Madonna – Keep It Together

If you have one of these 45s, I am a buyer with money in hand. Thank you.

Great underrated song by Madonna from the "Like a Prayer" album. A3 Keep It Together (12" Extended Mix) is the one for me here..Shep kept the original tracks and simply did a tasteful extended remix. Moffet's drumming on this is so funky.

The Soul II Soul-ish drum machine reworkings never did it for me though....(I love drum machines, btw)

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The sound quality is great, as I've come to expect from every Madonna Maxi-Single so far. Sadly, the content for me it's just... Meh? I mean, the Like a Prayer era has a lot of great mixes, especially the title track (every single remix is amazing) but here I just feel like I'm Listening to the same remix over and over again. If you wanna listen to this EP, just listen the 12" mix and the 12" extended remix and you've basically listened to all the other remixes. Plus it samples random parts from previous Madonna songs such as True Blue and Into the Groove which to me it's just a little bit random and I certainly don't like it. I bought this maxi single two years ago and I've listened to it today for the first time since I knew I wasn't going to like the remixes based on the B-side of Vogue, which comes with a remix of it.

If I had to say one cool feature of this Maxi is that the Instrumental is kind of cool(? It does a similar thing to the La Isla Bonita instrumental which remixes the 12" mix instead of just being a plain white instrumental of the original song

Why did they leave out 2 versions from the official U.S. 12" Maxi-Single? The people in charge of these DIGITAL SINGLES are horrible.

One of my favorite Madonna songs. The "Keep It Together (Instrumental)" on the B-Side is worth the purchase alone. The horns on that sucker, wow!

See https://madonnarecords.com/data/record.asp?id=13373 for Canadian release as evidence of its existence.

Also note, WEA Music Of Canada adopted a no-returns policy on 45 rpm singles as of January 2, 1990. Most singles issued from this point forward were only released in Canada on the cassette single (CS) format. Some singles were released in Canada on the 7" format, primarily top 15 hits by popular artists.

One of Madonna's rarest cassettes and definitely a hard cassette to find. A real gem for collectors!!!

a SHAME that the 12" "Extended Mix" never got a full side on any pressing. It's the only proper remix of the LP version. The other mixes replaced Jonathan's awesome go-go drum track with a drum machine.

As far as I know this the only place I've found the '7" Remix' where Madonna says 'Hit it' at the start instead of the original male voice. I heard this on US radio years ago and never found until I sourced this promo. Love it.

The original backing insert was included with very few copies of the "Keep It Together" U.S. promo CD. It has the Warner Bros. logo and a promo copyright infringement warning.