A couple of MJ "remixes" (61/365)

I’m still in the process of working on the long entry, however, I have no idea when it will be completed as my inspiration is slipping away, so I’m just going to throw myself back into making more interesting entries again.

I watched the “Michael Jackson talks to Oprah” interview when I was just a kid when it originally aired in 1993. Actually, I taped it and still have the video to this day. I rewatched it so many times over the years, I’m surprised it still plays! Honestly, I hardly need the tape anymore, as everything gets shared on the internet, anyway. It’s funny how something that was so precious all of these years to me all of these years (the interview) is so readily available on YouTube. I have moved over a dozen times since I recorded that interview and have always been so concerned that something would happen to my tape. I feel like a really old fart for saying this, but between YouTube, file sharing, and TiVo, kids these days have no idea what it’s like to only be able to watch something once and then never have it again. EVER.

ANYWAY, I just veered waaa-aaay off course.

Between commercials during the Oprah interview, they played a couple remixes of Michael’s songs with his videos edited into them… like people do on YouTube these days. I adored the remixes, but because the internet was just a baby and nobody file shared, I had no way of finding the songs. For years I wondered if they just made the remixes specifically for the interview.

Here’s the two video clips with the remixes from the interview that I’m talking about.

The first is a remix of “Bad” with “Thriller” and “Blame it on the Boogie” sampled. The second is a remix of “Black or White”:

Well, after reading an entry in Sasha Sark’s blog in which she mentioned how she had an LP of Black or White remixes, I decided to look into it and found the Oprah version online which is “Black Or White- House With Guitar Radio Mix”.

Here’s the full song with a video mix that someone made with it on YouTube:

I was still stumped about the Bad “remix”. I kept searching with the term “Bad REMIX” online and coming up empty until I realized that I heard it on the radio years ago once and it wasn’t really a remix, it was just an extended version of the song. I felt (and still feel) so idiotic! I’m sure all MJ fans know about this except me! UGH! I wish “Blame it on the Boogie” was actually sampled in it, though, but I suppose they just added it for the interview.

Here’s the extended version:

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