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Originally posted by Gord H:
I don't know exactly rare this 45 is, but I won Tom Thumb's Blues. :D
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Well I found a copy in a store in Ottawa back in 1988 but somehow it warped and this scan shows the crack that I made trying to flatten it! and careful application of superglue failed to restore it!
Showing the flip side of the "Underground" re-issue the overlooked hit song Spin Spin
whereas the original United Artists single of Spin Spin was coupled with For Lovin' Me
Nowadays Spin Spin is available in two versions on two different Bear Family CDs:-
1. A "remixed" (in New York) version from Sept 1966 on their Sunday Concert plus issue which has 5 "bonus" tracks and
2. What is probably the "hit" version recorded in Nashville on their double CD BHOE/DSMMN Plus.
I am anxious to know definitively which is the "hit" version issued as and becoming the top ten canadian hit of 1966 that first alerted me to the Lightfoot experience and I am never sure if what I heard was the Nashville recording or the New York remix, and my single is unplayable now to check
It should be possible to tell which is which from the running times, but both the Underground and UA labels say 2:32
whereas SCPLUS runs 2:36 and the BHOE/DSMMN is 2:29
to complicate matters an mp3 I made from my underground single in 1999 before it got warped runs 2:31
and an mp3 allegedly made from the UA single that I found runs 2:35
Thus the running time method is unreliable and an aural comparison is required
If you also have the CD versions on the two Bear Family CDs could you compare with your prized 45 please Gord?
John Fowles
In the web of wild desire
And I cannot control the fire
I've been kinda busy building PC's and what not. Anyway I decided to take the plunge and try Ebay out. I don't know exactly rare this 45 is, but I won Tom Thumb's Blues. :D 
