Belinda Carlisle - "Circle In The Sand"
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Topic: Belinda Carlisle - "Circle In The Sand"
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Subject: Belinda Carlisle - "Circle In The Sand"
Date Posted: 19 November 2010 at 7:04pm
My 1996 copy of Pat's book lists 6 CDs with the LP version and none with the 45 version. The 45 is a different mix and can't be recreated from the LP version.
The 45 versions run about 3:39 and the LP versions run about 4:24.
To hear the mix differences, listen for the 2-note acoustic guitar part that's four beats into the song. If there's a very faint answering chord, it's the LP mix. If there's a very strong answering chord, it's the 45 mix.
The LP version is readily available. I like the version on Cosmopolitan Vol. 4, but Her Greatest Hits sounds nice as well.
I have the 45 version on the promo-only 4-CD set MCA Hits Sampler (1988), and on the UK 2-CD Now That's What I Call Music 12 (1988), and both sound quite nice. It's also on The A List Disc 45 (1994), but I think there may be noise reduction applied to it (bad). And it's also on the UK 2-CD Now The Millennium Series 1988 (1999), where it has a little compression/limiting applied to it (bad).
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Posted By: RichM921
Date Posted: 20 November 2010 at 8:01pm
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Thanks for the great info, as always. I think I've seen the single mix on a TM Century GoldDisc too. I think it was one of the update discs, but I forget which one.
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 20 November 2010 at 8:43pm
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I've seen the 45 mix on the import Place On Earth: Greatest Hits.
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Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 30 November 2010 at 9:22am
Another way to tell one mix from the other: the 45 version
has sea wave sounds right before the final chorus kicks in.
That effect is absent on the album version.
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Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 03 May 2013 at 7:01pm
The recent Icon CD release for Belinda includes the 45
version of this song (first time on a domestic release).
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Santi Paradoa
Miami, Florida
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 08 July 2014 at 5:22am
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Does anyone own the US promo 45 for "Circle in the Sand"? I'd like to know if it gives a name to the 45 version. (For example, "I Get Weak" is referred to as "Short Version" on the promo.) But I can't find an image of the white label US promo online anywhere.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 08 July 2014 at 11:41am
Brian, both sides of my 1988 promo 45 include the same, listed time (3:40),
non-described version on it.
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 08 July 2014 at 2:28pm
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Thanks, Jim. The single mix is called the 7" Version on the original 12-inch UK and German imports, so I guess that's what I'll call it.
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Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 14 July 2014 at 9:52am
This 45 version is on her recent Icon CD. Too bad the
mastering is hot.
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