Playmates - Beep Beep

For the recent "Hard To Find Jukebox Classics 1958: Pop Gold" CD, Pat states it is the 45 version (in stereo). It runs 2:31. The Pop Annual book indicates a run time of 2:29. I know it's not too much of a difference, but when it's a speed difference (vs. a fade) I tend to notice such things. Does anyone have a 45 they actally time for us? Perhaps there was more than one pressing of this 45?

My own attempt at a stereo 45 version ran 2:28. The 45 does run 2:31, but it has speed variations throughout the song, thus making it difficult to recreate a proper version in stereo.....the Hard To Find Jukebox Classics cd does replicate the 45 version in stereo faithfully with speed variations fixed to match the 45 and it is the correct time for the 45 version.

For what it's worth, count me in as another forum member who comes up with an actual commercial 45 run time of 2:31, not 2:20 as stated on the record label for The Playmates' "Beep Beep". The database currently shows the actual 45 run time of 2:29. So, either this timing is slightly off or it's indicative of two pressings with differing run time lengths.

The LP version (3:06) has an instrumental intro, followed by the chorus, and then goes into the first verse. Perhaps the reissue 45 used the LP version.

Just for the record, the Pop Annual book now lists the time as (2:31).