Move some loop data outside the loop…possible ?

Hi,

in my homepage i have 2 loop, the first one retrives a random post and the secon retrive 5 random post from an other category. I want to move some informations from inside the first loop to outside and be able to reuse that in sidebar but i can’t….

Inside the loop i placed this line:

<php $title = ‘Title: ‘.the_title(); ?>

And outside:

<?php echo $title; ?>

The result is that:
inside the loop at runtime i get the output of “the_title()” function and in the other place where i placed the “echo $title” statement i get only “Title:”

What is the way for do that ?

Thanks