George Baker Selection

Todd, yes it is stereo and very clean sounding. As for the 4:24 LP version, I think that's the LP version of "Little Green Bag," not "Paloma Blanca." Incidentally, my Disky version of "Bag" is the LP version faded early. It would be nice to find the rest of it in stereo, but only Collectables has it, and as Pat says, it's rechanneled.

Back to "Paloma," I've just finished timing my vinyl LP version of "Paloma" and it times out at 3:27, just like the 45. That's what led me to believe that the version on Disky, with the additional :20 intro was perhaps the original UK version that was edited for its US release.

Robert wrote: I just picked up a DISKY series, one of which is titled "Best of 1974-1975" and my first discovery in it is a 3:47 version of this song. The only differences are (1)it's got a :20 second longer intro than the 45 and my vinyl LP and (2) it's about 1.4% faster than the 45. Perhaps that is the USA LP/45 version, while the 3:47 version is the UK version. Don't know. Maybe someone can shed some light on that.    Since it is an import, it'll probably never appear in the DB, but the info should probably be changed to "45 & LP edit" or something.

I can finally shed a little light on this now. And I also have an understanding about what appears in the database:

PALOMA BLANCA (LP length is (3:28) not (3:49) as the record label states)

Well, there IS a reason why the label would wrongly state the length is 3:49 - I now have the original "Paloma Blanca" album on CD, imported from Holland where George Baker is from, and on this CD, Paloma Blanca is longer than anything on any US release - it's 3:49 - just like the US LP label (wrongly) states. That's probably why they had the time listed that way. As Robert says, it's a longer intro. It's over a minute! I actually really like this version - but then again, I really like the original. I'm not sure what the UK version would be, which Robert asks about above - but the Dutch/Holland version is certainly 3:49. Robert writes:

<the info should probably be changed to "45 & LP edit" or something>

Maybe "45 & US LP" would be a good indication for the database? I know we're not comparing things to overseas releases in the database, but with a notation like that, at least it might allow people to examine further and find out what the non-US LP lengths are. Just a suggestion.