Disappointing Singles?

BB&Q Band-"On the beat" where there's no sax at the end

Atlantic Starr's "Secret lovers" never really worked as a
rondo with a combining of the two verses before the
chorus. Edit was a cross-fade and you can't unhear it.

Evelyn King's "I don't know if it's right" starts with a
bridge-like intro instead of the build-up that the
original album version had. The single is an edit of the
12" single and later replaced that nice album version on
subsequent pressings.

Michael Jackson's "Bad" with removal of much of the
horns.

Too many to mention as I really don't prefer the edits
unless a song sounds clunky. Different mixes are really
what I'm after but quite often as we've found in the cd
era, we end up with a new single mix of the album
version.

A couple of my least favorite 45 edits:

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Remixed Short Version aka Special Edit) [i.e. the commercial 45 version]. No Vincent Price at all!

Prince & The Revolution - Let's Go Crazy [45 version with the overdubbed/shortened intro]. IIRC, my local Top 40 station at the time only started playing this abomination once the song was on its way out.

This was mentioned on other threads but these 2 songs had really
disappointing (and horrible) edits for their 45 versions:

While You See a Chance - Winwood
Dream On (1973 single) - Aerosmith

I had tried making a decent neo-single edit of the Winwood song with no
luck. But I was trying to edit spots on beat 1. Luckily, someone here posted
how if you edit on beat 2 (just one beat off from where the real edit occurs)
you can get a smooth edit. Never thought to do that, but he was right, his
edit was good, and I basically did the same thing to get a WAV from my
album version. Too bad the label never thought to edit there. I believe the
length comes out to be about the same as the bad edit.

What's really weird is that when I heard the song in its initial run, I never
noticed the bad edit. It wasn't until years later when I heard the album
version, then went back to listen specifically to the single edit and see
where it was done, that I noticed how horrible it was. And then I could never
un-hear it. I believe it goes "your way-EEEEE". Not even edited on the same
vowel sound!

What I would like is the "Dream On" '73 MIX in its unedited
state.

Always loved the background vox & the echo on the guitar
solo on that mix (but I never liked the out-of-sequence
edit).

Andy