"This was taken from the remastered Xanadu soundtrack released in 1998 and edited on a Roland VS-880 digital studio workstation to remove the "rock band" portions of the song (as supplied by The Tubes) so I could include this song on a compilation of Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Louis Prima, and Brian Setzer Orchestra songs that I was making for myself to listen to in the car and at work. 

The problem I ran into was that the rock band was included in the final three-note orchestra hit that concludes the song and it would've sounded weird to have no rock band until the last three notes of the song. 

I even tried to use my Roland GR-33 guitar synth's "Orchestra Hit" sound, my bass guitar, and my Roland R-70 drum machine's cymbal crash to try to recreate the ending with the exact notes used in the original, but it sounded like complete garbage.  By this time, it was 2003, and I gave up on attempting to pull this off for a few years. 

Then in late May 2005, the epiphany came to me to check my four Frank Sinatra CDs, 1 Bobby Darin CD, 1 Dean Martin CD, and 1 Louis Prima double CD for up-tempo big band song endings that could possibly replace the ending of the song. 

After initially beginning with Frank Sinatra endings and finding six potential candidates while driving to and from work, I found the closest possible match with Dean Martin's "On The Street Where You Live", from his Swingin' With Dino compilation from Capitol Records in 2002. 

From there, I realized that it was still not an exact ending, so I tried all of the horn sounds on my guitar synth, but none of them sounded true enough to work with the Dean Martin ending.  In the end, I just went with the Dean Martin ending. 

I have finally mixed this down to a CD so I can use it in my personal swingin' big band compilation, and have made an MP3 of it to share with the rest of the world.  Xanadu isn't the greatest movie of all time, but please buy the Xanadu soundtrack if you don't already own it.  It's awesome!  Especially the Electric Light Orchestra second half." 

Matt Albright
Wisconsin, USA
June 7, 2005