentioned cd "Now That's What I Call Dance Classics" hasn't as yet been added to the DB. |
The Hits Man wrote:Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 26 November 2020 at 11:31pm
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I'd still like to know where these 3:35 - 3:47 edits originally came from...
https://www.discogs.com/Rob-Base-DJ-E-Z-Rock-It-Takes-Two-Derek-BRemix-/release/2489327 - Here is a 7" single from Germany with a version listed at 3:30. (There's also a German maxi-single CD listing this length.) https://www.discogs.com/Rob-Base-And-DJ-E-Z-Rock-It-Takes-Two/release/222944 - Here is a UK "radio edit" listed as running 4:06. I don't find a shorter radio promo for the United States in Discogs, which continues to surprise me. ------------- 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: aaronk
Date Posted: 27 November 2020 at 12:42pm
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To my knowledge, no shorter version was ever issued in the US. The UK clearly used an edited version on their 7" single, but I don't know if the listed running time is correct. I have a copy of the German maxi CD but not the corresponding vinyl releases. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |