Styx - Lady

Huh. Learn something new every day. Never knew there was
a short version (hardly expected one given that the "long"
version is less than 3 minutes). Checked my Wooden Nickel
promo, and it turned out to be the 2:33 one. I must be
losing it...40+ years and I'd never noticed.
My RCA reissue single has the 2:58 on it.

John, as you no doubt know, most stations had limited storage space in the MD's office for retaining new promo 45s until they either did or didn't prove themselves worthy of airplay. That usually meant the oldest ones that never made the grade were culled after three or four months and tossed or consigned to the reject pile.

The likelihood that any station that hadn't already played the original 1973 0116 (2:33) single would still have a copy on file nearly two years later was pretty slim. The revamped 10102 (2:58) promo 45s that hit MDs' desks in November '74 was the one that got the airplay when it finally hit.