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Originally posted by crapfromthepast crapfromthepast wrote:

The US 45 (EMI NR-50283) has a
printed time of 3:59 and a designation of "Edit".

I have this edit on:
  • Mystic Music Presents
    Cool Rock     (Cema Special Markets, 1995)



The Cool Rock commercial is forever engrained into
my mind. It's incredibly hard for me to not think of it
whenever I happen to hear one of those songs.
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Originally posted by EdisonLite EdisonLite wrote:


I listened to the 1987 'Christmas for the Broken
Hearted version' on the Youtube link you provided.
What I find interesting is that track (of 4:44) is
quite different than the long spanish-language track
that was used on Baladas. Besides the 1st 4 seconds of
the 1987 version being removed from the Spanish
version (the hi-hats-only part), the 1987 version is
also missing the electric guitar in the intro which
provides the basic melody in the intro. (Just pointing
out 1 example). So are you saying this spanish version
is the 1st 4:40-ish version to use this exact backing
track - and going out to the 4:40 point? I'm still
trying to figure out where the 4:40 track (the
instrumental part, not the spanish vocals obviously)
came from. Did it first appear here? Wasn't everything
else 4:19 or less (besides the orginal christmas mix)?


First of all, I'm glad that I could help. The reason
that the Spanish version of "It Must Have Been Love"
("No Se Si Es Emor") has a slightly different sounding
instrumental/backing track is because, as far as I
know, it was re-recorded from scratch in 1996 for the
"Baladas en Espanol" release. In other words, they
simply did not use a pre-existing instrumental/backing
track of the past (1990 or 1987) and sing over it.

So, yes, as far as I know, this 1996 Spanish version
is the very first version of the song to use this
"new" (meaning 1996) instrumental/backing track. In
fact, it is the only version of the song to use this
backing track, as far as I know, as again, it would
have been recorded specifically for "Baladas en
Espanol" in 1996. It was probably decided to draw this
version out to 4:41 instead of fading it out earlier
(like the 1990 version).

I am by no means a Roxette expert, but I'm a huge fan
and have followed them quite a bit over the past 20
years. Hopefully, I understood what you were asking
and answered your questions. If not, let me know.
Jason Bellenger

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Yes you answered it Jason. Thanks. That explains it clearly. But it makes me wonder why they didn't just use the existing backing track from 1990, which was so great. Maybe they did the "Baladas" album for another label and weren't allowed to use it? If not, it just doesn't make much sense to spend the time/effort/money to re-record it. It's not like they made it sound like a more Spanish-music influenced recording.
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Maybe the idea was to give some of these, at the time,
older recordings a more modern touch by re-recording
them from scratch. Not sure. "Baladas en Espanol" was
released on the label to which they had been signed
since "Pearls of Passion" in 1986 (EMI Records), so it
was not a label issue.
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Originally posted by EdisonLite EdisonLite wrote:


I listened to the 1987 'Christmas for the Broken Hearted version' on the Youtube link you provided.


That original Christmas For The Broken Hearted mix is available digitally on Qobuz FYI if anyone wants it along with the LA 1992 version:

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/it-must-have-been-love-rox ette/0825646124688

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