Tommy Roe "Sweet Pea"

davidclark wrote: there are also two distinct stereo mixes of "Sheila". One where the drums start off alternating center and left channel then staying mostly left, with the vocals and other instrumentation up center (the drums thing happens again at 1:03). My other stereo mix has drums and Tommy's vocal center, with guitar left and organ and background vocals right.

I just checked my mp3s -- the version of Sheila off Tommy Roe's Greatest Hits cd is mono (yes -- 45 version), the only other version I still have as an mp3 has the drums mostly centered, sometimes panning to the right a little bit, acoustic guitar is left, electric guitar is right, background vocals are right. Don't hear an organ on this song at all....i didn't like the other mix i had heard of the song so i didn't end up keeping a copy of it....stupid me, such things could always come in handy, as i've learned.

Back around 1960, Tommy Roe released two singles on the "Judd" label:

-Judd 1018: Caveman/I Gotta Girl
-Judd 1022: Shiela/Pretty Girl

One of my best friends inherited his older cousin's 45 collection, and she'd bought the 45 after hearing it on local radio in 1962. Strangely, the 45 she was sold in CT then was the JUDD 45, which actually mis-spells the song title as "Shelia". I borrowed and dubbed this Judd 45, and although similar, it is NOT the same take featured on the 1962 ABC-Paramount 10329 single, b/w "Save Your Kisses."

Gary Mack wrote: Really? How'd the mono mix escape the great ABC/Dunhill/Dot/MCA tape purge? You sure it's not the reverb-added stereo version summed to mono?

Not ALL ABC tapes were thrown out, but the bulk of them were. It's possible they pulled the song off some various artists mono lp reel or that a mono tommy roe lp master still existed or the 45 master if it still existed. IIRC Bill Inglot did the tape research for that cd and went with the mono--he wouldn't have used a mono'd down stereo source, and even said he went with the original mono mix because according to him the stereo was a different version, but i dont remember hearing any differences beyond a mix difference. It's definitely a tape source for the song....they could've also used a tape source from overseas, as i know it was pressed up in many countries (and Universal has or had vaults in France and Germany at least, that I know of).

Here's reviving an old thread!

Bill, to follow up with your post 2007 October 18 about The Grass Roots
"Midnight Confessions", you state the mix on "The ABC Collection" is different
from 1971 "Their 16 Greatest His" LP, and that the "The ABC Collection" mix is
on the Vintage Music CD. When I compared "Their 16 Greatest His" and
"Vintage Music", they are the same version. This has got me wondering, is that
"The ABC Collection" mix the one that turned up on Rhino's "Anthology"?

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