Singles that were longer than the album version

[Michael Hagerty]

Thanks to @Harry for putting this one into my head by posting the mono 45 version of Sergio's "Pretty World".

While those of us of a certain age grew up with "the album version" and "the single edit", where the album version was always the more complete version, there were exceptions.

"Pretty World" is one, fading to inaudible at 3:11 on the LP, while the single gives us about eight and a half seconds more.

The other one I can think of off the top of my head is from a few months before---the fall of 1968.

The Monkees released "The Porpoise Song" on 45 weeks ahead of the HEAD soundtrack album:



It's a full four minutes, with a 28-second prelude and a nearly minute-long instrumental at the end...that are both missing from the album version:



Why?

No idea.

 

[Rudy]

I am more used to the 12-inch single era, where the versions on the singles were at least extended in some ways, if not remixed. Occasionally they were the album versions, which was not something I would normally purchase unless I only wanted the one song.

I have so few 45s that I doubt there are many I'd have with extended endings or longer alternate versions. I think Herb's "To Wait for Love" had a longer fade-out at the end, and I did end up with a newer copy of the single of "Pretty World" that I rarely ever played. (I may have had one as a kid, but I don't remember that far back what it sounded like.)

 

[Harry]

The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" has its stereo album mix fading at about 3:47-48ish. The mono single and mono album version is extended by about nine or ten seconds.

 

[Harry]

There's a tiny extension on the mono mix of "Goodbye To Love" by Carpenters. As the record is almost faded, you can hear a quick wild organ run that is not heard in any other version.

 

[AM Matt]

The Beatles "Hey Jude" the very 1st mono 45 single on Apple Records at the 7:02 mark has Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) changing his drumming!!

 

[Michael Hagerty]

The Beatles "Hey Jude" the very 1st mono 45 single on Apple Records at the 7:02 mark has Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) changing his drumming!!

I had the single---had totally forgotten that! Thanks, Matt!

 

[Harry]

That mono single version of "Hey Jude" can be found on the Mono Masters CD contained in the BEATLES IN MONO box set.

 

[Mr Bill]

One of the single versions of Henry Badowski's "Making Love With My Wife" (on I.R.S. in the US, Deptford Fun City in the UK) is about 30 seconds longer than the LP or stock single version, with an exquisite string quartet solo at the beginning. The longer version is also featured on the UK compilation Machines from which this YouTu.be video is culled:



--Mr. Bill

 

[TonyCurrie]

Thanks to @Harry for putting this one into my head by posting the mono 45 version of Sergio's "Pretty World".

While those of us of a certain age grew up with "the album version" and "the single edit", where the album version was always the more complete version, there were exceptions.

"Pretty World" is one, fading to inaudible at 3:11 on the LP, while the single gives us about eight and a half seconds more.

The other one I can think of off the top of my head is from a few months before---the fall of 1968.

The Monkees released "The Porpoise Song" on 45 weeks ahead of the HEAD soundtrack album:



It's a full four minutes, with a 28-second prelude and a nearly minute-long instrumental at the end...that are both missing from the album version:



Why?

No idea.

Interestingly, I found the single version on Amazon Music in stereo. Thanks for alerting me to it!

 

[Michael Hagerty]

Interestingly, I found the single version on Amazon Music in stereo. Thanks for alerting me to it!

You're welcome. It was out of circulation (unless you could find the 45) until 2001 and the "Music Box" four-CD set.

 

[AM Matt]

The Monkees song "Valleri" (later on the 1968 album "The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees") was cut short while the mono single is completed (10 seconds more).