Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

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.

Edited by AdvprosD

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

I have never heard the term 'baking' while doing my laundry
LOL

Brian W. wrote: Great story. Yeah, I thought Rick Astley was black the first time I heard him on the radio, too.

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