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The second appearance of The Way I Feel was a re-recording. It was an attempt to recast the song to make it a hit single. (Didn't work, and Gord chuckled about that even at the time).

The single remixes of IYCRMM and Sundown are available on CD; IYCRMM on Gord's Gold and Complete Greatest Hits, and Sundown on Complete Greatest Hits only. Bill Inglot, who did the remastering for all the Rhino releases, was very excited to be able to remaster the single version of Sundown, although so far nobody (among those of us with a good ear) is certain of the difference (from the album version). With IYCRMM it's easy to distinguish because the single version has harmony vocals (by Gord). Even I can hear that (although, in all honesty, I didn't notice until somebody else pointed it out). I was a musicial neophyte when I became a Gord fan, and have learned a lot along the way, including how to listen to music.

For the non-musicians among us (and I am one of those), remixing is re-combining the individual tracks. In it's simplest form, one can add or subtract a track (like the harmony vocals, recorded separately from the lead vocals), as well as change the relative prominence of the tracks. Or one could use a totally new track for, say, the lead vocals, or for part of them, thus changing even the lyrics sung. With the Lightfoot remixes, they are usually just subtle differences in the overall sound; in the case of Sundown, far too subtle for my ears. In the case of Wreck, the single was made shorter (for radio play), obviously leaving out a few musical measures along the way.