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Topic: Marc Anthony - I Need to Know
Posted: 20 August 2020 at 11:35am

The album version of Marc Anthony's "I Need to Know"
runs 3:47. The promo CD single for "I Need to Know"
contains a shorter version running 3:31 as track 1 and
the album version as track 2.

https://www.discogs.com/es/Marc-Anthony-I-Need-To-
Know/release/5060335

There is an even shorter version featured on the
promotional CD Promo Only Mainstream Radio: August
99 running 3:17.

https://www.discogs.com/es/Various-Promo-Only-
Mainstream-Radio-August-99/release/5231785

How do both shorter edits differ each other from the
album version?

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Posted: 20 August 2020 at 5:16pm

The album version's intro is twice as long... both the
initial part (with the violins/strings) is repeated,
as is the instrumental part with the horns and drums.
It's about 31 seconds until the vocal comes in.

The album version also contains a conga drum solo
starting at 2:14, and the ending acapella chorus is
repeated 2x vs 1x on the single edit.

I'm only familiar with the shortest version (which is
also on Top Hits USA's RH56 CD and runs 3:19 there but
includes their standard "Ultrasonic Q" tone at the
end). Based on the time difference, my guess is that
the 3:31 version has the same intro as the album
version but omits the conga solo and has the shorter
acapella ending.

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Posted: 16 October 2020 at 8:49pm

I have the promo cd single (CSK 42471). The runtime on
track 1 is incorrect. The 3:17 version you are
mentioning from promo only and top hits is the same.
There is no 3:31 version to my knowledge. There are 3
edit points of the album version to arrive at the 3:17
version.

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Posted: 17 October 2020 at 7:03am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVzw9wVd9o

It seems that the music video for "I Need to Know" uses
the 3:17. Can anyone confirm this?

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Posted: 06 August 2023 at 7:04pm

promojunkie wrote:

I have the promo cd single (CSK
42471). The runtime on
track 1 is incorrect. The 3:17 version you are
mentioning from promo only and top hits is the same.
There is no 3:31 version to my knowledge. There are 3
edit points of the album version to arrive at the 3:17
version.

I found a 3:31 version which is a remix known as "Track
Masters Remix" rather than an edit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcyvwX8HG1M

This remix appears on most of the "I Need to Know"
entries on Discogs, so it is possible that the runtime on
track 1 of the promo CD single (CSK 42471) was a misprint
since the single version actually runs 3:17.