Rosie & The Originals - Angel Baby

The original Highland 45 label was incorrect on purpose Aaron to hopefully get radio play. An old trick that the record companies tried often in the AM radio days and it worked well on many occasions including this one.

Aaron, that shorter edit is the UK single version. In the UK, they wisely decided to edit it much shorter. It originally appeared on an Ace CD in the early 90s ("Golden Age Of American R&R Vol 1"). Since the British tape was intact and sounded OK, a lot of US CD's used that version instead of the full U.S. version.

The U.S. master was lost many decades ago so all CD's with the full length version are from vinyl. And, some of them are edit jobs where they took the UK tape version and spliced in the missing portions from vinyl.

Lastly, I'll give my own plug: the version we worked on earlier this year for Complete 60s records is digitally extracted stereo....however when we deconstructed the mix, we used advanced SW to clean each track individually (even the tape source had some distortion present in the original recording). So if you take our stereo mix and fold it to mono you have the cleanest source for the long version anywhere...sounds like a session tape all the way thru.
I never cared for the song much...very lo-fi recording and always sounded shrill. But now it has a great warmth and presence and really like it now - not shrill at all. It sounds like Rosie is standing right in front of you.
Thanks for letting me plug :-)

MM

Thanks for the details, Mark! That makes total sense.