Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
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Topic: Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
Date Posted: 29 September 2017 at 9:07pm
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Shortly after the Jerry Maguire Mix of "Secret Garden" became a hit, it
seems a few radio stations all had the same idea of creating a Titanic mix of "My Heart Will Go On." At one time, my old top 40 station received a CD-R with the Z104 Mix. Although the disc never made it into my collection, I do have copies of three different radio station dialog mixes from a TM Century GoldDisc. There are two different Kiss FM versions (Los Angeles and Dallas) and the aforementioned Z104 Mix. Not long after, the record company jumped on the bandwagon and released their own dialog version on the Back To Titanic soundtrack. Does anyone recall hearing a dialog version on the air back in '98, and if so, was it one of the ones listed here or a different in-house edit? ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
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Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 30 September 2017 at 3:49am
| I do seem to recall hearing a version of what you're describing, but I only heard it a few times here in the Milwaukee market and couldn't tell you how it went. |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 30 September 2017 at 5:40am
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We were serviced with that on a CD-R and played it for a
couple weeks. I wasn't aware there were multiple versions. Someone also produced a version with dialog from "Gilligans Island". We didn't play that, but I have an mp3 of it if anyone's interested. |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 02 October 2017 at 12:16pm
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WPLJ in NY played a dialog mix very heavily. I recorded it
on to a Sony mini-disc at the time, when those were a thing for a very short time. But that mix was lost when my mini-disc player died. CDR's had then arrived so I never had the player fixed. I don't know if WPLJ made the mix themselves or if it was serviced to them. Their mix was the only one I heard that used the "hit" version of the song. The mix I heard on other stations was made from the soundtrack recording. MM |
Posted By: radiofan16
Date Posted: 03 October 2017 at 12:12am
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The local Philly Hot AC station Star 104.5 or WYXR, played the "dialog" mix for
the single's entire chart and recurrent, possibly because the AC station B101 was playing the regular version. The song ended with Kate Winslet saying "I'll never let go" and at the beginning, I recall the phrase "It is insinkable" being repeated. The line "Iceberg right ahead!" appeared in the middle. |
Posted By: thecdguy
Date Posted: 07 April 2020 at 3:46pm
I remember that well. But I think there may have been at least a small difference in the version that Star 104 played versus the one that appears on the "Back To Titanic" soundtrack. For some reason, I remember thinking that the Back To Titanic version sounded different than what I'd heard on the radio. ------------- Dan In Philly |
radiofan16 wrote:Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 07 April 2020 at 5:55pm
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The "Back To Titanic" CD didn't come out until the song had already sunk on the charts. (Song peaked on the Hot 100 in February 1998. Soundtrack released Aug. 1998.) Any stations playing a dialog mix had likely been doing so long before this, and I doubt any of them switched to the "official" soundtrack dialog mix. ------------- 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: 07 April 2020 at 8:06pm
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Love that pun about the song having sunk on the charts, Aaron. Good one!
I just listened to the Back To Titanic mix, and there's no "It Is Insinkable" at all at the beginning like radiofan16 mentioned and I also didn't hear "Iceberg right ahead" in the middle, either. But the mix DOES end with Kate Winslet saying, "I'll never let go". I guess that explains why the Back To Titanic mix sounded a little different to me when I first heard it. I had forgotten that it had been released several months after the original Titanic soundtrack, and Sony apparently did their own dialogue mix. I never would have imagined there were multiple mixes of it, like you mentioned in the first post. By the way, for anyone who might dislike the song, take into consideration that it could have been #1 much longer than 2 weeks if it had been released as a single earlier. By the time it was released, the airplay was so high that the single was assured of debuting at #1, which it did. It was later that same year that Billboard began including Airplay-only songs onto the chart. ------------- Dan In Philly |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 08 April 2020 at 4:35am
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i have a mini-disc player!! ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 08 April 2020 at 6:04am
Yep. #1 for 9 weeks (CHR) in Radio & Records! |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 08 April 2020 at 4:14pm
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Curious to know which version of "My Heart Will Go On"
each station decided to add the dialog to? I heard the "Let's Talk About Love" album version more often than the version that was on the "Titanic" soundtrack album. Not sure if they are entirely different performances or only different in certain places but the ending vocal phrases are, for me, the most easy identifiers. I think I only ever heard the soundtrack version on the radio once during the song's initial run and it was during its descent down the charts. ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 12:24pm
Contributing to this is the fact that Sony only released 500,000 copies of the single (as per Billboard at the time) - enough to ensure it went gold, but probably far less than it naturally would have sold. Oddly, this was Celine's first Hot 100 single not to be released on a vinyl 45. |
Posted By: thecdguy
Date Posted: 10 April 2020 at 1:08pm
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They probably didn't feel the need to release a 45 because they were looking to get a #1 debut, and by that time CD and Cassette Singles had long been outselling 45's. I don't know if sales of 45's even counted toward chart positions at the time, especially when the labels by then had been withholding certain songs from single release, or pressing only limited runs of others, like this song. ------------- Dan In Philly |
Posted By: prisdeej
Date Posted: 01 May 2020 at 3:10pm
Going from memory, WPRO-FM in Providence played a version that had an additional 30 seconds? of orchestration and dialog before the actual start of the song. The rest continued on the same way as the movie dialog edited versions mentioned above. I had downloaded this version from Limewire some 20 years ago, but it's long gone. I would love to know where this version originates. ------------- DJ L. |
Posted By: promojunkie
Date Posted: 25 August 2020 at 7:07am
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Does anyone own the promo cd of My Heart Will Go On
with the 3 radio station versions? I am curious if the disc came with artwork or just a no frills cd. I have a rip of the disc but do not have it in my promo cd collection. Below are the listed and actual times of the single. 1-My Heart Will Go On (Titanic Z 104 Mix) (listed 4:37, actual 4:42) 2-My Heart Will Go On (Nick's KIIS Mix) (listed 4:28, actual 4:33) 3-My Heart Will Go On (Kiss Dallas Mix) (listed 4:26, actual 4:30) |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 25 August 2020 at 1:36pm
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I've not personally come across a 3-track promo with all the various radio station mixes, but I see it listed on Discogs. Back when the song was a hit, the top 40 station where I worked received a CD-R 1-track promo with only the Z104 Mix. I don't believe it came from Columbia/Sony. It looked more like something that would've been passed around between stations. I think it had an adhesive label with the artist, title, and "Z104 Mix," but I could be mistaken about that, too. ------------- 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: 25 August 2020 at 5:42pm
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Does anybody know which version starts with Jack saying
"Just give me your hand, I'll pull you back over" at :06? This is the version that Fun 107/New Bedford MA played - it was also a one-track CD-R but wasn't credited to anyone or a particular station. I ripped it from the CD when I was working there; I also have the Z104 mix in my library from Top Hits USA. Fun 107's version was definitely an early one... the dialog sounds like it was recorded on a cassette in the theater. |
Posted By: promojunkie
Date Posted: 25 August 2020 at 7:02pm
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I've listened to all three versions on the promo cd rip
I have and none of them have that intro. I wasn't aware there was a 1 track promo as well. I was working at KISS 108 in Medford/Boston back in '98 and they played the KISS Dallas Mix for a few weeks. |
Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 25 August 2020 at 7:39pm
Aaron, I also looked up the mixes on TM Century. Is the "Niks KIIS Mix" the one you are referencing as the Los Angeles Mix? All I see is the "Titanic Z104 Mix" and the "KISS Dallas Mix" and the "Niks KIIS Mix." There is a "Tony Moran Mix' but, I'll bet that one has a dance track laid on it. Oh, and that one is on a HitDisc. ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
Posted By: radiofan16
Date Posted: 27 January 2022 at 4:40am
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Here's the Kiss Dallas Mix. This is not the version I heard back in 1998, so I'm guessing it was either the "Z104 Mix" or the "Niks KIIS Mix". If anybody has both, fell free to shoot them over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3LQPyBz2I - Celine Dion-My Heart Will Go On(Kiss Dallas Mix) |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 29 January 2022 at 1:09am
Hey, that describes the version I heard on WPLJ in NY at the time. I remember well the intro was orchestral taken from elsewhere on the soundtrack, then after about 30 secs it cross-faded into the single version with dialog. And, my memory is fading but I think it ended with Rose saying "he exists now, only in my memory". That is only dialog mix I've heard that used the LP/Single version - all other dialog mixes I've heard use the soundtrack recording. And to answer a question from earlier in this thread, the soundtrack version (heard at the end of the film) is a completely different recording from what ended up on her album "Let's Talk About Love" and the single. I saw her in an old interview and she said they approached her at the last minute to record this theme - at first, she turned it down. So they brought her to a private viewing of the film, after which she agreed to sing the theme. So they set up a quickie recording session and she sang the version you hear at the end and on the soundtrack. But she said that version was rushed. Weeks later they set up an extended recording session to make what would be the "hit" version and what she wanted on her album. MM |
Posted By: cristianmdp
Date Posted: 20 February 2022 at 5:48am
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Hi everyone.
I need information of edit points to reconstruct track #2 from this promo: https://www.discogs.com/release/5777451-Celine-Dion-Mi-Corazon-Seguira-Adelante-My-Heart-Will-Go-On - My Heart Will Go On (Edit) (3:12) I have not been able to find a physical copy at an affordable price, nor a real rip of it, so I've no idea how it was edited for that promo. If anyone has info about it, could you please share? Thanks a lot!!! |