ub40 "can’t help falling in love"
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Topic: ub40 "can’t help falling in love"
Posted By: edtop40
Subject: ub40 "can’t help falling in love"
Date Posted: 20 February 2008 at 8:04pm
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my cassingle issued as virgin 12653 contains a non described version which runs 3:23......this cassingle version sounds slightly different than the version from the cd
(S) (3:26) Virgin 88229 Promises And Lies is it possible that the version from the soundtrack is slightly remixed and shorter in length than the above cd version.....i don't have the soundtrack and promises cd to compare them.....but they definitely are different....can anyone else confirm my suspicions?...also...the cassingle doesn't mention the cd "promises and lies" at all in the credits.....i just says "from the upcoming ub40 album and also from the movie soundtrack "sliver"......this also adds to my suspicions...the running times match up properly as well...cassingle and "sliver" versions both run 3:23 while all others run 3:25-3:26..... ------------- edtop40 |
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Posted By: TimNeely
Date Posted: 21 February 2008 at 9:37am
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My U.S. 45 rpm copy (Virgin S7-17402, the so-called "For Jukeboxes Only" issue) has a label that states 3:24, but it actually plays 3:19.
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 23 February 2008 at 3:39pm
| Yes Ed I do hear a difference between the "Sliver" and Promises And Lies" cd versions. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 5:08pm
| I think I may have had "Can't Help Falling in Love" on CD single at one time and I sold it after I bought UB40's Promises and Lies CD. Had I known at the time that the single and album version were different, I wouldn't have parted with the CD single. :-( |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 9:21pm
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pat...thanks for the confirmation!! ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: thecdguy
Date Posted: 28 September 2020 at 7:27am
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So is it safe to say that there are 3 different versions of this song? The Single Version, the "Promises And Lies" Album Version and the "Sliver" Soundtrack Album Version? ------------- Dan In Philly |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 02 May 2021 at 3:00pm
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Ed,
There was no talking intro when they played it in 1993 in NY. The 3:01 Edit on Virgin D-Pro 12794 was the go to version that got airplay. I don't know about other areas but Z100 and WPLJ rarely had songs with talking intros. the 3:01 cuts off the 20 seconds of talk. So if the single version is the hit version anyone, please let me know what area it was you were in. I don't consider what the cassette was as I don't have that version. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: thecdguy
Date Posted: 02 May 2021 at 3:46pm
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All I ever heard on the radio here in Philadelphia was the talking intro. I was surprised to find out years later a version
existed without it. ------------- Dan In Philly |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 02 May 2021 at 7:46pm
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What is the "talking" intro? I've never heard any version of the song that has talking. ------------- 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: thecdguy
Date Posted: 03 May 2021 at 4:17am
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I think we're just referring to the opening words on the
single version's intro that sort of sound like they're being half sung, half spoken. "Talking" probably wasn't the best way to describe it, lol. ------------- Dan In Philly |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 03 May 2021 at 9:48am
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Sorry Aaron, its the 20 seconds of speech by UB40 that opens the single version instead of starting on the instrumental. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 03 May 2021 at 10:05am
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Oh, okay. That portion sounds fully sung to my ears (just without any percussion behind it), so I was confused about the "talking." ------------- 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: BSharp
Date Posted: 03 May 2021 at 1:55pm
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There's one version that has a busier-sounding
bassline... I'm pretty sure it's on UB40's album but is not the hit version from the Sliver soundtrack. The soundtrack version was the one that got serviced to radio - everybody got the version that started with the singing of the first verse with minimal instrumentation (just a keyboard-string background), but many stations cued past that to get to the part where the beat kicks in. The 3:01 version without that sung intro was then sent to radio. |
Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 03 May 2021 at 3:58pm
I would call the intro as sung "Acapella." I'm going to have to revisit it to find the "Minimal Instrumentation." As far as I remember, it was only the singer. ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
BSharp wrote:Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 03 May 2021 at 6:33pm
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There are definitely synthesizers along with the singing, although they
are at a low volume level. ------------- 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: radiofan16
Date Posted: 04 May 2021 at 3:04pm
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Here's the "Promises And Lies" version. The only difference is that Ali's vocals
are dry and lower in the mix during the first verse. On the "Sliver" hit version, there's a delay on his vocals making them sound thicker. The drum machine is lower in the mix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptF1uSUP6hM&t=48s - UB40- Promises And Lies Version |
Posted By: BSharp
Date Posted: 04 May 2021 at 4:39pm
The basslines are also completely different. In that "Promises & Lies" version, the bassline doesn't follow the chord changes like it does in the single mix. It's almost as though they re-wrote it to make the song more musical and just a bit less reggae- influenced. |
Posted By: BSharp
Date Posted: 04 May 2021 at 4:44pm
| Duplicate post. Sorry. |
Posted By: VWestlife
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 5:01pm
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The music video has the single mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajp0Uaw4rqo |