Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Although not noted in the database, "Immigrant Song" on the Led Zeppelin boxed set does not feature the ramp up heard on the beginning of the stereo stock 45. Does anybody know, is that ramp up on other CD sources and just missing from the boxed set? Or was the ramp up exclusive to the single?

Timing matches up because the 45 is at a faster pitch than the boxed set version.

Ramp up is also on Mothership.

There's been like 70 pressings of the 45. They kept it available maybe even through the 90's because of the non LP B side. My copy is pretty old but it's stereo, not sure when it was pressed but probably in the early 70's.

I've never seen it on the Atlantic Oldies series, all copies I've seen are on the red Atlantic stock label.

Looks like the Led Zeppelin box is simply missing the ramp up intro.

There was the initial pressing with the cryptic "Do What Thou Wilt Shalt Be the Whole of the Law" etched in the deadwax. On the left below is the more common 1971 pressing without the mini-novel in the deadwax. Steve, both the A- and B-sides of this copy are stereo.

I bought the reissue on the right in the early '90s, primarily to get the complete, barely-audible ending to "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" on a cleaner pressing, but the reissue faded the song out before it got to the very end.

"Immigrant Song"/"Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" was apparently released as number 13131 on the Atlantic Oldies Series, but, like Bill, I've never seen a copy.

Lol.. I couldn't think of a better way to describe the beginning of this song. Sounds like tape echo/feedback or something faded up right before the actual music starts.