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

["BlackMonk" <BlackMonk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


>
> << 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.
>

But it and the LP version of "Be True To Your School" were used on Endless 
Summer. 

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