two versions of "cherry, cherry" have been released. the version familiar to most listeners was recorded in late january 1966 and released by bang records in mid-1966, and was recorded as a demo, with butler on keyboards, and jeff barry and ellie greenwich on backing vocals and hand-claps. the other version, with different lyrics and originally intended to be released as the single, was finally released by diamond and sony music entertainment in 1996 on the compilation album "in my lifetime".