Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On

The version that I have was included on a Dick Bartley "New Gold On CD" program that our radio station aired the week of July 22, 1996. It is a stereo version that was included as a Bonus Track. I don't know where Mr. Bartley got this stereo version, but it runs 2:41. It could have been the rerecorded version. If it was, I know it dates at least from July, 1996.

Probably both are the re-recorded version:

Dot DLP-25979 - Where Were You When? -
Various Artists [1970] Come Go With Me -
Dell- Vikings (E)/Young Love - Tab Hunter
(E)/Wonderful Summer - Robin Ward (S)/The
Green Door - Jim Lowe (E)/Ivory Tower -
Gale Storm (E)/Letter From Sherry - Dale
Ward (E)/Hearts Of Stone - Fontane Sisters
(E)/You Better Move On - Arthur Alexander
(S)//You Cheated - Shields (E)/All Nite
Long - Rusty Bryant (E)/P.S. I Love You -
Hilltoppers (E)/The Fool - Sanford Clark
(E)/Pink Shoelaces - Dodie Stevens (E, Dot
rerecording)/Susie Darlin' - Robin Luke
(E)/Rebel - Carol Jarvis (E)/Confidential
- Sonny Knight (E)

Time Life SRNR-16/2RNR-16 (Warner Special
Products OP-2545/OPCD-2545) - The Rock 'N'
Roll Era: Still Rockin' 1962 - Various
Artists [LP=1987, CD=1988] Do You Love Me
- Contours (M)/Having A Party - Sam Cooke
(E)/I'm Blue - Ikettes (M)/You've Really
Got A Hold On Me - Miracles (E)/Keep Your
Hands Off My Baby - Little Eva (M)/Two
Lovers - Mary Wells (S)/(The Man Who Shot)
Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney (S)/Any Day
Now - Chuck Jackson (S)/Let's Dance -
Chris Montez (M, with countoff)/A
Wonderful Dream - Majors (M)/You Belong To
Me - Duprees (S)/Lovers Who Wander - Dion
(S, short)/Smoky Places - Corsairs (M)/I
Love You - Volumes (M)/You Beat Me To The
Punch - Mary Wells (S)/Turn On Your Love
Light - Bobby Bland (S, alternate
version)/Bring It On Home To Me - Sam
Cooke (E)/Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil
Sedaka (S)/Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes
(E)/You Better Move On - Arthur Alexander
(S, alternate take)/I Need Your Lovin' -
Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford (M)/Torture -
Kris Jensen (M)

There never was a stereo recording of the
mono hit, Kent, it was done live to mono,
hence the need for a stereo re-record.

Tom,

any idea when that stereo re-record was done and when it first
appeared? Yeah, I know, that's the question I can't get answered.
I do like it - it's not a "cheesy remake".

This stereo, and comparatively less intense, remake of
"You Better Move On" also appears on Ripite/EMI's
collection Beach Music Vol. 3. I agree that it's a quite
tastefully done remake and is obviously a vintage
recording so it was done close enough in approach to the
original that some may not even realize that it's not the
same take.