Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley
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Topic: Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley
Posted By: Brian W.
Subject: Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley
Date Posted: 16 December 2005 at 7:30am
Has Terry Nelson's recording of this song shown up on any imports or promos? Its total absence from CD is flabbergasting.
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 16 December 2005 at 8:36am
i have the 45 but i've never seen this song anywhere on cd......
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Posted By: JL328
Date Posted: 15 November 2012 at 6:11am
Following up on this lost hit, "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by C Company
feat. Terry Nelson....
It appears that Sun Records has released a set of "albums" containing the
old Plantation Records recordings. The name of the set is "Plantation
Records-- the Singles Set." From what I can tell, however, the recordings
are only available digitally on outlets such as iTunes and Amazon.
Volume 3 of the set contains a version of "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" listed
at 3:48. I've listened to the preview on iTunes and it sounds like a match
for the 45 dub I have. I have no doubt this is the correct recording.
But-- there's always a but-- my original 45 of "Battle Hymn" has an actual
run time of only 3:29. I haven't purchased the track from iTunes (yet) but
the run times listed by iTunes in its store are generally pretty accurate
(unless for some reason, there is some dead air at the end of the track).
So, I assume that the iTunes track really does run close to 3:48, which
would be 19 seconds longer than the 45. So, with that said, does
anybody have any idea where the 3:48 version contained on "Plantation
Records-- the Singles Set, Part 3" comes from or how it differs from the
45? I can't imagine there was an "album version" of this track, was there?
In any event, the bigger news, I suppose, is that it looks like another lost
hit from the 1970s (following the acoustic version of "George Jackson" by
Dylan earlier this year) may have appeared on iTunes.
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Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 15 November 2012 at 8:28am
I've just compared the iTunes sample to my 45, and one difference I noticed is that on the iTunes sample there are background singers going "Ooooh" as soon as the singing starts. I don't hear the Ooooh's on the 45.
The hit version was available on iTunes Canada several years ago (I see it's no longer there), but it was mastered from vinyl. I wonder if this is a similar situation as with another Plantation hit, "Groovy Grubworm" by Harlow Wilcox - a recording purchased from another label by Sun but then mastered by Sun from a 45.
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 15 November 2012 at 10:37am
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I may have posted this in another thread, but I found "Battle Hymn" on a German import CD several years ago, definitely from a tape source. It is the exact same recording, but it's in stereo and it runs longer. The choir finishes their chorus of "glory glory hallelujah," as I recall. The single is an early fade of the version I have on CD (though the single is mono).
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Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 25 March 2024 at 9:27am
If I may continue this discussion after a brief
interruption of 4,148 days...
I gather that the CD to which Brian refers above is the
1998 German release Pure Rock 1971:
https://www.discogs.com/release/5909481-Various-Pure-
Rock-1971-The-History-Of-Rockmusic
The version on this CD is the same one running about 3:48
that has been available digitally for some time. I don't
have the song's parent album, Wake Up America, but
according to Discogs the song runs 3:47 on the album. It
can therefore be concluded with a reasonable degree of
certitude that this is the LP version.
In addition to the difference in length and the fact that
the 45 is mono while the presumed LP version is stereo,
the background vocals are not heard on the 45 until a
later point than on the LP. For example, the first time
that Nelson sings "As we go marching on" at 0:50, there
are no background singers heard on the 45 while they are
on the LP. By the time he sings it for the second time at
1:28, there are background singers on both the 45 and LP.
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