"You’ve Got a Friend" - James Taylor

It turns out there are multiple commercial 45 pressings of James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend", so the database title notes can be amended as:

(Some commercial 45 copies run 4:26, while others have an actual run time of 4:27, not 4:29 as stated on the record label.)

(**Edit:** I somehow originally misread the printed time as 4:20. Therefore, given that there's only a two second difference between the actual and printed 45 time, no database title notes update is necessary here.)

"You've Got a Friend" comes from James Taylor's 1971 parent vinyl LP Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, in which the actual LP run time is 4:27 (printed time: 4:29).

What's interesting about this, however, is that the CD version of this album on Warner Bros. 2561 is currently shown in the database with a run time of 4:20, which is at least :06 shorter than all other CD appearances! All things considered, I highly suspect that this 4:20 time is a typo, unless something in the song was edited in some way for the CD release (which would be highly bizarre, to say the least). So if anyone has a copy of the Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon disc who can confirm the correct run time, it would be very much appreciated!

Edited by Todd Ireland

I only have a reissue 45 with a stated time of (4:29) so I
assume the comment of a running time of (4:20) was a typo.

Todd Ireland wrote: It turns out there are multiple commercial 45 pressings of James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend", so the database title notes can be amended as: (Some commercial 45 copies run 4:26, while others have an actual run time of 4:27, not 4:29 as stated on the record label.) "You've Got a Friend" comes from James Taylor's 1971 parent vinyl LP Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, in which the actual LP run time is 4:27 (printed time: 4:29). What's interesting about this, however, is that the CD version of this album on Warner Bros. 2561 is currently shown in the database with a run time of 4:20, which is at least :06 shorter than all other CD appearances! All things considered, I highly suspect that this 4:20 time is a typo, unless something in the song was edited in some way for the CD release (which would be highly bizarre, to say the least). So if anyone has a copy of the Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon disc who can confirm the correct run time, it would be very much appreciated!

Sorry, Aaron. You're absolutely right. I had the printed time incorrectly stated in my notes. I've gone back and corrected my original post. Thanks!

Edited by Todd Ireland