Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You '86-'87 Remixes

[deepdjdanny]

Wanting to know if anyone can post some info in this thread regarding releases of 'Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You REMIXES' like Supreme 1986 Remix, Idem Cupid Remix 12 Minutes, '87 Dance & Dub mixes; who they were done by... Dave Ford before PWL?, Pete Waterman/Phil Harding? Track details, full names, track time/length, chart positon, Labels they were released on, sleeve .jpg's etc.
I have a 4 track CD single only, it was released in 1988 I believe, with 2 versions, a radio & 12".
(The 12" version is definitely EUROBEAT circa late '80's style as per Stock, Aitken & Waterman, particularly: Mel&Kim.)

This is my pending Discogs.com database entry:

Billy Ocean - CD Single Classic / Billy Ocean / Love Really Hurts Without You / Red Light

Label: BR Music
Catalog#: CDS 6038 CDM01
Format: CD5"
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1988
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Notes: Cardboard sleeve. No credits. Licensed from Black Sheep Prod.

I believe, but cannot confirm that either of the versions of "Love Really Hurts Without You" that appear on this release are not Stock, Aitken & Waterman/Pete Hammond (re)mixes.
The second version; 12", definitely has the eurobeat programming/sequencing style & arrangement structure of the remix format so popular in the late 1980's. Billy Ocean's vocals & harmonies retaining the Motown element within the crunchy, brisk shuffling groove. When played out clubwise, the track needed at least a +2% pitch increase to counter the flatness of tuning and to 'give it back the energy of bounce'.
The appearance of any 12" version/remix of this song title on CD media was rare;
JIVE's Australian subsidary(: Festival / Liberation(?),) did not appear to release a CD single at the time.


Tracklisting:
1 Love Really Hurts Without You [bpm:133.05] (3:22)
2 Love Really Hurts Without You (12") [bpm:130.08] (6:52)
3 Red Light [bpm:083.15] (3:39)
4 Red Light (12") [bpm:083.13] (5:53)

Help! Help! Help! anyone... deepdjdanny :)

[usagi-san]

This was one of the first songs that ever got me into disco. But I am sorry I can't help you with any alternate versions; I never found any.