"Mr. Bojangles" - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The alternate version of "Mr. Bojangles" that appears
on some B-sides of the 45 was also released on the
2006 Fuel CD "An Introduction to the Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band."

I had never heard this version, nor had heard of it,
until I recently purchased this budget CD. I had
wrongly assumed that this B-side version was the hit
take with the Uncle Charlie monologue edited out.

Thanks to you guys for explaining why the first part
of the song sounds like an alternate take, but the
rest of the song sounds like the hit version (at least
it does to me).

Edited by collectahit

Hykker wrote: Todd Ireland wrote: Also, I know I asked this question previously in this thread, but for any of our esteemed DJ veterans here on the board who was spinning "Mr Bojangles" on the airwaves back in 1971... Did your station play the full version with the "Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy" spoken prologue? To answer your year-old question, in 1971 I was a weekender at a small-market station in northern New England. I don't recall the PD indicating which was the "preferred" version, but most of the djs seemed to stick with the short version. Other (more structured) stations in larger markets in the area played the short version exclusively.

I was encouraged to play the short side without prologue.
However, at WATO 1290 in Oak Ridge, TN I was allowed to
play the long side with prologue when I needed to change
the Automation tapes on the WUUU 94.3 FM sister on the
other end of the building, or do other work on the FM
side, also this was done due to me being a physically
challenged operator/engineering assistant. I got to
sometimes play album cuts due to the above reasons if I
was on air.

To add to the discussion from years back, I've never heard
anything but the 3:34 version. Nobody plays this song on
the radio anymore but when I heard it it was the 3:34
version.

eriejwg wrote: Nobody plays this song on the radio anymore but when I heard it it was the 3:34 version.

Hard to imagine it's not played on radio stations that focus on '70s music ... or Sirius XM's 70s channel. I haven't really noticed one way or the other, but I can't believe it's been too many years that I haven't heard this on some oldies radio station.

eriejwg wrote: The last time they played it on 70s on 7 was in mid December of 2018.

How do you find that out?