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 To: Love-Hounds
 From: Andrew Marvick (IED)
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   There are many other recordings of the Irish folksong "My Lagan Love",
including a famous early version by the great John McCormick; a version
by the artsinger (pure soprano in classical manner) Angela Pearson
with harp accompaniment on a Hebrides album called _My_Lagan_Love_;
a rockier version by Maura O'Connell; and, if IED is not mistaken,
a version by A.L. "Burt" Lloyd; as well as an instrumental version
by the Irish band The Wolftones.
   Jeff Burka describes a twelve-inch of _Hounds_of_Love_ which
woj concludes is the EMI-America pressing. The official _HoL_ 12"
from EMI-UK featured a mix called "Alternative Hounds". It is quite
different from the album version, mainly in that Kate has removed
the lead vocal and replaced it with a new ad-libbed lead vocal which
runs in counterpoint to the original; as well as a new background
multiply-overdubbed backing vocal by Kate, singing a lot of what
sounds like "Diddly-ah-dee, diddly-ah-dah"s.
   The EMI-America twelve-inch was made mainly for radio promotional
use, and featured as its "extended mix" a U.S.-engineered version
which is simply the album mix with one verse looped in a second time,
in order to give the song another thirty seconds of playing time.
Obviously Kate had nothing to do with this.

-- Andrew Marvick