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I just have a couple of minutes to comment, so I'll keep this short.

In the first clip, your vowels are wide. They are done with a "mouth resonance" position -- like you're trying to overexaggerate the way you're saying your words in order to maintain the vowel, but in effect, you're ruining the resonance adjustment and the coordination of the registers. If you can, look in the mirror as you sing it the first way, and I'm pretty sure you'll see lots of radical changes in your mouth position when going from word to word. This "mouth resonance" is also causing you to end up with a bit of a high larynx. As a quick note, watch out for those /r/ consonants that come at the end of syllables in words such as "wonder" -- you tend to constrict on them a bit because you're trying to sing on the consonant sound instead of the vowel. For the time being, just sing the vowel then add the /r/ sound at the beginning of the next syllable. When you get more advanced in your technique, you can sing on the /r/ sound in less constricted ways.

As a whole, the second clip was the best. You "mouthed" your vowels a lot less there; everything was more in line, with much less exaggerated mouth positions. Slightly high larynxed and a bit underenergized, but definitely the best out of the three. In that clip, when you sang "magic" in "magic carpet ride" right before the chorus, that was one of the best notes that you did. If you can learn to use that position more often, you will be in good shape. The third clip was pretty good too, even though you had a slight tendency towards nasality.