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Post by af18c on Jan 17, 2004 21:39:51 GMT -5
If im not mistake only a live version was recorded from MTV Unplugged. Am i right? I have the MTV Unplugged LP....anyways, on of my favorites by Mariah. Great song.
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Post by BillboardBoy on Jan 17, 2004 22:38:57 GMT -5
Not Mariah's greatest song, but I was still happy to see it go to #1. She was having a good streak of chart-toppers and I was happy it was continuing.
It made an impressive 24-notch leap on the weekend of May 30, 1992 (CT40). :o
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Post by mst3k on Jan 18, 2004 0:12:50 GMT -5
Great song...
My favorite part is when somebody in the audience starts clapping really loudly to the beat near the beginning... then after a few lines you hear one more loud clap offbeat, and nothing more. Almost as if a stagehand went down and told the clapper to shut up. Makes me laugh every time I hear it!
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Post by jond7699 on Jan 18, 2004 14:09:06 GMT -5
Awesome song Mariah barely ever disappoints , me atleast  . I could care less for Trey Lorenz though. |
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Post by reception on Jan 18, 2004 15:42:00 GMT -5
I don't like it.
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Post by strong4PMB! on Jan 18, 2004 23:07:19 GMT -5
Amazing live performance.
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Post by reception on Jan 31, 2005 4:47:23 GMT -5
It spent eight weeks at #1 on Shadoe Stevens' AT40. On the 9/6/1992 edition of AT40 it was the biggest dropper of the week moving 19-26.
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Post by JCMF3 on Jan 31, 2005 12:25:30 GMT -5
I love this song.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 31, 2005 13:54:05 GMT -5
It spent eight weeks at #1 on Shadoe Stevens' AT40. On the 9/6/1992 edition of AT40 it was the biggest dropper of the week moving 19-26. Not to mention it set a (short-lived) record for highest debut ever at #4. Madonna broke that record only a few months later. |
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Post by bluenote on Jan 31, 2005 16:02:18 GMT -5
she sounded good on it.
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 5, 2005 3:38:23 GMT -5
Although the song wasn't that great, I was happy to see Mariah have another #1 hit in both Billboard and R&R. At the time, only one other woman had topped the Hot 100 under the new methodology (Vanessa Williams).
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Feb 6, 2005 21:22:51 GMT -5
Hot Jackson 5 rem--- oh wait...
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Post by complex_simplicity21385 on Apr 26, 2005 20:13:27 GMT -5
Amazing live performance. |
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Post by A Thug Named Slickback on Apr 26, 2005 21:57:14 GMT -5
Mariah sang that song at VH1 Save The Music a couple weeks ago. Even better than the original. She's still got it (13 years later)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2005 23:24:08 GMT -5
In the first couple of years of her career, Mariah's voice was looked at as freakish by critics. Many believed that what they were hearing on record was completely impossible. Mariah Carey was nothing more than a studio singer. In a post-Milli Vanilli world, they had every right to believe so. Columbia saw MTV's Unplugged program as the perfect way for Mariah to put an end to the doubt. She would be supported by nothing more than an acoustic band and a few backing singers. It was around this time that Mariah would meet long-time backing singer Kelly Price who would later go on to sing hooks for Bad Boy rappers and score herself a #1 R&B hit as a solo artist. She also met Trey Lorenz. During rehearsals, she heard somebody nearly matching her note for note and turned around to find out it was a man.
MTV asked Mariah to pick a song to cover for her setlist. Being Mariah's first cover, she saw it as the perfect opportunity to take a song that was already a classic and revive it for a brand new generation. Her cover of the Jackson 5's #1 hit was performed as the show's closer with Trey Lorenz. After the cameras stopped rolling however, she performed an unrehearsed version of her hit "Can't Let Go".
Mariah's cover of the Jackson 5 classic was met with warm response and so Columbia released it commercially as a single from her MTV Unplugged album. The song became Mariah's sixth Hot 100 #1 in the spring of 1992, also topping the airplay charts for two months straight-- a feat uncommon for live releases.
Mariah set out to take a classic and make it her own, and did she ever. Mariah's cover now obliterates the Jackson 5 original, many weeks getting over ten times the amount of spins.
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Post by The Black Bird on Nov 13, 2005 10:51:29 GMT -5
I almost feel like her version is more famous than Jackson's five version....
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Post by Caviar on Nov 13, 2005 11:26:54 GMT -5
Better than IMO.
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Post by ga68153 on Aug 8, 2009 9:06:01 GMT -5
Any fans of this song? I loved it, when it came out. Anyone know its peak on CHR/Pop???
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Post by Dammn Baby on Aug 8, 2009 9:55:12 GMT -5
#1 for 6 weeks at CHR/Pop during June and July of 1992. Its run was:
40 16 8 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 21 26 37
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2011 19:13:32 GMT -5
I like it, moreso than the original tbh.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2015 9:21:34 GMT -5
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Post by Live Your Life on Aug 27, 2015 11:55:07 GMT -5
Fantastic cover.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Oct 18, 2015 20:57:14 GMT -5
"I'll Be There" was already such an amazing song, the fact that she took it and made it better is a testament to her talent. If you took the audience sounds out of this, you would think it was a studio recording. Flawless live performance from her and Trey.
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Post by JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME on Oct 19, 2015 2:28:43 GMT -5
This was one of the first songs I had ever heard from her and I immediately fell in love with her voice. I have been a fan ever since.
The original song is good, but Mariah and Trey took it to the next level and made it their own. Theirs is the definitive version of this song.
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Post by Soulsista on Dec 21, 2015 12:31:53 GMT -5
They did a good job covering this.
This was Mariah's first song to miss the Top 10 on the R&B chart, spending 3 weeks at #11.
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Post by 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 on Feb 7, 2019 12:39:00 GMT -5
She absolutely NAILED this classic. A job well done! 👏👏👏👏👏
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Post by jenglisbe on Oct 14, 2019 9:17:59 GMT -5
Sony needs to certify this Gold. In April 2008 "IBT" had a physical Soundscan total of 478,309 (limited single upon release) and a downloads total of 67,094. That's a total of 545,403 copies and thus well past Gold.
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Post by Unhinged on Oct 16, 2019 12:23:37 GMT -5
Doesn't top the iconic original but it's great.
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Post by Dreams on Oct 27, 2019 6:58:48 GMT -5
I incidentally heard the original the other day. I MUCH prefer Mariah & Trey's cover. 🤷♂️
Love this song, I'd put IBT in her top 5 best covers. This is really good:
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Post by jenglisbe on Oct 28, 2019 15:21:23 GMT -5
If im not mistake only a live version was recorded from MTV Unplugged. Am i right? I have the MTV Unplugged LP....anyways, on of my favorites by Mariah. Great song. There's also this version, which I suppose is the closest to a 'studio version' as exists: |
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