Could it be magic

[disco1999]

Does anyone have the info about the 12inch version of Donna's Could it be magic (around 6:25, not the 5:15 album version please). I need to know what else is on this record, label, it's number, and exact time.

TY and have a merry christmas to all of you!!

[PierreConstantin]

It's the lp version with the intro «Prelude to love» inspired by Chopin's Prelude in C minor. «Prelude to love» is actually the real intro of Donna Summer's «Could it be magic» (even if some 7" were released without it, the song beginning kind of abruptly with Summer singing the song).

[disco1999]

Merci Pierre

[PierreConstantin]

You are welcome.
I have a French 7" (Wea/Atlantic 10770) with «Could it be magic» [5:15], the lp version with just a 10 second intro before she sings and something is really missing in the song. The 3:15 edit of this song has the same problem. I have it on some compilations (the German «Star Gold» 2-lp set or the British GTO «Greatest hits» both from 1977) but I assume it was available on 7" pressings at the time. The re-edited short mix available on some compilations of the 90's («The Donna Summer anthology» and «Endless Summer») is a compromise: it begins with 30 seconds of «Prelude to love» and then the real «Could it be magic» starts (the intro is actually 38 sec. long before Summer sings).