Streisand/Summer - No More Tears

1979 NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) released as by BARBRA STREISAND/DONNA SUMMER

The database lists the version on Columbia the '45 version' as opposed to the version on Casablanca as an 'alternate take'. Weren't they both released on 45? Can anyone share any light on this one?

Yes, i remember clearly at the time, Casablanca had the 12" release, which is remixed with a lot of extra production as i recall....and shortly thereafter included it on her first Greatest Hits 2-LP set "On The Radio".
.....and Columbia had the 45 release, a straight edit of the "Wet" LP Version.
I also recall being disappointed in the 12" version. It was too different from what i was hearing on the radio. WKTU, the disco station in NY at the time, always played the Streisand LP version, the unedited hit version. I hardly ever heard the 12"/Casablanca mix on the radio, except maybe in a weekend mix-show.
So, the way i always saw this one was that as a hit single, it is primarily a Streisand release, with Donna as guest.
-MM     

I too prefer the 12". For years, it was the only version I had (I had the On The Radio album), and not only was it injected with a booming bass beat, it also felt like an epic recording--not an 'extended' or 'remixed' version, but as if it was the definitive near-12 minute version of the song that was then chopped down, stripped, and edited for all other versions.

I heard the Columbia single on the radio as it was high on
the charts in the fall of 1979. I thought, it was
somebody's marketing plan to put the two together and the
song was just interesting. But,in December of that same
year, I heard the Casablanca 12" version on a Los Angeles
urban station and never looked back.

The database was never updated with the info in this thread, i.e.,
that the 4:47 version is not an alternate take, but an edit of the 12"
version (if this is what I get from this thread).