Three More Questions

1. Saw the item in the CD Reviews section of Joe Cocker's "The Letter" finally available in its 45 version on CD on the Mad Dogs And Englishmen deluxe set. Is the 45 the version running (4:11) and billed as the "stereo single mix?"

2. Regarding the (2:49) mono version of "Dancing In The Moonlight," which is not the single version: how does the single version differ?

3. Any way to replicate the 45 version of Frijid Pink's "House Of The Rising Sun" (one 45 pressing shows it running (3:23), the LP version is (4:42))?

Thanks as usual.

The 45 version of "The Letter" is track 12, disc 2 of the recently released deluxe edition of "Mad Dogs & Englishmen". The description given on the cd packaging is "studio single version".

There is another slight difference in the Dancing in the Moonlight alternate version The cymbals fade up earlier on the intro on the alternate.

It's probably the same take, with more reverb, and the section which appears to be missing some vocals near the end may be a part that was actually edited out of the 45 and album versions. I haven't tried to make an edit but it sounds like if you edit that "different" section out of the song you get the the right part of the ending. Of course, the song then fades out too early.

I assume it was the best tape they can find so they use that one even though it's not correct.

I'm pretty sure, at least at one time they did, King Harvest has a MySpace page. I'm not on MySpace anymore, so can't verify.

I asked about the actual 45 version of "Dancing In The Moonlight" at one time over there and was told, IIRC, they didn't know if the proper version was on a master somewhere or not.