B-Side Wins Again

[sadchild]

Chords
A: "Cross Over The Bridge"
B: "Sh-Boom" #9

The Chords - Cross Over The Bridge / Sh-Boom

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[sadchild]

Nick Lowe
A: "Little Hitler" (uncharted 1978)
B: "Cruel To Be Kind" (#12 on reissue 1979)

Just learned this today!

Nick Lowe - Little Hitler

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[HecticArt]

I never would have known or guessed.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Nick Lowe
A: "Little Hitler" (uncharted 1978)
B: "Cruel To Be Kind" (#12 on reissue 1979)

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Nick Lowe - Little Hitler

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Little Hitler is such a catchy title. Not sure why it failed. Ironic his one-hit almost wasn't (I think he is a OHW).

 

[scotchandcigar]

Saw this at the supermarket today

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[Channel98]

Cabernet has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. I could say it is B-side the point.

 

[HecticArt]

 

[Channel98]

In May 1962, Volt Records, a subsidiary of Stax, released Behave Yourself, an instrumental ballad by Booker T. & The MG's. It was their first single. The song was written by group members Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Lewie Steinberg and Al Jackson Jr. Disc jockeys didn't play it. They played the B-side, another song written by Jones, Cropper, Steinberg and Jackson. In July, Stax re-released the single, this time with Green Onions as the A-side. It reached #3 on the Hot 100 and number one on the R&B chart in September.

 

[HecticArt]

I love that song.

 

[sadchild]

Big Bopper
A: "Little Red Riding Hood" #72
B: "Big Bopper's Wedding" #38

11/08/58 - "Chantilly Lace" peaks at #6
12/01/58 - "Little Red Riding Hood" debuts at #90 as the follow-up single
12/08/58 - "Hood" peaks at #72, its b-side "Big Bopper's Wedding" debuts at #64
12/15/58 - "Hood" drops 21 spots, "Wedding" climbs 20 spots
12/22/58 - "Hood" falls off, "Wedding" breaks into the top 40
12/29/58 - "Hood" re-enters at #84, "Wedding" falls out of the top 40
01/03/58 - "Hood" falls off the Hot 100
01/24/58 - "Lace" and "Wedding" fall off the Hot 100

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

If he didn't get on that plane people would never know his name today.

 

[sadchild]

He'd probably be about as popular as Donnie Brooks, Eddie Hodges, Terry Stafford, The Cheers, The Cyrkle, The Jive Five, The Rooftop Singers and a slew of other two hit wonders (subjective OHWs).

 

[sadchild]

Not on the pop chart, but here's a B-side that outperformed its A-side

Stezo
[RAP CHART]
A: "To The Max" uncharted
B: "It's My Turn" #18

 

[sadchild]

Silhouettes
A: "I Am So Lonely" uncharted
B: "Get A Job" #1

The Silhouettes were formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1956, at first using the name The Thunderbirds. Their classic hit "Get a Job" – originally the B-side to "I Am Lonely" – was issued by their manager, Kae Williams, on his own Junior Records label before being sold to the nationally distributed Ember label in late 1957. It reached number 1 on both the R&B and pop charts in US and the group performed it on television's American Bandstand. The song sold more than one million copies and was awarded a gold record.

 

[Channel98]

The Mills Brothers had 65 top-40 hits between 1931 and 1968. Thirty-two of those made the top ten and five – Tiger Rag, Dinah (with Bing Crosby), Paper Doll, You Always Hurt The One You Love and The Glow-Worm – went to number one. Their cover version of Get A Job peaked at #21 on the Top 100 in March 1958. I wonder if, as they got older, they asked themselves, "When we recorded this, what were we thinking?"

 

[sadchild]

LeeAnn Rimes
(Originally intended to be) A: "The Light In Your Eyes" uncharted
(Originally intended to be) B: "Blue" #26

"BluuuuuuuuuuUUooUUUOUooUUUuue....."

According to Wikipedia

Rimes re-recorded the song for her debut album, Blue, in 1996 when she was 13. This recording was meant to be the B-side of Rimes' first single, "The Light in Your Eyes", but a ten-second tag of "Blue" on the promo record sent to radio stations drew the attention of DJs, so the A and B-sides were reversed and "Blue" became her first single.

 

[Channel98]

Cliff Nobles & Co. released 13 singles between 1961 and 1973 and had only one top-40 hit. Love Is All Right was written and produced by Jesse James (real name: James Herbert McClelland) and released on February 28, 1968 – but disc jockeys preferred the B-side, The Horse, which was the A-side minus the vocals. It reached #2 in June 1968. James also wrote Boogaloo Down Broadway, a 1967 top-ten hit by The Fantastic Johnny C (Corley).

 

[sadchild]

Let's put an instrumental version on the B-side. What should we name it?

How about "Love Is All Right (Instrumental Version)"?

NO HOW ABOUT "THE HORSE"?!?!

Brilliant.

 

[sadchild]

The Move (then ELO)
A: "California Man"
B: "Do Ya" #93 ... then recorded by ELO and reached #24

"Do Ya" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and originally recorded by his previous band The Move. Written in 1971, it was featured on the B-side of the UK hit "California Man" credited to The Move. In the United States the B-side proved more popular than the A and so the song became the group's only US charting song, reaching number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100.

ELO began to perform "Do Ya" live with Lynne on lead vocals from 1973 to 1975. They recorded it in the studio for inclusion on the 1976 album A New World Record. In a 1978 interview, Bev Bevan stated the reason for the re-recording was that, after ELO had added the song to their live performances, a music journalist asked the band their opinion of "the original version" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia. Bevan said they decided to re-record it as ELO in order to "let everyone know that it's a Jeff Lynne song."

 

[sadchild]

"White Horse" by Laid Back was released as the B-side of their single "Sunshine Reggae" which became a major hit in several European countries. In the US, the A-side was mainly ignored and it was the B-side that became most successful, peaking at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.

It's on this week's VJ for 1984. For the first time, they played an edited version that removes the word 'bitch'.