Planned Single Release
Describing it as a "single-that-never-was", Simon Leng goes so far as to write that "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" would have been a "certain number 1" had it been issued as a single. A release was scheduled for 24 September 1973: an acetate had been created, and a US catalogue number assigned (Apple 1866). The release was cancelled at the last minute, however, for undisclosed reasons. Leng has speculated that it might have been due to the similarity between "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" and "Give Me Love", the chart-topping lead single from Living in the Material World. Author Andrew Grant Jackson speculates that the reason the single was not released was its having a similar sound to the McGuinness Flint song "When I'm Dead and Gone."
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