The Velvet Forum

Kill Mick wrote:Couldn't the actual track have been added to the master tape after 25 October though? If it's a tape, as opposed to an acetate, surely another track could be added at anytime?

Possible I guess, but my gut feeling is that 25.10.66 is the date the final, final master was assembled, the plates for pressing the LP were then manufactured, and nothing further was added after that. Otherwise, there would be test pressing of the album in existence without Sunday Morning. White label copies of the album were circulating in late 1966 (I think this is how Bowie got to record Waiting For The Man around this time - and you can also hear the record spinning in the background of the Index flexi), and I'm sure we'd know about any that had a different track listing.

Also, this is inconclusive, but on the tape box "Sunday Morning" appears to be in the same handwriting as "10-25-66".

The one tape box note that I find tantalising is the one on WL/WH:

NEW VERSION - "I Heard Her Call My Name" 4.35
NOTE: AFTER HEAVY WHITE LEADER - DO NOT USE

The version of I Heard Her Call My Name that was apparently used on the album is badged as the "OLD VERSION", with the note "This is the master for single, mono and stereo albums". The timing is 4.35 as above.

What this suggests to me is that the master for the WL/WH album contains, at the very least, an alternate mix of I Heard Her Call My Name. Wonder why it's never surfaced?