Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
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Topic: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Posted By: jimct
Subject: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Date Posted: 05 May 2014 at 5:08pm
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All current db CDs include the same, 45 and LP version of this song. Since
it was a #1 hit in early 1988, I thought I'd share the contents of my promo 12" single (RCA 6784-1-RDCD): Side C: (where side A and B went, I have no idea!) 1-Cake Mix (listed 5:46) 2-Instrumental (listed 6:19) Side D: 1-Escape To New York Mix (listed 7:01) 2-(non-described version) (listed 3:31) RCA opted, however, to ship out this promo 12" single in a stock 12" outer sleeve. With no drill mark, punch hole, UPC symbol cross-out, or no promo stamp. But a white label, 12" vinyl promo copy is found to be inside. FYI, the outer cover's UPC stock # is 7863-56784-1. On the cover, it states that the second track on "Side 2" as being "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape From Newton Mix) (no listed time). RCA chose to replace this last track with the 45/LP version on the promo 12", for obvious reasons, which makes that "...Newton Mix" unique to the stock 12" single. |
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Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 9:56am
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I was looking over a "100 Hit" collection under the Demon Music Group label. The cover doesn't say it, but the disc data popped up with a version called [7" Mix], 3:33.
I haven't looked around much about the version, though assume it's the 45 version. As I also assume by the first post, this is the same as the LP version. ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 24 October 2022 at 8:36pm
Yes, the LP version is the single version.
RCA often did this with promo 12"s in this era. If the promo has the same master plates as the retail, the retail cat# probably ends in RD and the promo cat# ends in RDAB, with sides labeled A & B. If the promo is different from retail, the promo cat# probably ends in RDCD and the sides are labeled C & D. They also did RDAA for double-A-sided promos. |
jimct wrote:Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 01 November 2022 at 11:53pm
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Side tracking this thread for a moment.
I remember the first day I heard this. It was in a record store I used to frequent because it was in a mall where I did my laundry. While clothes were baking, I'd shop this little record store with a big disco/DJ/Dance section. The owner was at the counter and he had this record playing on a 12" single. This was WELL before it broke on radio. So after hearing it 2 times I went to the counter and asked "what is this??" The hook got me. He handed me the picture cover of the 12" with a photo of the singer and said this is it...I was expecting a black singer with that voice and I'm seeing a red-haired white guy and I'm like "whaa??" Really??? So I said "I'll take one" ... and he said he's been playing it all day and every single person who heard it in the store came up and bought one. So he says "you wait, this is gonna be a #1 hit...you wait and see" .... I thought well, not likely, it's too "disco" sounding to be a hit in 1987 .... but I liked it anyway and bought it. WELL, shows what I know! He was right! And he was right a month before the country made it a #1 hit. MM |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 02 November 2022 at 12:26pm
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Great story. Yeah, I thought Rick Astley was black the
first time I heard him on the radio, too. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 02 November 2022 at 3:16pm
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I have never heard the term 'baking' while doing my laundry
LOL ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 02 November 2022 at 7:36pm
Nice story. Sounds like he "rick rolled" you in 1987 before the video was even out. Sorry couldn't resist. For those who don't know what that means, you can always watch the video link below :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 03 November 2022 at 3:24am
I thought when I first heard "It Would Take A Strong, Strong Man" on the radio that a 45 rpm cut was carted up at 33 1/3... (This was in the 'twilight zone' era where not everything was played on the air from CD.) Andy |
Posted By: VWestlife
Date Posted: 03 November 2022 at 9:06pm
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Radio stations were definitely still getting new music on 45s in 1987-1988. This copy of the "Never Gonna Give You Up" promo 45 came from 95.5 WPLJ in New York City, who wrote "carted" on the cover when they copied it to a tape cart to play on the air:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5pfTE3ONGc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5pfTE3ONGc |