Jackson 5 - "Maybe Tomorrow" DJ short v

Correct. And thanks for the heads-up on the release date of Complete
Motown Singles 1972: 12B, Santi. I was gonna Google it myself this weekend,
figuring they'd want to get it out before Christmas, now that the Stevie
Wonder 1972 song issues have finally been resolved.

Starting with the mono version on the Complete Motown Singles box, remove the segment between 1:58 and 2:56 (just before the word "maybe" in both places). Fade out the remaining audio from 3:06 to 3:24. The last words heard on the promo are "you'll come back to my..."

I remember hearing the short mono DJ edit of "Maybe
Tomorrow" on an FM station in New York and liking it
because it was perky (even though I didn't like the
unedited version much). Not consciously realizing it
was a different version, I was disappointed after
buying the 45 at Woolworth's because it was the
tedious (too) long version. (Unhappy that the DJ edit
didn't appear on the 1971 "Complete" Motown Singles
box set. I had to make my own edit!)

Another thumbs down moment was purchasing the 45 of
"Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, so punchy on 97
WWDJ AM radio from New Jersey, but thin-sounding on
the stock copy. (I recently heard a rerun of Casey
Kasum's American Top 40 where he played this beefed-up
mix just as I had remembered hearing it decades
earlier!)

Yet another bummer was buying a stock copy of "The
Best Disco In Town" by the Ritchie Family and
disliking the two-part treatment that split the song
in half, while AM giant 77 WABC in New York played a
radio-only edit that contained both verses of
the medley!

It wasn't until years later that I discovered radio
stations were serviced with specially edited or
remixed versions of some singles, which explained such
aural deceptions.

Edited by collectahit