Originally Posted by
John Sands
I had the 'Jimmy Mack' 45 in 1967 and bought the 'Watchout' album, eager to hear it in stereo but was surprised to find that it was a much different version. Much slower.
Awhile later I bought a Motown hits compilation and the version on that was the slow version from "Watchout' with a clapping track added to speed it up.
Not long after I purchased another hits album and the same slower version was on that and sped up with an ever faster clapping track.
I read that the 45 version was on the Anthology which I didn't buy but I finally heard the 45 version in stereo, an extended version, on a Vandellas hits cd.
I read somewhere that the faster version was recorded in England when the group was on tour and they did it on a show and the demand for it was so great. Any truth in that and if so maybe the master for it was in England thus the slower versions were used in US compilations?
Thanks for listening.
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