Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley

Has Terry Nelson's recording of this song shown up on any imports or promos? Its total absence from CD is flabbergasting.

Following up on this lost hit, "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by C Company
feat. Terry Nelson....

It appears that Sun Records has released a set of "albums" containing the
old Plantation Records recordings. The name of the set is "Plantation
Records-- the Singles Set." From what I can tell, however, the recordings
are only available digitally on outlets such as iTunes and Amazon.

Volume 3 of the set contains a version of "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" listed
at 3:48. I've listened to the preview on iTunes and it sounds like a match
for the 45 dub I have. I have no doubt this is the correct recording.

But-- there's always a but-- my original 45 of "Battle Hymn" has an actual
run time of only 3:29. I haven't purchased the track from iTunes (yet) but
the run times listed by iTunes in its store are generally pretty accurate
(unless for some reason, there is some dead air at the end of the track).
So, I assume that the iTunes track really does run close to 3:48, which
would be 19 seconds longer than the 45. So, with that said, does
anybody have any idea where the 3:48 version contained on "Plantation
Records-- the Singles Set, Part 3" comes from or how it differs from the
45? I can't imagine there was an "album version" of this track, was there?

In any event, the bigger news, I suppose, is that it looks like another lost
hit from the 1970s (following the acoustic version of "George Jackson" by
Dylan earlier this year) may have appeared on iTunes.


Edited by JL328

I may have posted this in another thread, but I found "Battle Hymn" on a German import CD several years ago, definitely from a tape source. It is the exact same recording, but it's in stereo and it runs longer. The choir finishes their chorus of "glory glory hallelujah," as I recall. The single is an early fade of the version I have on CD (though the single is mono).