Cowsills - "Hair"

I recently dug up my old 45 of "Hair" and slapped it on the turntable to give a listen... now granted, it is in pretty bad shape, but even after a dozen or so listenings, i had trouble discerning any difference between the mono 45 version and the stereo album version... can anyone help me out on this??? also, is the 45 version on any cd???
thanks

thank you, jim, and now that i have hauled the many boxes of 45's i have acquired over the years, there will be many more questions to come!

The 45 is missing the wind overdubs (i think they start on the word "trees") and the ending is different, as well as the mix being very different (also sounds like some of the vocals on the stereo mix had different effects done to them than the mono versions).

I just listened to Jim's dub, and there's no doubt a difference with some of the reverb on both the vocals and instrumentation, although very slight. Also, there's definitely wind sound effects, as David and Tom have pointed out, on the stereo LP version.

at what point in the song are these wind trees?

edtop40 wrote: at what point in the song are these wind trees?

Ed, as David mentioned upthread, the wind sound effects on the stereo mix are in the second verse:

I let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees
Give a home for the fleas in my hair

The wind blows in after the word "breeze" at about the 1:34 mark, builds into a full gale, then finally dies down at 1:41.

The first time I ever heard the stereo mix of "Hair" was in the '70s, on one of WMID/Atlantic City's Post Records compilation LPs. My first impression: "what's with the howling wind?" Having only ever heard the mono 45, it sounded completely ridiculous to me, but must have made a lasting impression, nonetheless: When Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" single was current in 1979, I could never resist the temptation to bury the line "there's a high wind in the trees, a cold sound in the air" under hurricane-like wind sound effects. My very belated apologies to any listeners who might have been disappointed that Hurricane Art was not on their 45s. ;)

bwolfe: The stereo and mono intros are the same length.

Edited by Yah Shure

Archives Guy, thanks for the information. I will be getting
this newer version of the release in a few days.

One of my top 5 mono wants! Thanks for posting the news.

There are only two versions of this Eric Records CD release (volume 17). The remastered version with the mono version of "Hair" is the version now being sold on that site. "Hair" is track 5.
"I Live For The Sun" appears on both the original CD release as well as the current remastered version. The song dropped from the remastered version was "The Pied Piper" as pointed out above.

Of all that I purchased, this was the only one. Sorry!