Well, I went and listened to Pete’s demo of Helpless Dancer and–you learn something new every day–the lines are written that way. I always thought the lyric was supposed to be “die from being cold, left alone because they’re old” and Rog misread them when he recorded his vocals.
So it’s still a mistake, but way back in the writing process… :-}
Slight fluff at 1:25 …
I just remembered one that got addressed in a TV Jackson 5 biopic I watched years ago— in “I’ll be there” at one point Michael sing-says “just look over your shoulders, honey!”. In the TV biopic young Michael sheepishly says to Berry Gordy “I’m sorry, I should have said shoulder, singular”. Gordy says, “no, I love it!”
In real life it was probably more like “goddamit Michael, get your shit together. But let’s keep going because I don’t have the time or the money to do another retake”.
I’m not even sure I hear the fluff (is it in the left hand?) but if we’re doing jazz records, man, there’s so many of them with little flubs and slips of the fingers here and there.
It’s right hand (timing) and it’s very subtle …
(i always notice it more in my car !)
Wasn’t there an adage among jazz players that if you repeat your flubs, people will think they were intentional?
There still is !
Is it kind of right after that grace/slide note as the run turns around to come down the blues(ish) scale? Man, you’re a tough one to please, if that’s it. 
Whenever I hear the keyboard solo to “All My Love” by Led Zeppelin, there’s a few places where John Paul Jones hits two keys at the same time that I interpret to be flubbed notes and not intentional. No matter how I try to hear it as perhaps a grace note, it sounds to me like he’s just accidentally hits the note next to one he meant to hit. Here’s one at the end of the solo (2:50 is the one I’m thinking of).
I mean, I might very well be intentional, but it just sounds a bit goofy to my ears, no matter how often I hear it. There’s also one at around 2:40 that sounds a bit off to me. I guess there being two or three of these blips points to intentionality, but my brain can’t hear it as anything but a mistake.
I’m not sure where the “mistake” comes in, but printed lyrics to the song “Welcome” on the Tommy album by the Who read:
Milkman come in!
And you baker
Little old lady welcome
And you shoe maker
However, Roger Daltrey clearly is singing Jew shoemaker.
I once bought a $2 classical record album featuring one of those high-toned outfits like the South Vilnius Radio Symphony Orchestra. Midway through a quiet movement one of the players knocks over his/her music stand, which falls with a crash. The producer apparently figured that for two bucks, listeners shouldn’t expect perfection.
Sadly, this attitude towards permeates throughout the entire business world. 
It also sounds like “an’ Jew baker” to me, too. It’s just a dialect/accent thing (unless I’m being whooshed here.) In my accent, we say stuff like “Jew eat?” for “did you eat.” It’s the “d” eliding with the “y” glide that ends up being smooshed into a “J” sound.
As a teenager in choir in an Indiana junior high school, we were instructed to not “chew your ’you’s’.”
Scrantonese?
I should clarify the progression is more like “did you eat” > “di’joo eat”/“di’juh eat” > “jew eat” > “jeet”. I don’t think we reduce it all the way to “jeet” that often, but “jew eat yet?” sounds perfectly fine to my Chicago ears. You hear similar things in some British accents, as well, with "t+yoo "and “d+yoo” combinatinos of sound forming “tchoo” and “dzhoo/jew”.
^ Have we stumbled into, “Annie Hall”?
Heh. My original post had a reference to Annie Hall, but I edited it out for brevity.
I’ll check it out. I wonder how similar it is to the youtube channel “You Can’t Unhear This”
In Frank Sinatra’s recording of Kander & Ebb’s New York, New York, he forgets the line “cream of the crop” and so says “A-number one” a second time.
I’ll check THAT out.