Byrds - EIGHT MILES HIGH

I only own the remastered version which contains the LP version and it is mono.

i just bought the cd the byrds 'the original singles 1965-
1967 volume 1' issued as columbia 37335 and it has the ring
groove numbers 'DIDP-070500' on it and it contains the non
drum roll ending....does anyone own the cd version WITH the
drum roll ending?...if so....could they list the inner ring
numbers?

okay.....so i took another one for the team!!.....with the
help of 80smusicfreak, i bought the byrds 'the original
singles 1965-1967 volume 1' which was pressed in japan and
it STILL doesn't have the correct drum roll ending of
'eight miles high'.....even with all good idea/suggestions
we can't find an 'original version' that has the correct
drum roll ending.....pat, what does your cd contain in the
run out groove.....this pressed in japan cd contains 'CK-
37335-A1C32'.....but you have to read that from the
underside of the cd......

Ed, as stated above, I only own the 2nd pressing of "The Original Singles 1965-1967" which features the LP version i.e. without the ending drum roll. The matrix number is DIDP 070500    1.

Just to clarify for fellow board members, before I posted my response to edtop40 six days ago, I read this thread from the beginning, where davidclark first mentioned Pat's notation in his listings re: "Eight Miles High" on CDs of The Original Singles 1965-1967, Volume 1. Since I'm not an on-line database subscriber, I checked my copy of the 10th edition of Pat's book, and sure enough, there he states for this song & CD, "(Early pressings of this cd had the commercial 45 version but the remastered pressings include the LP version)"; therefore, I assume the on-line database still retains that same comment to this day...

While I've owned The Original Singles 1965-1967, Volume 1 on cassette for some 25+ years now, I admit I don't have have any pressing of it on CD. But as I've mentioned here previously, I travel all over the northeast, scouring used record stores for vintage/audiophile/collectible CDs; the ones I don't keep for myself I end up selling or trading to my brother, who does quite well selling them on eBay, and elsewhere. Anyway, point being, I immediately remembered that The Original Singles 1965-1967, Volume 1 was indeed one of the first CDs released on the U.S. market circa 1983-84, as I'd found a vintage Japan-for-U.S. pressing of that very title about two years ago, which would make that version the first - and therefore, unquestionably meet Pat's criteria of "early", when looking for a copy w/ the 45 version of "Eight Miles High", w/ the drum-roll ending. Alas, I elected to give that copy to my brother at the time (who's long since sold it), and I admit that before letting him have it, I didn't cross-check the top 40 hits on the CD w/ the info in Pat's book, nor did I actually listen to it - so I don't know for sure which version of "Eight Miles High" was on it...

But going under the assumption that Pat's book/database note was accurate, after reading edtop40's post six days ago, I knew that I could help him. It was clear to me from the matrix info that he gave in his post that he certainly didn't have a first pressing of Original Singles, so I checked for him on eBay, and noticed that there were at least three copies of the original Japan-for-U.S. pressing on Columbia CK 37335 being offered. So I e-mailed him directly, explaining to him what he needed to look for, and steered him toward those three early copies... :-)

edtop40 wrote: okay.....so i took another one for the team!!.....with the help of 80smusicfreak, i bought the byrds 'the original singles 1965-1967 volume 1' which was pressed in japan and it STILL doesn't have the correct drum roll ending of 'eight miles high'.....even with all good idea/suggestions we can't find an 'original version' that has the correct drum roll ending.....pat, what does your cd contain in the run out groove.....this pressed in japan cd contains 'CK-37335-A1C32'.....but you have to read that from the underside of the cd......

Well, all I can say is, there's no question you now have a first pressing of that CD, ed - and honestly, I'm very surprised (and disappointed) to learn it didn't have the correct version of "Eight Miles High" that you were looking for! I can definitely cite plenty of other examples where the first pressings of certain CDs contain different versions of a song (or songs) on them...

edtop40 wrote: then, how do you know that the originally issued cd has the correct version, as you state in the db?

Yes, that now becomes the $64,000 question here - and one that I'm afraid only Pat can answer. Perhaps the info he originally got was second-hand, and the CD that person had was actually an import??? That's my best guess, at this point...