Stray Cats and the Rolling Stones mono box

My sources tell me that the new Rolling Stones “Stray Cats” compilation will contain 24 tracks not on the other LPs in the set… and including most of what I outlined in this post and this one.

To recap: all of the Stones’ 1960s albums are being released in a new boxed set, using the mono mixes (which were the preferred and, usually, only mixes done back then… stereo was still new).  Because albums, singles and EPs were chopped up all over the world back then, many songs are not included on the group’s LPs.

“Stray Cats” aims to fix this.  Still, there are a few anomalies to this set.  Several 1960s Stones cuts are still missing:

-From the 1965 UK EP Got Live If You Want It: a snippet of crowd chanting ("We Want The Stones"), a snippet of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," and the song "Pain in My Heart" (otherwise unavailable).

-"Tell Me": there's actually two versions of this song, one without piano (2:52, briefly released by mistake) and one with (4:06, but edited down significantly on certain releases).  Early pressings of the UK debut album mistakenly included the 2:52 version; all subsequent releases have featured the long version with piano. The long version appeared on the UK LP after the mistake was corrected. Most other LP and CD versions of the UK debut album -- as well as the US debut album -- contain an edit of the long version, which fades out around 3:48.

-"Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Memphis Tennessee": These are outtakes that somehow were released on various foreign compilations (such as the German “Rolling Stones Story Part 2,” which attempted to do what “Stray Cats” has done).

-“Memo from Turner”/"Natural Magic": Two songs from the 1970 film “Performance,” starring Mick Jagger.  The A-side is a Stones recording (and was included on the 1990 London Singles box), but was originally released as a Mick Jagger solo single.  The b-side is a brief instrumental by Jack Nitzsche.  These likely weren’t included because they were released only in stereo.

Instead of these songs, “Stray Cats” includes a few items of limited necessity:

-Two versions exist of “We Love You”… one closes with a distorted-vocal coda (available on most compilations).  An alternate version ends with John Lennon saying "Your health!" (available on More Hot Rocks and GRRR!).  “Stray Cats” lists “the single version,” so it could be either one.

-“The Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man” is also listed as a “single version”; not sure what that means (the song is already on both the US and UK Out of Our Heads albums)

-“Street Fighting Man” is listed as the single version, which was an alternate mono mix.  As noted in the second post on the mono box, this song is on the album Beggar’s Banquet.  That entire album’s mono mix (except “Sympathy For the Devil”) is a fold-down, i.e. not a true mono mix.  Why not just place this single mix on the LP, which will already be included in the box?  Such a waste.

-“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is listed as the single mix; as far as I know, that just means the French Horn intro from the album has been removed.  If you know more, please leave a comment!