We discovered in October 2022 that Julie released two different versions of this song from her 1969 Abbey Road sessions. The 1971 LP version on Columbia SCX 6466, (The Beautiful Changes), familiar from the See For Miles and Cherry Red CD re-issues, features a vocal take and an instrumental mix different from the version on the 1970 single, Columbia DB 8649: note the variation in Julie's phrasing and the tympani over the intro on the single version.
What you're hearing now is a pseudo-stereo composite we've created to help you hear the differences: the single is in the left channel and the LP in the right. The LP version also employs increased compression of the dynamic range, but we've compensated for that to emphasise the other differences.
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