However, this long belief turned out to be erroneous. As I reported previously in a series of blog posts on this topic (05/22/2019, 07/13/2019, and 07/22/2019), the vinyl copies of the album issued in Brazil (CBS 138.641) back in 1982 already contained the alternative take instead of the regular track. It was three years before the Japanese version came out, and it was not a CD but vinyl. To the best of my knowledge, the Brazilian LP is the only commercially available source for this track in the vinyl format. So, the story behind how it came about might have differed between Brazilian and Japanese cases as the release year and format are different (i.e., 1982 vs. 1985; vinyl vs. CD). Curiously, the Japanese and Brazilian versions are not the same strictly, differing in the playing time, with the former clocking in at 5 min 35 sec while the latter lasting 5 min 43 sec (see 07/13/2019).
Owing to the huge success of BORN IN THE U.S.A., the vinyl album of NEBRASKA was repressed in the mid-1980s worldwide, in many countries, including Brazil. So, I was wondering whether the Brazilian reissue continued to contain the extended version or not. Sometime in quarantine days last year, I ordered and obtained a 1985's repressing from a Brazilian seller (the copy is shown in the previous post). By appearance, there are no obvious differences between the original and reissue, and the latter is distinguished from the former only by the side-A label that states "1985." I don't know if the lyric sheet, like the original pressing, was included in the reissue (mine did not). Disc's dead-wax matrix numbers are as follows, which look similar but not identical to those for one of the three 1982 releases I possess (Copy #2, see 07/13/2019):
- Side A: EL C 138641 A 1-2-5 AL-38358 I
- Side B: EL C 138641 B 1-1-9 BL-38358
The Side B label still prints the running time of My Father's House as 5 min 43 sec, and this side exactly plays Track 3 as listed. So, probably all the Brazilian copies feature the extended version of this song.
The next post will continue on NEBRASKA LP, focusing on Asian pressings.
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