Recently rejected by both Youtube and Dailymotion here is the rare "single version" of one of my all time favourite and under rated tracks... "While You See a Chance"!
*note - please excuse the picture quality but Blogsite compression standards are much lower than the aforementioned regular "video specific" sites. :-)
"While You See a Chance" is a song performed by Steve Winwood in 1980, who also wrote it alongside Will Jennings. It was released on his album Arc of a Diver and peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1981, and also reached #68 on the Billboard Top 100 for the year 1981; however, it only reached #45 in the UK.
The song's keyboard introduction was not originally intended to be part of the song. The track was thrown together fairly quickly after Winwood discovered that he had accidentally deleted his intended drum track introduction while preparing for vocals. He wrote a new introduction on the spot as a replacement.
Many radio stations, when the song was released, played the version of the single used in the video, which cut the song's length from 5:15 to 3:55. The edit occurs in the middle of the song, immediately following the lyric "Don't you wonder how you keep on moving? One more day, your way." In the full version, Winwood follows this line by repeating the words "Oh, your way," while in the short version, an instrumental passage follows immediately.
In D-TV, the song was set to the Disney classic The Sword in the Stone.
FYI the original, shorter and "poor sounding" version is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6g_uUhH2c
We also highly recommend checking out these channels for more quality and classic music clips…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Es0VFUMvgpLWSDGiE5XJw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUao-EF-RGSKlshOK2hXvmw
In the meantime we hope you have enjoyed this post, all the best from the VCRS team :-)
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