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Thread started 07/01/09 12:57am

vainandy

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"Call Me" (98.7 KISS Mastermix) by Skyy...anybody ever heard this version?



They used to play this version in my area all the time back in 1981 and for years I thought it was the actual 12 Inch version of the song and have been searching for it ever since. As it turns out, it was a special remix made at a New York radio station. How the hell did it make it onto the airwaves all the way down in Jackson, Mississippi? lol

Anyway, anybody else ever heard this version?
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Reply #1 posted 07/01/09 1:02am

Timmy84

I remember vaguely hearing it here in North Carolina. smile
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Reply #2 posted 07/01/09 1:13am

vainandy

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Timmy84 said:

I remember vaguely hearing it here in North Carolina. smile


Damn, now how the hell do you remember hearing it? You're little ass wasn't even born yet. lol But seriously, seeing that it was a remix made for a New York radio station, I just assumed it was made for that station exclusively and after it went out of style, was probably never heard again. Now, how it made it all the way down here back then, I have no clue. Maybe the station got together with Skyy and agreed to let them distribute the remix to stations accross the country. Hell, I don't know. lol
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Reply #3 posted 07/01/09 1:15am

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Damn, now how the hell do you remember hearing it? You're little ass wasn't even born yet. lol But seriously, seeing that it was a remix made for a New York radio station, I just assumed it was made for that station exclusively and after it went out of style, was probably never heard again. Now, how it made it all the way down here back then, I have no clue. Maybe the station got together with Skyy and agreed to let them distribute the remix to stations accross the country. Hell, I don't know. lol


Because they play different mixes of songs on the radio when they have '80s night on Friday's. smile
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Reply #4 posted 07/01/09 1:19am

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Timmy84 said:

vainandy said:



Damn, now how the hell do you remember hearing it? You're little ass wasn't even born yet. lol But seriously, seeing that it was a remix made for a New York radio station, I just assumed it was made for that station exclusively and after it went out of style, was probably never heard again. Now, how it made it all the way down here back then, I have no clue. Maybe the station got together with Skyy and agreed to let them distribute the remix to stations accross the country. Hell, I don't know. lol


Because they play different mixes of songs on the radio when they have '80s night on Friday's. smile


I wish we had a station down here that would do different things on the weekend like they used to. Down here, Friday and Saturday nights are just the same ole shit as during the week. I don't even turn my radio on and strictly play my own music. But I do know what the radio plays though, because I hear it in the car when I'm gone to make a beer run. lol
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Reply #5 posted 07/01/09 1:32am

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I wish we had a station down here that would do different things on the weekend like they used to. Down here, Friday and Saturday nights are just the same ole shit as during the week. I don't even turn my radio on and strictly play my own music. But I do know what the radio plays though, because I hear it in the car when I'm gone to make a beer run. lol


I hear you. I even heard the rare 13-minute version of "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" by the Gap Band, you know the one where you can clearly hear bombs going off?
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Reply #6 posted 07/01/09 1:46am

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At the time there was a compilation-album released with mixes of Shep Pettibone, although Skyy isn't on the one below. I think there's one or a few others of those compilations. Some have also been reissued on cd.


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Timmy84 said:

vainandy said:



Damn, now how the hell do you remember hearing it? You're little ass wasn't even born yet. lol But seriously, seeing that it was a remix made for a New York radio station, I just assumed it was made for that station exclusively and after it went out of style, was probably never heard again. Now, how it made it all the way down here back then, I have no clue. Maybe the station got together with Skyy and agreed to let them distribute the remix to stations accross the country. Hell, I don't know. lol


Because they play different mixes of songs on the radio when they have '80s night on Friday's. smile


Not only that but, there were other stations with those call letters, who also used 98.7's Mastermixes. So, for Timmy to have heard it would not be that unusual.
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Reply #8 posted 07/01/09 9:53am

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vainandy said:



They used to play this version in my area all the time back in 1981 and for years I thought it was the actual 12 Inch version of the song and have been searching for it ever since. As it turns out, it was a special remix made at a New York radio station. How the hell did it make it onto the airwaves all the way down in Jackson, Mississippi? lol

Anyway, anybody else ever heard this version?
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Yup, one of our DJ'S here in Philly, Greg "G-Force" Evans, used to through this in the mix when he had his own Saturday Night show a few years back.
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Reply #9 posted 07/01/09 2:47pm

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cool,I've never heard this mix.
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Reply #10 posted 07/01/09 6:10pm

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Timmy84 said:



Because they play different mixes of songs on the radio when they have '80s night on Friday's. smile


Not only that but, there were other stations with those call letters, who also used 98.7's Mastermixes. So, for Timmy to have heard it would not be that unusual.



WRKS 98.7 This mastermix album was originally on Prelude and long out of print as an original. I think the re issue on Ram's horn is as well.
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Reply #11 posted 07/01/09 6:17pm

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Aww shit dancing jig
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Reply #12 posted 07/02/09 6:26am

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Shango said:

At the time there was a compilation-album released with mixes of Shep Pettibone, although Skyy isn't on the one below. I think there's one or a few others of those compilations. Some have also been reissued on cd.




I need that album! lol
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Reply #13 posted 07/02/09 6:46am

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SoulAlive said:


I need that album! lol

cool http://www.musicstack.com...=153777234
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Reply #14 posted 07/02/09 6:48am

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SoulAlive said:


I need that album! lol

cool http://www.musicstack.com...=153777234


Thanks! wink

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Reply #15 posted 07/02/09 6:53am

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Have fun ! thumbs up! I think it's a fair sale price too.
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