Crimson and Clover helped Tommy James and The Shondells to get into the long track album era as the song was recorded at its 45rpm single length and then the song was extended for the album making it popular on both Top 40 in its single version and on some FM rock stations in its album version and there are some singles that were a bit longer than the album versions such as You Ain't Goin' Nowhere by the Byrds, Sometimes a Fantasy by Billy Joel among others.
There is also the famous deal with In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly, Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie, lots of Pink Floyd, a lot of Disco album versions, notably Love To Love You Baby by Donna Summer, etc. where some songs take a whole LP side. In the case of In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, although Top 40 radio did play the single version, the album version is the version that actually sold the most copies. Arlo did do an Alice's Rock and Roll Restaurant single but the single stiffed but the album sold millions. The Doors, Led Zeppelin, the Peter Gabriel era Genesis (this is their most critically acclaimed period these days and their albums Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, etc. are often on critics' all time greatest albums lists), the 1970s Yes albums, Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick (the whole song on both sides of the LP), etc. are known for this as well. There are promo 45s of American Pie that lasted 2 minutes or so but the editing was poor leading to AM stations playing the album version and it was first played on FM Rock stations unedited. Layla is another case when the whole album version outsold the first pressing single when FM rock stations started playing it along with Bell Bottom Blues and other tracks from the album so in 1972, Atco reissued the single commercially with the whole album version compressed to 1 side and that 45rpm single was what sold although AM Top 40 still played the original 45rpm edited version. Creedence's Suzie Q 45 was a Part 1 and Part 2 single with Part 1 being the core vocal part and the Part 2 being the instrumental ending and Progressive FM stations played the whole thing off of the album.
If you used Hey Jude from the Past Masters Vol. 2 CD mastered in the 1980s or the 1993 pressing of 1967-1970, you'd get the dynamic range. I have an Advanced Promo CD of late 1990s country star Lila McCann's debut album that has dynamic range. The commercially released CD is compressed to heck.
Crimson and Clover helped Tommy James and The Shondells to get into the long track album era as the song was recorded at its 45rpm single length and then the song was extended for the album making it popular on both Top 40 in its single version and on some FM rock stations in its album version and there are some singles that were a bit longer than the album versions such as You Ain't Goin' Nowhere by the Byrds, Sometimes a Fantasy by Billy Joel among others.
There is also the famous deal with In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly, Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie, lots of Pink Floyd, a lot of Disco album versions, notably Love To Love You Baby by Donna Summer, etc. where some songs take a whole LP side. In the case of In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, although Top 40 radio did play the single version, the album version is the version that actually sold the most copies. Arlo did do an Alice's Rock and Roll Restaurant single but the single stiffed but the album sold millions. The Doors, Led Zeppelin, the Peter Gabriel era Genesis (this is their most critically acclaimed period these days and their albums Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, etc. are often on critics' all time greatest albums lists), the 1970s Yes albums, Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick (the whole song on both sides of the LP), etc. are known for this as well. There are promo 45s of American Pie that lasted 2 minutes or so but the editing was poor leading to AM stations playing the album version and it was first played on FM Rock stations unedited. Layla is another case when the whole album version outsold the first pressing single when FM rock stations started playing it along with Bell Bottom Blues and other tracks from the album so in 1972, Atco reissued the single commercially with the whole album version compressed to 1 side and that 45rpm single was what sold although AM Top 40 still played the original 45rpm edited version. Creedence's Suzie Q 45 was a Part 1 and Part 2 single with Part 1 being the core vocal part and the Part 2 being the instrumental ending and Progressive FM stations played the whole thing off of the album.
If you used Hey Jude from the Past Masters Vol. 2 CD mastered in the 1980s or the 1993 pressing of 1967-1970, you'd get the dynamic range. I have an Advanced Promo CD of late 1990s country star Lila McCann's debut album that has dynamic range. The commercially released CD is compressed to heck.