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humbleinspirit -> Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 5:54:28 PM)

I did all the way up to 1981. Then I would play them if the artist was either exceptionally good or if somehow the song's B-side made it onto the radio as well.

Here were some of my favorites:


  • How Deep Is Your Love/You Can't Keep A Good Man Down-Bee Gees
  • You Light Up My Life-Hasta Manana-Debby Boone
  • Runaway/Hot Water-Jefferson Starship
  • Y.M.C.A./The Women-Village People
  • Pop Muzak/M Factor-M
  • I Can't Tell You Why/The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks-Eagles



And some from the 1980's:



  • Freeze Frame/Flamethrower-The J. Geils Band
  • I Drink Alone/Willie and the Handjive-George Theorogood and the Deleware Destroyers
  • Behind The Wall of Sleep/Blood and Roses-The Smithereens
  • Once In A Lifetime/This Must Be The Place (Niave Medley)-Talking Heads


Now thats just to name a few, I am sure I will think of many more!



Rufas2000 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 6:56:57 PM)

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Behind The Wall of Sleep/Blood and Roses-The Smithereens


Which one was the b side? Both great songs.

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How Deep Is Your Love/You Can't Keep A Good Man Down-Bee Gees


I got the "oldie" version of "How Deep is Your Love" that had "Stayin Alive" on the B side. So yes, I listened to that B side. [:D]

Also had an oldie 45 of Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road / Bennie and the Jets. Also, The Beatles' Hey Jude / Get Back.

I used to get a 45 every week. I guess it was part of my allowance.

Here's one I remember: "Hard Times" from Kiss. Can anyone name the song that was on the A side (hint late 70s, if I said the year or album it would be too easy, that in itself should be a hint).

I can't think of too many B sides I played offhand. If I do I'll post them.



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 7:11:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Rufas2000

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Behind The Wall of Sleep/Blood and Roses-The Smithereens


Which one was the b side? Both great songs.



Blood and Roses was the B-side.

I thought of a couple more since my last post:


  • When Doves Cry/17 Days-Prince and the Revolution (but I believe that the B-side was only credited as Prince and the B-side also had a super long subtitle also.
  • I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/Spanish Eyes/Deep In The Heart (double 33 1/3 RPM B-side)(but I only liked Spanish Eyes Though.)
  • Where The Streets Have No Name/Silver and Gold/The Sweetest Thing (double 33 1/3 RPM B-side)



mapachito13 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 8:58:26 PM)

What's a 45? I'm too young to remember those things! [;)]

I remember playing my dad's 78's. Those big thick heavy things that only had room for one song on a 12" disc.

I tended to buy albums rather than 45's. Of course they used to just cost a few bucks in a far distant age.



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 9:03:08 PM)

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I remember playing my dad's 78's. Those big thick heavy things that only had room for one song on a 12" disc.


Now thats because they were spun at 78 RPM!

I remember why pay $1.67 for the single when I could get the whole album for just $5.99 (on sale) instead? Ironically you can get songs on Itunes for only $.99 cents instead.



mapachito13 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 9:20:27 PM)

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ORIGINAL: humbleinspirit

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I remember playing my dad's 78's. Those big thick heavy things that only had room for one song on a 12" disc.


Now thats because they were spun at 78 RPM!

I remember why pay $1.67 for the single when I could get the whole album for just $5.99 (on sale) instead? Ironically you can get songs on Itunes for only $.99 cents instead.


But the B-sides stuff you usually couln't get on the album. You had to wait 20 more years for their box set![:D]

I remember going into Woolworth's and seeing the singles on sale for $0.75 each or 3 for $ 1.50. Remember the compilation double albums from K-Tel?

The best deal I got this year for a new CD was the Best Buy version (4 extra songs) of Alter Bridge's "Blackbird" for $ 9.97. Not bad for over an hour of music. Family Christian stores usually has at least one CD on sale
for $5 for members and membership is free! I could be a shill for that place!



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 9:24:37 PM)

I had a double K-tel albums for both Disco Rocket and The Hit List As well.

Now some stuff was non-LP b-sides, and others were from the albums too, but just weren't considered hit-ready at all. Then later on they would re-release some as a-sides instead, go figure!

Ok, here are a few more:


  • Dancing In The Dark/Pink Cadallac-Bruce Springsteen
  • My Hometown/Santa Claus Is Coming To Town-Bruce Springsteen
  • Find A Way/Angels-Amy Grant
  • Perfect World/You Will Go Free-Tonio K.



mapachito13 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 9:37:27 PM)

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ORIGINAL: humbleinspirit

I had a double K-tel albums for both Disco Rocket and The Hit List As well.


Had two "Goofy Greats" had songs like Ahab the A-rab (probably not PC today), Snoopy and the Red Baron, Surfin' Bird, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and others I can't recall. The other was the top 40 rock-disco compilation which I can't remember the name of it.


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Now some stuff was non-LP b-sides, and others were from the albums too, but just weren't considered hit-ready at all. Then later on they would re-release some as a-sides instead, go figure!


I guess they were figuring out how to pump our wallets for our money back then too![sm=dollars.gif]Cha-Ching!![sm=dollars.gif]



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 9:48:18 PM)

I think that the most famous one more recently (within the past 10 years) was the reissue of The Sweetest Thing by U2. I read just today that they actually re-recorded it instead. Oh well, I guess I will have to give the original another spin whenever I get a new turntable instead.

And on the K-tel "Goofy Greats", Ronco put out their own version called "Funny Bone Favorites" as well.



mapachito13 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 9:59:11 PM)

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ORIGINAL: humbleinspirit

And on the K-tel "Goofy Greats", Ronco put out their own version called "Funny Bone Favorites" as well.


That's not surprising Phillip Kives (Mr. K-Tel) and Ron Popeil (Mr. Ronco) have a business relationship going back to the early 70's.



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/22/2008 10:19:46 PM)

Interesting! I didn't know that Ron Popeil was Ronco!



mapachito13 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/23/2008 8:27:10 AM)

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ORIGINAL: humbleinspirit

Interesting! I didn't know that Ron Popeil was Ronco!


I imagine that's where he came up with the company name, Ronco, like Ron Co.



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/26/2008 3:45:07 PM)

Thanks Mapachito13, and yes, that would make sense!

Ok, here are a few more that I thought of since my last posting:


  • Disco Inferno/Thats Where The Happy People Go-The Trammps (this was the actual original issue)

  • Rock Me Amadeus (An American Edit)/(Canadian Version)-Falco (The so-called Canadian version had the history lesson only on it instead.)

  • 99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons-Nena (the German version was actually considered the hit A-side of the record, even if some cities played the B-side instead.)



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/26/2008 7:56:52 PM)

More:


  • Babe/I'm ok-Styx
  • We're Not Gonna Take It/You Can't Stop Rock & Roll-Twisted Sister
  • Rock This Town/You Can't Hurry Love-Stray Cats



mapachito13 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 12:47:30 AM)

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ORIGINAL: humbleinspirit

More:


  • Babe/I'm ok-Styx
  • We're Not Gonna Take It/You Can't Stop Rock & Roll-Twisted Sister
  • Rock This Town/You Can't Hurry Love-Stray Cats


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Love pre-Mr. Roboto Styx "Pieces of Eight"my fav from them. (Come Sail away still my favorite song though) Twisted Sister was way cool and Brian Setzer still plays a mean guitar!



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 12:53:28 AM)

And oh, that reminds me of another one also:


  • Fooling Yourself/The Grand Illusion-Styx



mapachito13 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 1:06:25 AM)

Keep 'em coming humbleinsprit. You're giving me more ideas for my Napster playlist!



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 1:58:51 AM)

Ok, here are even more that I thought of, not all are of the Rock & Roll genre though.

the 80s:


  • Calling All Girls/Putting Out Fire-Queen
  • Lets Dance”/Cat People (Putting Out Fire)-David Bowie
  • The Power of Love/Bad is Bad-Huey Lewis and the News
  • Rock & Roll Girls/Centerfield-John Fogerty (2 sided hit single) released as the 2nd and 3rd single.


the 70s:


  • We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You-Queen (yes, I know that it is played in the opposite sequence, but technically it was a 2-sided single and We Are The Champions was the A side.

  • I Feel Love/Can't We Just Sit Down-Donna Summer



the 60s


  • You Didn't Have To Be So Nice/My Gal-Lovin' Spoonful
  • Words/Sinking Ships-Bee Gees



Rufas2000 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 2:28:45 AM)

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Love pre-Mr. Roboto Styx "Pieces of Eight"my fav from them.


Indeed, although I have to give the slight edge to The Grand Illusion. IMHO that and Pieces of Eight are their high points. The one thing on "Pieces of Eight" is that you could tell they discovered that they had young teenage fans and kind of tailored the music a little bit for them. Not so much so that they lost the adult crowd, it was still great. You'll note the band refers to themselves by first name only on the credits (example: Dennis: Vocals, Keyboards, Tommy: Guitar, Vocals etc.) as opposed to the more traditional full name. They kinda went hog wild with the theatrics (The Grand Illusion had a bit of that but "Pieces of Eight" went full bore with many pleasing results and some a bit over the top). I don't think its a bad thing but its something I picked up right away. The overall concept of "money ain't the answer" certainly is not kids stuff.

Speaking of "Pieces of Eight" (and to blow a hole in my teenybopper theory) am I the only one that thinks "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" is about becoming a male prostitute? I would explain the symbolism I'm thinking but would rather not violate TOS.

I wasn't a fan of "Cornerstone", liked "Paradise Theater" then after that meh.

Funny story: I heard "The Best of Times" years before I heard "Rockin' The Paradise". Imagine my surprise when "...Paradise" kicked it after having nearly the same intro as the "The Best of Times".

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Fooling Yourself/The Grand Illusion-Styx


Another good double dip. I'm thinking not intentional. Seems "The Grand Illusion" got more airplay on rock radio than "Fooling Yourself".

Ah, Styx, good stuff.



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 2:57:57 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Rufas2000

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Love pre-Mr. Roboto Styx "Pieces of Eight"my fav from them.


Indeed, although I have to give the slight edge to The Grand Illusion. IMHO that and Pieces of Eight are their high points. The one thing on "Pieces of Eight" is that you could tell they discovered that they had young teenage fans and kind of tailored the music a little bit for them. Not so much so that they lost the adult crowd, it was still great. You'll note the band refers to themselves by first name only on the credits (example: Dennis: Vocals, Keyboards, Tommy: Guitar, Vocals etc.) as opposed to the more traditional full name. They kinda went hog wild with the theatrics (The Grand Illusion had a bit of that but "Pieces of Eight" went full bore with many pleasing results and some a bit over the top). I don't think its a bad thing but its something I picked up right away. The overall concept of "money ain't the answer" certainly is not kids stuff.

Speaking of "Pieces of Eight" (and to blow a hole in my teenybopper theory) am I the only one that thinks "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" is about becoming a male prostitute? I would explain the symbolism I'm thinking but would rather not violate TOS.

I wasn't a fan of "Cornerstone", liked "Paradise Theater" then after that meh.

Funny story: I heard "The Best of Times" years before I heard "Rockin' The Paradise". Imagine my surprise when "...Paradise" kicked it after having nearly the same intro as the "The Best of Times".

quote:

Fooling Yourself/The Grand Illusion-Styx


Another good double dip. I'm thinking not intentional. Seems "The Grand Illusion" got more airplay on rock radio than "Fooling Yourself".

Ah, Styx, good stuff.


Its possible, however I was very young when it came out and I was only listening to Top 40 radio at the time. Oh btw, I thought that the B-side to Mr. Roboto was Snowblind instead?

Ok, I remembered 2 more here:

  • Always A Woman/Vienna-Billy Joel
  • Make Me Smile/Color My World-Chicago
  • We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper-The Beatles



rlj -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 7:51:40 PM)

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I think that the most famous one more recently (within the past 10 years) was the reissue of The Sweetest Thing by U2. I read just today that they actually re-recorded it instead. Oh well, I guess I will have to give the original another spin whenever I get a new turntable instead.


I never bought the 2 disc version of U2's greatest hits 1980-1990 because I had all of the songs that mattered back in the day. When they did the singles for the Joshua Tree songs they released each song with 2 B-sides on the 12" format. Until they release a set with Celebration I will continue to ignore any of their collections out of spite. :P

I used to always listen to B Sides but all of the good ones I can think of were mentioned except the "Immigrant's Song" which had "Hey Hey What Can I Do?" Which I had a cassingle of. :D It was originally released that way. I really liked "That's the Way" the flip side of Karma Chameleon because it was mostly a piano, Boy George and Helen Terry singing a soulful song that was pretty cool. "Gotta Boogie" by Wierd Al that was the flip side of "Another One Rides the Bus". (Gotta Boogie on my finger and I can't shake it off...)



humbleinspirit -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 7:53:38 PM)

The only thing with B-side of the TK Records release of Another Rides The Bus was that it wasn't all that good. He did a much better version on his self-titled Debut Album instead.



markb77 -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 10:32:20 PM)

The Beatles - She's A Woman/I Feel Fine
The Monkees - Valleri/Tapocia Tundra
Three Dog Night - Black & White/Writing's On The Wall

These were my favorite 45's when my musical tastes were forming.

Elton John was the main artist for whom I felt I had to pick up all the 45s - because he made a regular practice of using non-album tracks as the B-sides. Most artists I liked during my singles buying days just used another track off the most recent album for a B-side. Not Elton.



1mlasp -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/27/2008 11:31:31 PM)

Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" had an incredibly bad song on the B side called "He'll Never Know," which was about a woman's secret affair. We would slow the record down so it sounded like a man (even more than Cher does naturally) singing these awful lyrics:

He'll never know
of that night long ago
No, He'll never know
his son's only mine.....[sm=icon_smile_sing.gif]

Great fun! And best of all, we found the record in a dumpster, so the price was right!



rlj -> RE: Did You Used To Play the B-sides of 45's When Growing Up? (7/28/2008 8:32:56 AM)

Another awesome U2 B-Side that I don't think was mentioned is "Halleluja Here She Comes" the flip side of "Desire". I didn't have that one though.

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The only thing with B-side of the TK Records release of Another Rides The Bus was that it wasn't all that good. He did a much better version on his self-titled Debut Album instead.


I didn't know there was more than one version. For that single my dad was a bus driver and was in a store and seen like 10 copies of it and bought them all for his co-workers and such. Is it really worth trying to find the redo of it to listen to? hehe



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