Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

I realize this is a couple weeks late (and not a top 40 hit), but I have a version of "Christmas Wrapping" (issued on a Broadcast Programming radio compilation) that chops off the first 21 seconds and starts where the drums kick in.

Does anyone have a US 45 of this song? If so, does it contain the full 5:20ish version, or was there a shorter version on the single?

I remember looking for an edit when the song was released but none was available. Which is kind of odd because it sounds like the intro was extended by using the music from the first verse without the vocals to give it the long intro. There's also an obvious splice right before the vocal starts.

So I agree with Jim, the comp took poetic license, and the 5:25 version was all that was officially released either commercially or promotionally.

Thanks, gentlemen! I've never seen it on any other disc with the intro chopped, so indeed, it was a bit of "poetic license."

If I'm not mistaken, Broadcast Programming eventually became part of Jones / TM Studios / Dial Global. Their discs were designed for automation systems that could play CDs (perhaps even a specific system). Although my old station did not use a CD automation system, we used a ton of their discs on the air. Whatever automation system they were designed for must not have had the capability to fade out the end of the song when the next one started, because all of the tracks on the disc have a quick, early fade (at least ones from a period in the mid-90s were this way). This was obviously designed so that two songs woudn't overlap for 10 or 15 seconds at the segue point.

Given the purpose of these discs (automation), it doesn't surprise me that they shortened the intro of "Christmas Wrapping," probably thinking that the low volume start would not sound as good on the automated systems.

Edited by aaronk