On Let It Bleed You Can't Always Get... has 7:29. However, according to Wikipedia, when it was released as a Honky Tonk Women b-side it had 4:50. Never had a chance to listen to HTW single so there's my question: was this edited album version of YCAGWYW (if so, what did they cut out) or was it a completely different version?

The single edit missed out the choir singing the first verse, and also misses a verse out completely I think, haven't got the cd to hand (I went down to the demonstration?)

Same version edited down. The choir is cut from the original and i think maybe a verse and a chorus although i may not be completely accurate to precisely what. Definitely not a rerecording, however.

The edited version is available on Singles Collection.

Thanks. That's what I thought. However choir part isn't long. I can't check it right now, but I would say it has maybe 40-50 seconds. Having it edited out we still have about 1:30 to edit if we want do end up with 4:50 track. So it made me curiuos wheter they faded out it earlier or cut something else out. Does anybody remember which verse is missing?

Interesting that most stations play the album verson anyways.

josh.

I heard the single first, one of the first RS 45s I bought (didn't get LIB 'til '72 or '73, old enuff to start delving into the catalog) so for quite a while it was the one I knew & loved...The London label had the time listed as 5:00, a nice round number.

It was pretty radical at the time for a single (even a B-side) to break past the 5-minute mark. "Hey Jude" was pretty long but that was an exception.

Does anyone know if the choir was added to the recording after the single was released? There was a period of several months between the release of the HTW single and "Let It Bleed."

apparently the choir parts were added on march 15th 1969.
(that's from nzentgraf.de, as usual!)

I remember buying the HTW single. Couldn't listen to YCA... but I was all of ten years old. It would take somebody lending me "Exile" to start sniffing around this band.