MILLI VANILLI - "Girl I’m Gonna Miss You"

ok.....i don't know why they do these kind of things.....but it's very annoying......my commercial 45 of the milli vanilli song "girl i'm gonna miss you" issued as arista 9870, states a run time of 4:19 but like abagon notes above, really runs 4:23...that's not a big deal because we see that often enough....what really gets me going is that the version found on the promo cd single has the oboe break from 3:16 to 3:23 in the wrong channel......the 45 has it in the left channel while the promo cd has it in the right channel.....i will pose this question to our illustrious panel....why would they go through trouble of doing this.....the responses i'm sure will be numerous.......

It's just a L/R channel reversal, not a new mix. If I
remember correctly, most, if not all, of the tracks on the
Hits That Shook The World promo sampler have their L/R
channels reversed. It's a known issue with the Milli
Vanilli hits.

So...
I find Milli Vanilli's discography to be very confusing for an artist that came
out in 1988.

On my version of the full length CD "Girl You Know It's True," the song "I'm
Gonna Miss You" (titled that way) is listed as 4:19, but runs 4:23. My
version is ARCD-8592 like what's listed in the database, has a 1988/1989
copyright date, and has US designations all over it, such as stating
"Manufactured in USA for Arista Records" (so it's not an import).

The problem is that the database says that the version of "I'm Gonna Miss
You" on Arista 8592 runs 3:57 like the original vinyl LP. Pretty sure that my
4:23 version is the 45 version which appears to have been switched on to
the CD at some point.

Were there 2 pressings under the same catalog number?

All of the other Milli Vanilli "hits" on this CD seem to match what's listed in
the db.

I have four different pressings of the Girl You Know It's True CD.

I found four different suffixes for the matrix number, which I've detailed below. I didn't include the various record club pressings, which all match one of the four.

Matrix number: "-1" "-2" "-3" "-4"
Girl You Know It's True   4:12.7 4:13.1 4:12.7 4:12.7
Baby Don't Forget My Number   6:28.3 4:16.6 4:16.6 4:16.6
More Than You'll Ever Know   4:00.1 4:32.1 4:32.1 4:32.1
Blame It On The Rain   4:19.3 4:19.2 4:19.2 4:19.2
Take It As It Comes   3:41.6 4:15.4 4:15.4 4:15.4
It's Your Thing   3:51.4   3:51.4 3:51.4 3:51.5
Dreams To Remember   3:54.5   3:54.5 3:54.5 3:54.5
All Or Nothing   3:17. 1 3:17.1 3:17.1 3:17.1
I'm Gonna Miss You   3:57.6   3:57.6 3:57.6 4:24.3
Girl You Know It's True (N.Y. Subway Extended Mix)   6:29.2 6:27.5 6:29.3 6:29.3
Total CD playing time: 44:15 43:09 43:09 43:36

It doesn't display cleanly here, but you get the idea.

Edited by crapfromthepast

I hadn't dug into what was on the LP. I have a copy with "RE-1" in the matrix number of the A-side (not on the B-side), so there's more than one LP pressing out there. The RE-1 printed times roughly match the "-2" CD pressing, except that "More Than You'll Ever Know" has a printed time of 5:30 on the RE-1 LP. Don't know what's actually on the vinyl, since I've never played it.