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Slightly Different Version of Various Songs

hornet61 said:
I am sure there are alternate versions of all of the above and most of you have a keener ear than most and are catching some of that......Some station may have unknowingly gotten their hands on those K-tel 30 hits on one LP, WITH CLIPPED ORIGINAL VERSIONS.
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I remember one K-Tel or Ronco hits LP that had a 2:30-3 minute version of Eric Clapton's "Layla". ;D

A lot of younger DJ's or PD's have never heard what the original record sounded like, and wind up playing those Wal*Mart bargain bin oldies comps with the "re-recordings by the original artists". :-\
 
When A Man Loves A Woman, by Percy Sledge has a version with some nice horns. Ahhh, Sweetie Pie and I once danced forever to that particular version. <swoon>
 
The LP version of "Candida" by Tony Orlando and Dawn has additional brass on it; the stereo LP mix of Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" has a sort of gypsyish guitar riff that was mixed out of the 45 (maybe why all the 45's of that one are mono,) Three Dog Night's "Old Fashioned Love Song" appears on 45's both with and without a doo-wop vocal section in the middle; and for you real obsessives out there, the mono 45 rpm and stereo LP versions of David Seville's "Alvin's Harmonica" have completely different harmonica parts. (A-A-AL-VI-I-I-IN!!)
 
Don't forget Charlie Daniels' The Devil Went Down To Georgia. In one version he sang (speaking to the devil), "I told you once, you son of a bitch..."; in another version, he sang "son of a gun." Guess which version got played on the radio!
 
Eric Burdon & the Animals recorded two different versions of We Gotta Get Out Of This Place. And in 1965 while Simon & Garfunkel were on tour, Columbia record producer Tom Wilson took their 1964 acoustic ballad The Sounds Of Silence and added drums, electric bass and electric guitar to it. Columbia released it as a single and it went to number one. I like the acoustic version better.
 
billyg said:
I remember one K-Tel or Ronco hits LP that had a 2:30-3 minute version of Eric Clapton's "Layla". ;D
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The 1971 single version was about 3 minutes long - it left off Jim Gordon's piano solo. It was rereleased a year later with all 7+ minutes of the song intact.
 
I have a 45 of "Rama Lama Ding Dong" by the Edsels on the DUB label that sounds vastly different than the one normally heard. Also on "Standed in The Jungle" by the Cadets it seems like there are lions roaring on one version and another is identical except the lions can't be heard.
 
Billy Joel, "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" there was once a version out there that did NOT have the car squealing tires near the end of it, but I hardly ever hear that one anymore. Seems like that one (the one without the car squealing tires) was the one that was played back when it was a hit.
 
In 1959, Tommy Facenda recorded several regional versions of High School USA naming several local schools in each version. In 1966, KFWB, "Channel 98" in Los Angeles, edited Keith's 98.6 to say "Hey, 98, it's good to have you back again." In 1965, Pasadena top-40 station KRLA added some lines to the Trade Winds' New York's A Lonely Town: "From Central Park to Pasadena's such a long way [and there's no KRLA]...I feel so out of it walkin' down Broadway [Sure do miss KRLA]."
 
Treat Her Right (Roy Head) seems to have two versions. The vocals seem to be identical but the "horns" part toward the end seem to be played in two different keys.
 
I also remember the version of "Movin' Out" without the "peelout" sound effects.
There were two versions of Foreigner's "Cold as Ice": one with an orchestra, the other without.

I remember not only the K-tel edited-to-a-fare-thee-well compilations, but also the "soundalike" albums peddled on TV. In my 4th or 5th grade music class, the teacher played us one of these albums, I forget why (perhaps she had no lesson planned that day and was just winging it). It had "soundalike" versions of "Black & White" (with the cowbell at the beginning replaced by an electric guitar riff) and "Freddie's Dead" (a classmate cracked, "Curtis Mayfield got a sore throat!").

As for those "original artist" re-recordings, one station I worked at had several of these. Mainly from one of the biggest perpetrators, Highland Music and their "Hollywood" label (not to be confused with Disney-owned Hollywood Records). One supposedly featured the Chiffons' "He's So Fine," but it was only one vocalist, and the arrangement sounded like a country version of the song and nothing like the original.
 
28 versions of HS USA. I grew up in Central IL and am sure I heard a Central IL version, but nobody can help on this. 28 versions are listed in Osborne book.
 
A Thousand Stars - Kathy Young My Indigo 45 and version on FM or Satelllite radio are different as a bass guitar playing high notes is dubbed in to the FM and Satellite version. Maybe somebody can help with this. Wish I'd have asked her at show in Indiana. She's as friendly as God makes them.
 
Rolling Stones, "Time Is On My Side," Two versions, one fades in (I think) and fades out, the other has a definite intro and ending.

Beach Boys, "Surfin' Safari," one has a different second verse (I think) from the other.

From the '80s, "Promises, Promises" by Naked Eyes has a different second verse on the album version from the one on the single version. The album version also has a noticeably different mix.

The Beatles, "Let It Be" and "Get Back," noticeably different single versions (produced by George Martin) from the album versions (produced by Phil Spector).
 
Anybody remember Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids' "Did You Boogie With Your Baby?" with the running commentary by Wolfman Jack? I recently ran into a Private Stock Records various-artists demo LP in a plain white jacket with just a sticker of the label's logo on the cover (in-store play? salesman's sampler??) And there's "Did You Boogie"...MINUS ol' Wolfie! Hey, I liked the Wolfman too, but I enjoyed the song as much or more "straight up" without his contribution. I'm not sure which version appeared on the released LP; maybe one of you cool cats know.
 
firepoint525 said:
I asked that question earlier in this thread, and I am still trying to score the Memphis and Nashville versions.
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Firepoint525, Memphis DJ & businessman Alex Ward has the Memphis version of "High School USA". He's played it many times on his "Pig & Whistle Show". If you contact him I'm sure he'd record a copy for you.
 
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