songs would cause controversy due to them being sexually suggestive or making supposed references to drugs. The original rendition of "Let Me In", a song about sexual frustration, included the line "Oh, let me in, I wanna be there / I gotta get in, you know where", which was then substituted with "Oh, let me in, I wanna be there / You shut your door, now it ain't fair". In the same song, the line "Don't tell me you want money", possibly alluding to prostitution, was changed to "Don't tell me it's so funny". Similarly, the original version of "Run Around" contained the phrase "Blinded by colors come flashing from flowers that sway as you lay below me", the latter part of which was changed to "that sway as you stay here by me".Along with these lyrical changes, the label also decided that "Runnin' 'Round This World", which included the line "The nights I've spent with you have been fantastic trips", was to be removed from the album entirely, despite having already been released months earlier as the B-side of "It's No Secret". The band attempted to rectify this by replacing the word "trips" with a guitar arpeggio, but ultimately the song was cut from the final version of the record. These last-minute changes led to complications with the album's pressing. Originally, one stereo version and one mono version of the record was to be released, as was the standard at the time. Instead, different variants of the album were manufactured: the first pressings contained the unaltered, original 12 tracks; the second pressings had 11 tracks, omitting "Runnin' 'Round This World", and were manufactured only in mono; the third pressings, containing the altered lyrics, were the most common copies issued and sold from 1966 onward. ("Runnin' 'Round This World" was placed between "Tobacco Road" and "Come Up The Years" in the original 12 track lineup.) Commercial performance Jefferson Airplane Takes Off sold modestly upon release. Although the exact sales figures are not known, Tamarkin estimates that 10,000 to 20,000 copies were sold in California within the first few months; however, in the rest of the US, the album was largely unnoticed with "perhaps as few as 1,000 copies finding their way to consumers." Nevertheless, the strength of the album's sales in the band's home state pushed it onto the Billboard Top 200 on 17 September 1966. It spent a total