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Post by maarts on Nov 21, 2005 6:51:46 GMT -5
Thorn- recapping on your recent post- I'll give this one a refreshed listen.  |
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Post by rockkid on Nov 21, 2005 8:42:07 GMT -5
Must have, mine was def Wild Horses.
Like I said I played the damn thing so much it's etched into the brain.
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Post by strat-0 on Nov 23, 2005 18:21:45 GMT -5
Mine was Brown Sugar, A; Bitch, B also.
Seems like there was a "favorite B sides" board somewhere at RS.com.
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Post by kool on Nov 23, 2005 19:15:24 GMT -5
I bought my first 45 and LP the same day. Those being "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" by Yes and Eurythmics' "Touch" respectively.
btw, why did the Stones issue 'Bitch' as a B side? That's one of my favourite Stones' songs EVER!
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Post by RocDoc on Nov 23, 2005 19:21:15 GMT -5
My first LP, 'Meet The Beatles' after I begged and begged and begged my parents to get it for me. Finally they figured out I was nuts for this music...
First 45 was 'I Feel Fine' which I thiiink was backed with 'She's A Woman'....simply loved IFF's feedback intro.
Along with the rest of a perfect pop song.
Nice picture sleeve too...I still have it.
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Post by kool on Nov 23, 2005 19:31:20 GMT -5
Oh, I forgot to mention. "Owner of a Lonely Heart's" B side was an awful track called "Our Song"... which also appears on the terrible album "90???@" [whatever the fuck it was called].
Man, what a shitty CD. I bought it dirt cheap years after its release so I could enjoy "Owner..." all over again in crisp CD quality sound, and also hoping I'd like a few more tracks. Easily one of the worst discs I've ever bought.
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Post by strat-0 on Nov 23, 2005 19:49:21 GMT -5
You're not so young after all, Kool!
Good question about Brown Sugar / Bitch. The record companies always tried to make sure the "B" side was crap so you don't get two hits for the price of one.
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Post by RocDoc on Nov 23, 2005 19:59:56 GMT -5
Except the Beatles... FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 24, 2005
DEAR JERRY: I enjoy reading the frequent questions and answers about my favorite group, the Beatles. I am too young to have experienced Beatlemania in the mid-'60s, but I am learning as much as I can now.
It seems like most of their singles are double-sided hits, but how many of them were not?
Did anyone from the rock era have more two-sided hits than the Fab Four?
Lastly, a line from “You Can't Do That” has always baffled me. It is (I think) “everybody scream 'cause I'm the one who won your love.”
Why would this make them scream?
—Archie Cooke, Lancaster, Pa.
DEAR ARCHIE: In chronological order, here are the Beatles B-sides that did not chart separately: “I'll Get You” (1964 flip of both “She Loves You” and “Sie Liebt Dich”); “I'm Down” (1965 flip of “Help!”); “You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)” (1970 flip of “Let It Be”); and “Old Brown Shoe” (1970 flip of “The Ballad of John and Yoko”).
Of the 30 principal single releases by the group, these four are the only single-sided hits.
Not included in this research are anomalous issues, on labels such as MGM, Atco, and Capitol of Canada, and releases after spring 1970, when the boys disbanded.
Having 26 two-sided hits ranks the Beatles second in that category — a permanent position, I suspect.
Elvis Presley, with an amazing 52, has twice as many and will never relinquish the double-sided hit crown.
In third place is Fats Domino, whose 24 places him just two behind the Beatles.
Rounding out the Top 10 stars who regularly gave us two hits for the price of one are: Pat Boone (21); Nat King Cole (21); Rick Nelson (20); Brenda Lee (17); Ray Charles (16); Perry Como (14); and Connie Francis (13).
With vinyl singles obsolete as far as the charts are concerned, these rankings are as good as frozen.
As for that perplexing line in “You Can't Do That,” it is more about envy than screeching. It really is “everybody's green 'cause I'm the one who won your love,” as in green with envy. To the ear, “everybody's green” sounds very much like “everybody scream.”
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Post by JACkory on Nov 23, 2005 20:04:55 GMT -5
That happened a lot of the time, sure, but the Stones had just started their own record company...I think the "Brown Sugar" single may have even been the first release on Rolling Stones Records...they were probably being a little more generous than most established record companies. The Beatles had been releasing double A-sided singles, so the Stones probably figured it would be the thing to do...The only song on Sticky Fingers that really deserved "b-side status", IMO, was "You Gotta Move" and I seem to remember that might have been the b-side to the US issue of "Wild Horses" (I could be wrong about that, though).
At any rate, I think "Bitch" is every bit as good as "Brown Sugar". Great song...King Tongue used to cover it and it always went over really big with the pool sharks and other inebriates at the dive we played.
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Post by strat-0 on Nov 23, 2005 20:11:30 GMT -5
I found a handful of 45s that survived my childhood/youth:
Brandy / One by One - Looking Glass
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down / When Time is Stolen - Joan Baez
Honky Cat / Slave - Elton John
Smokin' in the Boy's Room / Barefootin' - Brownsville Station
Takin' Care of Business / Stonegates - BTO
Someday Never Comes / Tearin' Up the Country - CCR
Could it be Magic / I Am Your Child - Barry Manilow (hey, I was a kid!)
Summer in the City / Younger Girl - Lovin' Spoonful (it was already and oldie, "Radioactive Gold" label)
The Letter / Happy Times - The Box Tops (also already an oldie, "Flashback Records")
... And from 1985, a "sound page" like they used to put in Guitar Player magazine of Roy Buchanan playing his tune "Blues for Jimmy Nolan." That's pretty hot.
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Post by strat-0 on Nov 23, 2005 20:20:50 GMT -5
Interesting, Jac. And a "mondagreen" too!
All the above listed B sides are crap, except CCR's "Tearin' Up the Country"
One that is missing from my stash is "Deep Purple" by April Stevens and Nino Tempo. The amazing B side on that record was "I've Been Carrying a Torch for You So Long that it's Burned a Great Big Hole in My Heart." I'll never forget that one - it had this sound effect like a wood block right after "so long." My sister and I would listen to the tune while we jumped on the beds and when that part came up, I would act like I was hitting myself in the head and fall down. Classic stuff.
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Post by Ayinger on Nov 23, 2005 23:52:29 GMT -5
First LP:
Uriah Heep "Magician's Birthday" -- purchased Aug. 29, 1973 which was my sister's birthday and she happened to receive a small stereo set-up. She got the player and I started buyin' albums!
45's I remembering having included McCartney's "Live & Let Die" and "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" by Vikki Lawerence ('Mama' on The Carol Burrnet Show/Mama's Family).
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Post by Kensterberg on Nov 24, 2005 0:07:27 GMT -5
Hey, I had Live and Let Die on 45 too! I loved the b-side ("I Lie Around" wasn't it?) ...
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Post by Ayinger on Nov 24, 2005 1:11:30 GMT -5
Damn that sounds familiar and now that you bring it up, I think I too dug playing whatever was on the flip of that! In fact, it was a habit that I later got into bigtime, esp. when I dj'd in college on the radio and found that there was a ton of unreleased material on the 2nd side of the 45's.
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Post by melon1 on Nov 24, 2005 23:33:45 GMT -5
I revisited Wish You Were Here today. First time I've heard it in quite some time. It's almost as if it's been a missing ingredient as of late. Only Floyd can make an album this good.
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