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Stellar B-Sides

Agree about The Supremes B-Sides!
-Ask Any Girl (Baby Love)
-Everything Is Good About You (My World Is Empty W/O You)
-Put Yourself In My Place (You Can't Hurry Love)
-He's All I Got (Itching)
lots more too....

I mentioned "Rubberneckin'" on the other thread, forgetting that was a B-Side

-Summer Wine - By Nancy and Lee = INCREDIBLE!!!!
-Boys - The Shirelles (Before the Beatles got to this one)
-Don't Ya Hear My Calling To You - 5th Dimension (Flip of Aquarius)

Here's some interesting reading-
http://forgottenhits.com/your_top_200_favorite_forgotten_b-sides
 
billyg said:
Link Wray
The Swag (Flip of "Rumble".. also the theme to John Water's "Pink Flamingos")

Shirelles
Look A Here Baby (Flip of "Dedicated To The One I Love")
Boys (Flip of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and later covered by The Beatles)
Til My Baby Comes Home (Flip of "Que Sera Sera")

Four Tops
Wonderful Baby (flip of "If I Were A Carpenter")

Supremes
Ask Any Girl (flip of "Baby Love")
He's All I Got (flip of "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart")

Four Seasons
Marlena (flip of "Candy Girl")
Betrayed (flip of "Toy Soldier")
Little Angel (flip of "Big Man In Town")
Huggin' My Pillow (Flip of "I Got You Under My Skin")
Raven (flip of "Watch The Flowers Grow")

? And The Mysterians
Midnight Hour (Flip of "96 Tears")

Bryan Hyland
I Can Hear The Rain (flip of "The Joker Went Wild")

Tommy James & The Shondells
Baby Baby (I Cant Take It No More) (flip of "I Like The Way")
One Two Three And I Fell (flip of "Mony Mony")

Flying Machine
Maybe We've Been Loving Too Long (flip of "Smile a Little Smile") ;D

David Cassidy
All I Want To Do Is Touch You (flip of "Cherish" and a much better song! Still not on CD)

The Sweet
Restless (flip of "Ballroom Blitz")
Heartbreak Today (flip of "Fever Of Love")
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You, my friend, just listed my record collection :)
 
More favorite flips

Jan & Dean
She's My Summer Girl (flip of "Surf City")
My Mighty GTO (flip of "Little Old Lady From Pasadena")
Folk City (flip of "A Beginning from a End")

The Association
Don't Blame It On Me (flip of "Cherish")
We Love Us (flip of "Everything That Touches You")

Mamas and The Papas
Even If I Could (flip of "I Saw Her Again")
Strange Young Girls (flip of "For The Love Of Ivy")

Bobby Sherman
Spend Some Time Lovin' Me (flip of "Julie Do You Love Me")

ABBA (though some of these became hits in other countries)
Dance (While The Music Goes On) (flip of "Honey Honey" - huge Spector-ish production)
Bang-A-Boomerang (Flip of "I Do I Do I Do etc")
That's Me (flip of "Dancing Queen")
Cassandra (flip of "The Day Before You Came")
Should I Laugh Or Cry (flip of "When all is Said and Done")

...and a bunch more when I dig through my 45 collection..

PS: Nice list and pics of Dave The Rave!
 
Does anyone remember a singer by the name of Michael Jackson? He had 13 number-one hits and probably 13 different faces. Anyway, one of his number ones was Rock With You in 1980. The B-side was Working Day & Night, which never charted. In Europe and Great Britain, Working Day & Night was released as the B-side of Off The Wall. The song didn't chart in Europe or Great Britain either. It should have. I was surprised to see that Michael had 49 chart hits (including duets) and none of them had a B-side that charted. Golly gee!
 
Hello Mary Lou was the B side of of Rick Nelson's Travelin Man. Two great songs and they charted about a month apart I think. Gene Pitney wrote Hello Mary Lou.
 
Summer Wine - By Nancy and Lee = INCREDIBLE!!!! In my area..this was played as the hit side..I don't think I've ever heard "Rubberneckin"..Summer Wine is such a suggestive song for the time period..
 
johnbasalla said:
The topic of B-sides is beginning to take over another thread. So, here's an official place to post about it.
Which B-sides do you have or know of that are as good or better then their A-sides?

Here's one... "Gotta Get Away" by The Blues Magoos. Just as good as "You Ain't Got Nothin' Yet".
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I always liked the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" better than "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
 
Kent T said:
Do also remember with Boogie Shoes on the A side reissue, it was also sped up noticeably.
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As short as it (already) was, they sped it up??
TheFonz said:
I always liked the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" better than "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
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B-side of the British single was "This Boy." Sounded very much like the Everly Brothers to me.
LARadioRewind said:
Does anyone remember a singer by the name of Michael Jackson? He had 13 number-one hits and probably 13 different faces. Anyway, one of his number ones was Rock With You in 1980. The B-side was Working Day & Night, which never charted. In Europe and Great Britain, Working Day & Night was released as the B-side of Off The Wall. The song didn't chart in Europe or Great Britain either. It should have. I was surprised to see that Michael had 49 chart hits (including duets) and none of them had a B-side that charted. Golly gee!
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Didn't MJ have quite a few instrumental versions of his A-sides as B-sides of his hits?
 
Between 1987 and 1991 there were seven Michael Jackson singles that had the instrumental track as the B-side. Black Or White was the last of those. Then came Remember The Time...and the B-side was a remix of Black Or White. Pretty chintzy! In 1983 I bought the single of Billie Jean. The single as released on Epic 03509 had Can't Get Outta The Rain on the B-side. The single I bought (Epic ENR-03575) came in a sleeve that said "One-sided single. Get the hit! Special low price." The B-side had a weird textured pattern and a label that said "One-sided single. Do not play this side." Pretty chintzy!
 
I have a few of the Columbia/Epic one-sided singles including "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson and two by Billy Joel, "Allentown" and "Pressure". This was an attemp by the company to increase single sales which were dipping at the time. The thought was that they were getting too expensive, and pressing the one-sided discs on thin, cheap styrene along with saving some production costs by not pressing music on the B-side would generate an upturn in single sales. I bought them thinking that they might become collector's items some day.
 
BUDDAH B-SIDES!! I started collecting Buddah label records because of the strange things to be found on the B-sides of discs from producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz. We'll generally skip the multitude of B-sides that play backwards and move on to the really good stuff.
"REFLECTIONS FROM THE LOOKING GLASS", the b-side of "Simon Says" by 1910 Fruitgum Company. This hot psychedelic beauty is far better then the kiddie-bubblegum A-side. It's dark and mysterious. A real gem.

"NO HELP FROM ME", The B-side of "Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers. According to the Green Tambourine album jacket, the group used to be "The Cincinnati Underground. The group wrote "No Help From Me". It's upbeat, harder-edged Rock. It did not appear on either of the two Lemon Pipers albums I have. I like both sides equally. Like "Reflections...", it's a real gem.

"SHE'S NOT COMIN' HOME", the B-side of "Down At Lulu's" by The Ohio Express. Unfortunately "...Lulu" wasn't a Lulu on the charts. Still this B-side is a sad mood, Soft Rock triumph. It has a tasteful piano part. I like both sides equally.


"MRS. GREEN", the B-side of non-hit "Down In Tennessee" by The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus. There are at least two examples of the producers composing Pop tunes (with D. Taxin) that incorporate and revolve around Classical music stylings. This is one of them. It is superb! It's about a school kid in love with a married woman ... "I know you will give me the choice to show you I'm more then a boy. Mrs. Green, ahhh Mrs. Green". Late in the song he sings about "A moment of bliss".
 
LARadioRewind said:
Between 1987 and 1991 there were seven Michael Jackson singles that had the instrumental track as the B-side. Black Or White was the last of those. Then came Remember The Time...and the B-side was a remix of Black Or White. Pretty chintzy! In 1983 I bought the single of Billie Jean. The single as released on Epic 03509 had Can't Get Outta The Rain on the B-side. The single I bought (Epic ENR-03575) came in a sleeve that said "One-sided single. Get the hit! Special low price." The B-side had a weird textured pattern and a label that said "One-sided single. Do not play this side." Pretty chintzy!
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The 12" single of "Billie Jean" had the instrumental of the 12" A-side on its b-side. By the time you get to the end of the instrumental version, you can barely tell that it's the instrumental version, since the background singers (at least one of whom is probably Michael himself!) can still be heard singing the chorus.

Didn't MJ use the same song as the b-side of several of his singles? I'm thinking that he did, although I don't have any such.
 
johnbasalla said:
I have a few of the Columbia/Epic one-sided singles including "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson and two by Billy Joel, "Allentown" and "Pressure". This was an attemp by the company to increase single sales which were dipping at the time. The thought was that they were getting too expensive, and pressing the one-sided discs on thin, cheap styrene along with saving some production costs by not pressing music on the B-side would generate an upturn in single sales. I bought them thinking that they might become collector's items some day.
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"Elvis Presley Blvd." is a cool b-side for "Allentown," for those of you (like me) with Memphis connections, although I don't think that I ever heard it played on Memphis radio. :'(

I seem to recall that the reasoning behind the one-sided singles was to bring the cost of a 45 back below a dollar. Kids and their limited allowances you know, and they never listened to the b-side anyway.
johnbasalla said:
BUDDAH B-SIDES!!
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Recently picked up an old 45 of Andrea True Connection "More More More" for the b-side, which was actually called "More More More, part 2" or something like that, but was actually a standalone dance mix of the song. Pretty cool! 8)
 
Bruce Springsteen b-sides:
  • "Held Up Without a Gun" ("Hungry Heart")
  • "Be True" ("Fade Away")
  • "Pink Cadillac" ("Dancing in the Dark")
  • "Shut Out the Light" ("Born in the USA")
  • "Johnny Bye Bye" ("I'm on Fire")
  • "Stand On It" ("Glory Days")
  • "Janey, Don't You Lose Heart" ("I'm Goin' Down")
  • "Lucky Man" ("Brilliant Disguise")
  • "Two For the Road" ("Tunnel of Love")
Most of these b-sides never (originally) appeared on any albums, although many of them were later issued on a CD entitled Tracks

I was disappointed that the 12" single of "Dancing in the Dark" did not also contain "Pink Cadillac." Had to buy the 45 to get that one. Also disappointed that it never charted despite receiving some airplay back then. ("Pink Cadillac" didn't chart until it appeared in a cover version by Natalie Cole.)
 
More interesting b-sides of note:

  • BeeGees, "Edge of the Universe" ("Nights on Broadway"), eventually became a minor A-side hit of its own in a live version
  • Alan Parsons Project, "Don't Let It Show" ("Don't Answer Me") may be the first time that a track that made the cut for a compilation album (Best of Alan Parsons Project) later became a b-side itself.
  • John Cougar Mellencamp (as he was known at the time), "Pink Houses" acoustic version ("Authority Song") may have been the first "unplugged" b-side.
 
Mister firepoint, several of Michael Jackson's 12-inch singles had remixes on the B-side. Three examples: The 12-inch of Jam had five versions, the 12-inch of Blood On The Dance Floor had four versions, and in 1995 They Don't Care About Us came out on two 12-inch singles with ten versions. But Jackson's 45s never had remixes on the B-side. That doesn't mean that record buyers got their money's worth: Take Me Back was the B-side of two different singles, and both Get On The Floor and Can't Get Outta The Rain were B-sides of three different singles. Pretty chintzy!

Several Salt-N-Pepa singles had a B-side that was a remix of the A-side. Their first hit, Push It (Next Plateau 315) had the same song, same version, on both sides. Pretty chintzy!
 
LARadioRewind said:
The single I bought (Epic ENR-03575) came in a sleeve that said "One-sided single. Get the hit! Special low price." The B-side had a weird textured pattern and a label that said "One-sided single. Do not play this side." Pretty chintzy!
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I liked instrumental b-sides, like Ray Parker Jr's Ghostbusters or Buckner & Garcia's Pac Man Fever. It made for fun parodies or background music for commercials.

I have Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing as a one sided single from 1982. I remember they cost around 40-50 cents. I liked the idea, but I didn't like that CBS didn't punch out the center hole. I bet that was a big reason why they didn't sell well.
 
I always loved Run Bobby Run,, on the flip side of You Don't Own Me from January, 1964 by the great Lesley Gore
 
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