Sugar Ray - Fly
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Topic: Sugar Ray - Fly
Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Sugar Ray - Fly
Date Posted: 08 July 2010 at 11:19pm
My copy of Floored contains two versions of "Fly"--one with and one without Super Cat. My CD is the edited version with catalog number 83034-2. The "featuring Super Cat" version is track 4, while the other is track 13.
Pat already lists details of the promo CD in the database, but for those curious...
PRCD-8149
1. Fly - Radio Edit 3:58; actual 4:04
2. Fly - Pop Edit 3:58; actual 4:04
3. Fly - Rock Edit 3:58; actual 4:04
- Radio Edit is an edit of the LP version with Super Cat
- Pop Edit is the same, but it replaces the heavy guitar section in the middle with the intro music
- Rock Edit is the LP version without Super Cat
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Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 09 July 2010 at 5:17am
Is "Super Cat" that annoying "wah-uh-wuh-uh-wuh-uh" in the chorus? The Hot AC I do engineering work for plays a version of this with that part mixed out. The current PD didn't work there when the song was dubbed into the automation and doesn't know where it came from. Not sure I've heard this mix anywhere else.
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 July 2010 at 7:20am
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Yeah, Super Cat is the Jamaican guy who ad-libs throughout the song. The "Rock Mix" on the promo CD and my copy of the full-length album doesn't have Super Cat.
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Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 29 June 2020 at 6:35am
The database does not currently incorporate Aaron's
info that there are two versions of "Fly" on the
Floored CD, a (4:51) version that features
Super Cat and a (4:04) version (identical to the 'Rock
Mix' on the promo CD although not identified as such)
that does not feature Super Cat (and is the only version
that does not feature him).
The "Radio Edit" was issued on European CD singles and
on the Canadian compilation, Pop 2000, but does
not appear to have ever been commercially released in
the US.
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Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 30 June 2020 at 4:16pm
I moved across the country from New Jersey to Houston,
Texas while this song was running its course to
becoming a radio hit.
Upon initially hearing it played on radio in New Jersey
before it was considered a hit, it was definitely the
pop edit being played. The song began climbing the
charts and getting blanket exposure right when I
arrived in Houston. I heard the Edit of the LP version
mostly (I remember being taken aback when I first heard
the heavy middle section and more of the Super Cat
rapping than I'd heard on Jersey radio). I don't
remember if it was an in-house edit or the one that was
serviced to stations already.
104.1 KRBE (pop top 40) played the pop edit mostly,
pitched up to a faster tempo as was all of their music.
The other stations that played it seemed to mostly
cycle through the edits with and without the rap
(depending on the time of day, it seems... rarely heard
the rap one in the morning).
It's one of my first conscious memories of witnessing a
song taking off. And it was played A LOT. Eventually,
"Fly", like pretty much every hit from this era, was
overplayed to death. Luckily, they were able to avoid
being stuck in the one-hit-wonder bin by sticking to
their newfound hit formula and issuing "Every Morning"
(and their follow-up album which featured equally
catchy "Every Morning" sound-alikes).
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