Corey Hart - "It Ain’t Enough"

The two Youtube clips were placed there by Unidisc,
which a few years ago purchased Aquarius Records, the
Canadian indie label to which Corey Hart was signed.
The other big act they had was April Wine. Capitol/EMI
held an option to release Aquarius material in the US
(and, I believe, worldwide). Capitol released Corey
Hart on their EMI America label and April Wine on its
main Capitol label.

Both "Sunglasses At Night" and "It Ain't Enough" were
much bigger chart hits in the US than in Canada, and
that may well have been because Canada did not yet
have a cable music video channel at the time.
"Sunglasses At Night" (Aquarius 6007) only reached #24
on the chart of the Canadian trade publication
RPM in March 1984. By the time "Sunglasses At
Night" peaked at #7 in Billboard in September, "It
Ain't Enough" had already fallen off the RPM
chart, having peaked at #71. Both songs did not start
receiving heavy Canadian airplay until they became US
hits, but they did not re-enter the Canadian charts
(they apparently were already being considered
recurrents). The first Canadian 45 pressings of "It
Ain't Enough" (Aquarius 6011) are what is labeled on
Youtube as 'Version 1'. Later Canadian 45 pressings
(Aquarius 6011 Rev.) are 'Version 2', described on the
label as "New Video Mix", of which I purchased a copy
after it had made the Billboard Top 40. The Canadian
"New Video Mix" 45 (which even had a different picture
sleeve than the original issue) was most likely not
issued until after the song had already fallen off the
RPM chart. That, going by the label numbers, Aquarius
released only three singles between the first two
Corey Hart singles is an indication of how small a
label it was.

I am a bit suspicious about some of the relevant
release dates on Discogs. They are likely taken from
the copyright dates.

I am surprised to learn from the database and this
thread that the original version was released at all
in the US, as I have always assumed that the second
version was the work of Capitol/EMI America and not
Aquarius.

Interesting info Paul C - especially that these 1st 2 US Corey Hart singles didn't do nearly as well in his home country. I never knew that. Second thing: In 1984 Canada didn't yet have a music video channel? That surprises me so much because we got our 1st one on Aug 1, 1981. And with the close proximity of Canada, I would have assumed Canada would have had an equivalent channel within a year of that.

I get what you're saying about these 2 songs not re-charting after their big US success. But did the singles from Corey's next album (presumably after Corey's US success) do much better on the Canadian charts?

And speaking of which, is there a Canadian charts book I can buy? Like our Whitburn Top Pop Singles in the US?

On a side note:

First Corey Hart Promo 12" serviced to U.S. AOR was
"Sunglasses At Night" long/short SPRO-9097.

Next, the LP 'First Offence' was serviced to AOR (with
the original "It Ain't Enough" as I mentioned in an
earlier post).

Then, a two-sided Promo 12" SPRO-9202 was issued to
AOR - the tracks "Lamp At Midnite" (I believe this
track was the same mix as the Lp) & the ORIGINAL mix
of "It Ain't Enough".

Lastly, when "It Ain't Enough" was slated to be the
2nd 45 off the album a new AOR Promo 12" SPRO-9259
was issued with both sides the NEW mix of "It Ain't
Enough" (although it wasn't labeled remix or new mix).

I hope this info might be of any interest to anybody
out there...

Andy