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The Cadet single and the Occasional Rain album are from 1972. The first released version is by Jerry Butler on the You & Me album from 1969. The Terry Callier 45 is virtually identical to the album version (the only difference is the slightly truncated piano solo on the 45, a difference of a few seconds). Callier later re-cut it in quite different style on the Elektra lp Turn You To Love in 1979.

A Terry Callier version from September 1969 (around exactly the time of the Jerry Butler album's appearance) was released on the album First Light on Premonition Records in 1998. It's a radically different version, over six minutes long in a slower, more acoustic vein with a great electric piano mid-section. I don't have the facility to add sound files but someone else might be able to. It's well worth hearing.

I've always wondered where the Cadet single was first played on the UK soul scene: as a new release or as a later 'revival' in the wake of the club success of the Elektra cut?

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