Clearly, some of these decisions were made on a Monday

Citing a lack of enthusiasm on their part to promote his records, Gordon Lightfoot moved from United Artists to Reprise Records. His first release under Reprise was the 1970 album  “Sit Down Young Stranger.” Original pressings, like shown here, have no writing on the jacket at all. Soon however, Reprise decided to add both Lightfoot’s name & the album title. Thus born version number two. And everyone was happy. 

Well, not quite. Rather than the title track becoming the most well known song on the album, it was the song following it, “If You Could Read My Mind,” that was most popular on the charts, both at home & in the US. Not wishing to miss an opportunity, Reprise added onto the jacket a coloured blurb mentioning the more popular song, first in tan (version 3) & then in pink (version 4). Finally, in late 1970 they gave up on the original title all together & simply used “If You Could Read My Mind” by itself. Version number 5. Initially the vinyl label continued to used the original title (perhaps not to waste them) but this too eventually reflected the title change.