The 1987 version.

This is the 1988 version. After the song did well in Australia, the record company PWL re-recorded it for a 1988 release. This included both altering the original 1987 video, and removing things to make the cover more straight-forward. It sounds like an update of the 1962 Little Eva version, whereas the 1987 version took more creative license with it. I’m assuming that’s also why they changed the title from Locomotion back to The Loco-Motion.

I’d like to add that according to Wikipedia, the 1987 video was filmed at Essendon Airport and the ABC studios in Melbourne, Australia. Wikipedia goes on to say that this version of the video was created from the original 1987 version. I’m still leaving Chris Langham as the director, but it does seem to imply that there was someone else who came in to re-edit the video.

Enjoy!

It can’t ever be simple, can it?

There’s either different versions, different edits, and sometimes censored and uncensored versions of a video. Err….

Anyhow, there are two different versions of the video for Minogue’s cover of The Loco-Motion. This is the video that was done for the original 1987 release. The differences between the two videos are enough that I want to post them separately.

The song is different. It’s more danceable in this version, than in the 1988 version. It also goes by Locomotion instead of The Loco-Motion.

If you play the two videos side-by-side, then you’ll notice they go out of sync almost immediately. They seem to be composed of mostly the same footage, but edited together differently, with a few parts I didn’t see in both.

A small example is when Kylie knocks the widescreen back to fullscreen. In this version it only happens once. In the other version it happens twice, back-to-back.

Thank you, Kylie Minogue and anyone else who helped to make the following video on her official YouTube page:

Without that retrospective, I wasn’t positive this version was officially made. There’s plenty of videos out there that have had the sound replaced and/or the video altered. Thanks to that video, I know that this is official.

I wasn’t sure about the director. Chris Langham is credited with doing seven of her videos. They are all from 1988-1989. He could have simply re-edited that earlier version. I don’t think he did though because Wikipedia lists him as having directed the 1987 version of the video for I Should Be So Lucky. That’s good enough for me.

The video itself is a mix of Minogue in music-video, behind-the-scenes, and studio-recording mode.

Enjoy!