Which channel gets the vocals on Nowhere Man?


This question is directed mostly to Beatles fans out there, but anyone can join in. The other day I was listening to the radio in my car when the DJ played Nowhere Man. Well the vocals began "He's a real Nowhere Man sitting in his Nowhere land" came out of the left channel while the music was in the right channel. When I got home, I put on Rubber Soul and when I played Nowhere Man, it was the opposite, the vocals came out of the right channel and the music came out of the left channel. In your experience, should the vocals be in the right channel or the left channel?
cyclonicman

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Thanks for your response!! Yours is a verification that I wanted to hear because,on my setup, I have the vocals on the right and the music on the left also. I am listening to the parlophone CD of Rubber Soul. Although I still have my vinyl albums, I don't have a turntable any longer. At this point even if I did, I would need to get an outboard phono preamp to hook into my linestage only. From what I have read, The Beatles themselves were only involved with the mono mixes of their records, they actually didn't appreciate stereo and left it to George Martin.
Bill, I already performed that investigation and I have had this occur in 2 different cars and only noticed it because I am a huge Beatles fan and am so familiar with their music. The strange thing is that when I play the Rubber Soul CD in the car, vocals are correctly placed in the right channel. I thought it was odd that the radios were incorrectly hooked up (factory installation) in both of my cars and so I actually emailed the radio station in NY, 104.3 FM, and presented them with my observation. I never heard back from them, probably thought I was some jackass.