Expert: Chalk - 10/29/2009

Question
There are Beatles records that are on hip pocket record format ( they were these very small records in the 60's that were flexible & you had to play them on this little player, They were a flop but are now a rare collectors items )





for info



http://www.rarebeatles.com/photospg/flexiad.htm



http://www.friktech.com/btls/tapes/pkd.htm



http://www.icollector.com/The-Beatle...ecord_i7034747



http://rocknrollgraffiti.blogspot.co...to-ignite.html



I've never heard Hey jude on H.P. format & I would love to see how it fades or does it just stop when the needle runs out of grooves at 3:25.



( That above was a excerpt from a post that I put on beatlelinks.net and a little discussion came up and other members mentioned a 5 minute edit on the us version of the beatles 20 greatest hits.) So I looked for that one as well, because I am a beatles audiophile.



So I downloaded it and I found more info about it on wikipedia and it said :: For the US album, catalogue number SV 12245, a five-minute edited version of "Hey Jude" was used due to time constraints; this edited version dates from 1968 when it was created for use by Capitol Records on the four-inch flexi "Pocket Discs" that were sold in vending machines at that time.



Now are there three different regular "official" versions of hey jude that are out besides the anthology & love version? .



example

the original 45 single ,

the hip pocket version &

the 20 greatest hits version ....



or are there only two?

the single regular versions &

the hip pocket& 20 greatest hits version that are the same thing?



because why would all these sources above say 3:25 about the hip pocket & the wiki info from the 20 greatest hits version say 5 minutes?



Please help me with this endeavor. thank you


Answer
Hi, Roger,

I really know nothing about hip pocket records, and I don't even remember them from the 60s.

As for versions of "Hey Jude", I've done a Google search for you which may help you move forward in your project: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=%22Beatles+versions%22+of+%22Hey+Jude%22&meta=c...

Regards,

Chalk.