One For The Mockingbird

Andy: When you ask a question like this about a song/possible promo from 1987 (by FAR the "black hole" of ALL 45v on CD promo years) if it's not already in Pat's book, the answer will almost always be NO. Even the long and helpful Hitmakers V/A series didn't begin 'til '88. But 3 of the major labels (Capitol, Columbia/Epic and Virgin) did happen to put out between 2 and 4 1987 "label samplers" each. These, the then almost-never-made-yet, ULTRA-rare promo CD single, or an import would be your ONLY hopes for 1987. VERY luckily for you, Cutting Crew was on Virgin, and on a 5-track sampler called "Singles Scene: A Virgin Compilation" (PR 2018), cut 5, titled simply "Mockingbird", with a listed time of (4:06), has the 45 mix. That this exists is SO unlikely, I feel like you won lotto!