[bomp] Re: The Monos and the Papas -- quiz

[Sknoof@xxxxxxx]

<< and I remember it seemed hit and miss
which  oldies singles were still using the original single mixes and which
had
replaced  them with the stereo mix. The Beatles' singles were still using the

originals up  through the 1980s, and I remember "Sounds Of Silence" was the
original as  well...but The Monkees' singles were in stereo, as were most
Motown
45s. But I  remember thinking it cool that even this long after the fact,
many of those old  mixes could still be had. >>

This brings some geeky trivia to mind.  I can think of two artists (one US,
one UK) who had good-sized American hits in the mid-60s and who have been the
victims of "alternate version flip-flop."  In other words, with each
successive
re-issue you might get this take or you might get that one.  Therefore it was
also always a crap-shoot as to which version you'd hear when it came on the
radio.

One of these artists had *two* songs that fell into these category.

Of course there's no wrong answer here, y'all might know of several others
other than the two I'm thinking of.  But here's what I'm NOT thinking of:

-- "Time Is On My Side."  The elongated, slightly draggy LP mix with the
guitar intro was never released as a single (at least not here) and therefore
if
it ever got played on oldies radio it was an accident.

-- "Help Me Rhonda," ditto.

-- "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life," from the LP, without the horn section,
ditto.  And that was in the 70s anyway.

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