INDEX



....the complete listing
Deeper & Deeper
Bad Girl
Rain
Take A Bow
Human Nature
You'll See
DCFMA
Frozen (single)
Frozen (maxi)
Ray Of Light (single)
Ray Of Light (maxi)
POG (single>
POG (maxi)
NRM (single)
NRM (maxi)
BS
American Pie
Music
Music (4 mix maxi)
Music (9 mix maxi)

Collectors Guide To CD Singles
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GUIDE TO CANADIAN CD SINGLES

I have always loved Canadian pressings, but these were mainly those totally cool cassette singles that came with picture sleeve in plastic casing and commenced way back in '84/'85. Luckily, I have just discovered a totally cool Canadian collector called Rob who has helped me commence a Canadian CD single guide. Cheers Rob!


INTERESTING DISC DESIGN
Canadian CD singles are very interesting as they do appear to come with a disc design similar to CD singles released in USA on promotional format. They seem to come with either plain silver label like "Bad Girl" or "Express Yourself" on USA promotional CD.
Others have a large Maverick gold logo accross a silver disc like the USA promotional "Nothing Really Matters" 9trk or "Power Of Good-bye". The only other country to release non promotional CD singles with this type of promotional disc design is South Africa, where "Power Of Good-bye" came with large gold Maverick logo!

All CD singles have a different catalogue number system to USA so are easily distinguishable, although their printed Canadian origins are also an easy give-a-way! BIGGER RAIN

Most world/USA releases were released in Canada which makes their existance a huge addition to any collection! These usually followed the USA sleeve design and track listings. You'll See | Human Nature | Human Nature back | DCFMA | DCFMA back | ROL front | ROL back | | ROL maxi front | ROL Maxi back YMLM front



Frozen front | Frozen back | Frozen maxi front | Frozen maxi back | ROL front | ROL back | ROL maxi front | ROL maxi back | POG front | POG back | POG maxi front | POG maxi back | NRM front | NRM back | NRM maxi front | NRM maxi back |





Here is some great information on the more recent CD singles from Canadian Collector David Morsillo, Madonna's No. 1 Canadian Fan!!!!!:

Some things I noticed recently were regarding the American Pie maxi-single, sadly no 2 track was issued to compliment the maxi, but the maxi has unique disc colour (note Canadian spelling!) which is a bit darker (and nicer) than the UK and Europe issues. Also note the interesting white jewel case. The Power of Goodbye maxi-single also was issued this way. The rest are black.

The Power of Goodbye maxi-single has slightly different cover design to the 2 track issue. Firstly the covers are slightly different in colours, it's a bit hard to see if you don't personally own them (like me!) but one is greyish (2 track) and the other is darker and less pale in colour (maxi). Also note the title of the song, on the single it's at the top while on the maxi it's in the middle! Also note that both formats are the only ones released in the world that came in album style jewel cases.

Beautiful Stranger like AP was sadly issued as a maxi-single only. The disc design is like the Malaysian single except what sets it apart and makes it unique is that there is no writing on the CD making it nicer to look at, no title, artist just credits on the outer part of the CD.





The Frozen singles are slightly different than each other in that the 2 track is darker overall than the maxi-single. The disc designs are identical but are simply beautiful with little ROL }{ type of logos all over the CD! Also the inside sleeve have two different pictures of Mo, the 2 track having same picture as the back of the CD but the maxi having a unique take on a picture from the album booklet where she is in the background holding her hand out with eyes closed and mouth slightly opened, except in the CD maxi, its gold tinted!

The ROL single is more unique in terms of disc design. The CD single having a nice royal blue starburst sun type design, while the maxi has the same except the colour is a metallic colour version of the background of the front cover. The inserts are also unique with the maxi having the untouched photo from the front cover and the CD single having the exact same picture on the back even with track listing and production and writing credits.
Cheers David Morsillo for above information on ROL album CD singles.



MORE COLLECTABLE CANADIAN CD SINGLES
The first CD single to be released in Canada was "Take A Bow" which was not only released in jewel casing (Canada's only jewel cased CD single) but it also had a black-toned cover, different to the European/UK brown toned design. This pressing also had a totally cool disc desgn, totally rare now!

The "Ray Of Light" produced an interesting limited edition digi-pak; this was believed to be the same as the USA version, but it was actually partly made in Canada. The limited edition digi-pak casing was manufactured in USA (has '9-46847 catalogue number) BUT the disc was pure Canadian and even includes special CDW46847 catalogue number.

The USA limited edition "Spy Who Shagged Me" which came in velvet casing was also released in Canada, with CDW47432 disc catalogue number (casing had '9-46847 catalogue number).