14 years later, it became a number one R&B hit again, with Chaka Khan and Ray Charles doing the vocals on Quincy Jones' Back On the Block album (the record also went to #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, and topped the American dance chart in early 1990). This was Ray Charles' first #1 R&B hit in twenty-four years.
Single (A), (B): Qwest 22697, 1989-10.
Even the video seems to have been released in two versions...
- 12" Remix (8:06)
- 12" Remix Dub
- Good For Your Soul Mix (8:18): additional production and remix by Arthur Baker for ABI. Rap written and performed by Skam. Programming by Mac Quayle. Mix engineer: Mark Plati at Shakedown Sound. Edits By Charlie Barbie and Vic.
- Good For Your Soul Dub (4:45)
- Around The House Mix: details as Soul mix, plus: edits by Oh Oh Omar Santana.
- Around The House Dub
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Around The House Mix (6:54):
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The 33 1/3 vinyl version reproduced in the soundclip below specifies 3 of the mixes in yet another order:
- 12" Remix 8:06
- Good For Your Soul Mix 8:18
- Good For Your Soul Dub 4:45
Soundclip of a 4:54 version (possibly one of the mixes mentioned above):
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A few seconds of making of-footage in the BBC documentary The Many Lives Of Q, from 2008: start watching here.
Personnel:
Listen Up (1990) had some marvelous making of-footage:
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