Sock It To Me Baby by Mitch Ryder

My commercial 45 is the same as your promo. I have a promo
of it somewhere, but it seems to be misfiled.

I don't ever recall hearing the alternate version until some
time in the late 80s/early 90s. Could it have been recorded
(and perhaps intended for release) but never actually issued?

i only have the '7022' version...

My stock copy is also the standard "7022" (it's a vinyl ARP pressing, although the usual script ARP deadwax logo isn't present.)

As to what the contested words might be, on my copy, it's pretty clear he's singing "honeybuck and "hits me like a puck." A Red Wings hockey reference, perhaps? ;) Both times it appears, there's a major-league "P" pop in the mic on "puck" and a very deliberate "k" sound on both "honeybuck" and "puck."

Pat sent me mp3's of both pressings of the 45 and I was
able to synchronize them so the difference was more
obvious.
I also sync'd the LP version to the 45.

As for the lyric, I always assumed the words were
"honeybunch" and "hit me like a punch" but I do concede
he yells his "ch" sound much like a "K" sound. But
"punch" makes more sense to me.

Now, on the revised edited 45, all they did was take his
word "punch" and make the vocal a few DB louder and
turned it way up on the "ch" sound to make that clearer.
They also dip the volume of the backing music down low
just for a 1/2 second to make the word really stand out.   
They then took the one-word segment and spliced it back
into the standard 45. The splice points are little off so
it stretches the time between those 2 beats, throwing the
sync off.   But once I fix that time shift, it reveals
it's the same word from the same take, just louder.
I too am curious to know if this "revised" edit made it
onto any commercial 45's.

Now, for the stereo LP version, the only part of the song
that is an alternate take is the first verse. That is
quite obviously a different take. They cut in the
different take starting at :20 on the word "honey" and it
switches to the stereo LP take at :33 on the word "sock".   
The mix, however, is very different throughout. The
whistle sound effects are not the same ones on the LP,
there are lots of reverb effects on the stereo that are
not on the 45 mix and of course the stereo LP version
runs longer at the end.

So it's very good the hit mono mix has turned up on
several CD's.

MM