The Beatles Penny lane promo.45

The Beatles Penny Lane/Strawberry Feilds Forever promo.45 from 1967 has the extra horn riff at the end.

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• thebeatles
• pennylane
• johnlennon
• paulmccartney
• georgeharrison
• ringostarr
• pennylanepromo
• 1967
• promos.

[WAYNE1980AA]

please add the flip side, strawberry fields forever. i love that song! by the way, is the record in stereo or mono?

[teeeeeveeeee314]

I've always wanted to listen to the promo 45! Love that extra horn riff!!!

[visor109]

@1nceBitten2wiceShy Good points, thanks for explaining it.

[1nceBitten2wiceShy]

@visor109 Many stations NEEDED a mono source, so if you only put out a stereo LP, they HAD to have special promo 45s made in mono. Otherwise when they played songs with wide separation you'd only hear half the instruments!!!

Unless of course they were to pay around 79c at Radio Shack for a little stereo-to-mono converting cable. But that would mean they spent more for ONE little plug than the price of TWO 45s back then, so it would hardly be worth the expenditure, right? -- 1b2s

[fromthesidelines]

Because radio stations always received "advance copies" of any song that were supposed to be potential hits, 'visor'. Sometimes, the "promo" copy was different from the one issued to the general public {as in the seven missing piccolo notes in the "official" release}. At the time, virtually all D.J. copies were issued in MONO.

[visor109]

By this time, why would the Beatles even NEED a promo??

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@WAYNE1980AA Mono.

[texs2007]

@RoyFive just to have a version for radio broadcast,i guess.

[texs2007]

Funny story - I had this,but my copy was on Apple!

[texs2007]

@WAYNE1980AA the singles back then were all mono.

[RoyFive]

Why did they pull the horn riff at the end off? Kind of like putting a beard on the Mona Lisa.

[johnsmileyjr]

It pops! It cracks! It's a little warped! It's beautiful!!!