Three Dog Night - "One"

I thought for sure there would be an existing thread on
this but a search didn't turn up anything: There's an
active thread on the Steve Hoffman forum about the mono
45 version of Three Dog Night's "One" and a poster
indicates that he folded the version from the "Celebrate"
set to mono and that it matched his mono 45 with no
discernable mix differences.

I tried the same thing and got the same result: the only
differences I heard between my 45 and a fold-down of the
Celebrate version were the typical Dunhill eq and
compression (also the 45 fades early).

But the database listing for this song notes that "the
mono 45 has a totally different mix than the LP". I
don't completely trust my ears. What are the mix
differences that I (and the Hoffman contributor) are
missing?

I believe that the key difference between the mono single mix and the stereo LP mix is that during the middle of the song when the music gets mixed out, leaving just the accapella singing of "Celebrate Celebrate Dance to the Music", the drums come back in LATER on the mono 45 version.

Yeah I read it wrong.. sorry. As far as "One" is concerned I agree that the reverb is a major difference.

As the LP version is 3:02 and the single version is 2:47 but in mono and with extra reverb, if I were to take the 3:02 version and fade it to 2:47, would that approximate the single version - or is there also edits that make the single the shorter length of 2:47?

Here's the link:

Edited by Steve Carras