On 10 Oct 2004, at 23:07, John Milne wrote:
>Something which I've wondered since it first came out:
>Did Bill and Jimmy originally intend Maxine Harvey to sing the single
>mix of "Justified and Ancient", and only changed it once Tammy Wynette
>got involved?  Is that why we have the "All Bound For Mu Mu Land"
>version (as featured on CHOC ICE 1 and the CD single/12"?)

there is an interview somewhere... can't remember if it was a tv or in
a mag, where they are talking about justified and ancient, and how
tammy ended up on it - and they say something along the lines of how
they'd put it all together and recorded maxine singing it all, and then
they found out that they could get tammy wynette, so they flew out
there, spent a day or so having her record the lyrics, flew back and
found that she was totally off speed and out of tune and had to jig
around with the recording loads to make it fit with the rest of the
track

i thinking i definately read that somewere, so it must have been a
magazine interview

so at the least, i think Maxine's vocals were the backup in case tammy
refused to join the jams