# 45 RPM Singles. Did you play the B-side? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503 "2005-06-08T20:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/61 "2005-06-10T05:12:35Z")
I once had a recording of “She Belong to Me” by Harry wilcox Jr., written by Robert Zimmerman. My memory is that this was the B side, but I could have b een wrong because I can’t remember what was on the other wide. I dragged this 45 out some years ago to prove that (1) it had a copywrite date of 1962 and (2) the credit was to R. Zimmerman and not Bob Dylan. I don’t know if this counts because R. Zimmerman was not a legend (or maybe he burst on the scene that way; eyewitnesses seem to think so). More legends: At one time I had a45–I think maybe my last 45 ever–of something called “Zig Zag” by George Harrison. I don’t remember what was on the other side but again I somehow think “Zig Zag” was the B side. Sure wish I could find that one. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/62 "2005-06-10T05:33:50Z")
> [@Hilarity N. Suze](#): > > More legends: At one time I had a45–I think maybe my last 45 ever–of something called “Zig Zag” by George Harrison. I don’t remember what was on the other side but again I somehow think “Zig Zag” was the B side. Sure wish I could find that one. “Zig Zag” was the B-side of “When We Was Fab.” ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/63 "2005-06-10T07:13:14Z")
I always loved B sides. Best I ever remember was “The House that Jack Built” which was the flip of “I Say A Little Prayer for You” by Aretha Franklin. Rollicking good tune! mm ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/64 "2005-06-10T07:19:19Z")
Another good one was “The Road To Alaska” which was a Bee-Gees B side (of either “Lonley Days” or “Run to me” IIRC). Great Robin Gibb vocal and a completely out of Bee Gees character hard rock guitar solo. What an awesome, underrated, under credited group they are/were mm ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/65 "2005-06-10T11:05:56Z")
> [@mamboman](#): > > Another good one was “The Road To Alaska” which was a Bee-Gees B side (of either “Lonley Days” or “Run to me” IIRC). “Run to Me” ---
**Author:** ![marky33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@marky33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marky33)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/66 "2005-06-10T15:47:52Z")
For years in interviews Siouxsie (& the Banshees) had said she preferred recording B sides – more scope to experiment and let rip. I’d heard some but had not really taken a great deal of notice until they released a whole box set of them a few months back - “Downside Up”. Listening to every B-side presented as a whole is impressive. Some of the experimentation is a bit self-indulgent, but overall its a very good listen and includes some cracking tunes. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/67 "2005-06-10T16:28:12Z")
:smack: Squeeze - b side of Sunday St. - ‘Maidstone’ Just great. MiM ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/68 "2005-06-10T16:42:10Z")
> [@marky33](#): > > For years in interviews Siouxsie (& the Banshees)… It’s kinda weird how the dominos in my brain just got fell. Mentioning Siouxsie =\> Brings to mind their 2 singles compliations (Once & Twice Upon a Time) =\> The (underrated) Fall’s 2 singles compilations (458489 A-Sides / B-Sides) =\> Probably my fave B-Side of all time: The Fall’s [Cab It Up](http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=lmx70yq2sf2hgygkbnxwim2&r=20.asx) ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/69 "2005-06-10T19:56:15Z")
This is from the liner notes from a boxed set of Flamingo CDs that I have in front of me. It’s my only cite. In early 1966, they re-cut “I Only Have Eyes For You”. It was the flip, however, that got the action: “The Boogaloo Party,” a catchy dance tune sung mostly in unison, became their first R&B charter in six years (#22, #93 Pop). Trivia question: Out of all the fantastic Flamingos recordings ever made, which is the only single ever to make the British charts? Right! “The Boogaloo Party” (#26, and it took three and a half years to get there, charting in June of 1969). Also, I read the following: I Only Have Eyes For You / Goodnight Sweetheart…End 1046 4/59 I Only Have Eyes For You / At The Prom…End 1046 5/59 I Only Have Eyes For You/Love Walked In…End 1046 12/64 Boogaloo Party / I Only Have Eyes For You…Phlps 40347 8/66 Boogaloo Party being the A side, is how it is listed. Thus, my original post. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/70 "2005-06-10T21:19:51Z")
NOW you’re givin’ us the info, **ltfire**. Cool, but dammit!: From what you posted, the '59 release of _I Only Have Eyes For You_ could have one of two B sides. You’re gonna make me dig through those boxes and pull out a scratched-up 45 just to satiffy my curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/71 "2005-06-10T23:28:56Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > NOW you’re givin’ us the info, **ltfire**. Cool, but dammit!: From what you posted, the '59 release of _I Only Have Eyes For You_ could have one of two B sides. You’re gonna make me dig through those boxes and pull out a scratched-up 45 just to satiffy my curiosity. Heres a web site that lists the B side as “Good Night Sweetheart”. I’ve filled in a lot of holes in my collection here. [http://www.oldies.com/search/index.cfm](http://www.oldies.com/search/index.cfm) The copy I have on my juke box…believe it or not, just to prove the truth…has “At The Prom” as a B side. I didnt get it at any web site, I picked it up way back when because it has an old girl friends name on it , with a heart. Must have gotten layed to it but I’m foggy on the details. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/72 "2005-06-11T00:06:19Z")
> [@ltfire](#): > > I didnt get it at any web site, I picked it up way back when because it has an old girl friends name on it , with a heart. Must have gotten layed to it but **I’m foggy on the details.** (bolding mine) I envy you the fog. I ain’t a bit foggy about the girl I associate with _I Only Have Eyes For You_. I blew that deal, just to show her how hard-headed I could be. In my case, foggy would be better. Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/73 "2005-06-11T02:25:08Z")
Yes, I played the “B” side on every one I bought (for 89c to $1.00), often just once, but sometimes the DJ’s would start playing the B sides enough so that they also became popular. From box 1 of my half vast collection, I offer the following ones of which the B sides gained pop status as well as the A sides. Sorry if the younger ones of you do not recognize the titles or even most of the artists, but the other fogies might get some pleasant memories. Mostly chronological (by purchase date-mid-'50’s). I also have one of those RCA Victor changers, about 10" x 8" x 6" high, plus the fat spindle that held a dozen 45’s. It has a Ding Dong School promo label but it died years ago. I know, TMI. Dragnet/Dancing in the Dark – Ray Anthony Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell/Baubles, Bangles and Beads – Georgia Gibbs Ricochet/Too Young to Tango – Teresa Brewer You’ll Never Walk Alone/I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You – Roy Hamilton Ebb Tide/If I Could Make You Mine – Vic Damone Crazy Mixed-Up Song/What Shall We Do With a Lonesome Lover – Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healey Secret Love/The Deadwood Stage – Doris Day Make Love to Me/Adi-Adios Amigo – Jo Stafford Cross Over the Bridge/My Restless Lover – Patti Page A Girl, A Girl/Anema E Core – Eddie Fisher The Man Upstairs/If You Love Me – Kay Starr The Man with the Banjo/Man, Man Is For the Woman Made – The Ames Brothers Isle of Capri/Love I You – The Capris Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea/I Hear it Everywhere – The Four Lads (the “B” side wasn’t that popular but I just had to tell you kids about the “A” title) I Need You Now/Heaven Was Never Like This – Eddie Fisher (Liz Taylor’s 3rd? husband; Carrie’s dad) The Crazy Otto/Humoresque – Johnny Maddox Dance with Me, Henry!/Ballin’ the Jack – Georgia Gibbs Love Me or Leave Me/Something’s Gotta Give – Sammy Davis, Jr. Unchained Melody/From Here to Eternity – Roy Hamilton No, Not Much/I’ll Never Know – The Four Lads Hot Diggity/Juke Box Baby – Perry Como The Magic Touch – Winner Take All – The Platters All Shook Up/That’s When Your Heartache Begins – Elvis Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel – Elvis Love me Tender/Any Way You Want Me – Elvis Carmen’s Boogie/A Story Untold – The Crew-Cuts I’m So Glad/Se De Boom Run Dun – Mickey and Sylvia ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/74 "2005-06-11T02:35:18Z")
By the way, **Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea** made it onto “The Very Best of The Four Lads-Moments To Remember” cd as track #5 (of 21) Taragon Records TARCD-1079 in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/75 "2005-06-11T02:39:18Z")
Speaking of Elvis, I discovered his version of “Wooden Heart” on the flipside of “Puppet on a String”. Tom Petty (a big Elvis fan) did a decent cover for his box set. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/76 "2005-06-11T14:48:10Z")
the flip side of “light my fire” by the doors is “the crystal ship” a very creepy drug related song that sticks in your memory. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/77 "2005-06-11T15:30:21Z")
Wow, it’s nice to see a bunch of people into B-sides! Speaking of Elvis, a good number of his B-sides are really fine performances, even if they didn’t make any charts. “There Goes My Everything” was the A-side, but on the flip was “I Really Don’t Want To Know”, which might be my favorite Elvis record. Steppenwolf had a single called “Ride With Me” that had a non-LP B-side, “For Madmen Only”. It’s mainly an epic guitar noise freakout, but still otherwise unreleased. The B-side of “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper is unique to the 45. Titled “Gutter Cat,” it’s actually a skillful edit of two of the LP tracks, with an extra overdub of synthesizer lead. On the other side of “Sylvia’s Mother” by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, is perhaps their greatest druggie song, “Makin’ It Natural” - in which they get to imitate John Denver at the end. Hey, it was current humor at the time! B-side of “Crocodile Rock” by Elton John is “Elderberry Wine”, which could have been an A-side if it wasn’t about getting drunk. Also, the B-side of “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” has _two_ songs, “Jack Rabbit” and “Whenever You’re Ready (We’ll Go Steady Again” that were unavailable for years and years. Now they’re bonus tracks. The B-side of “We’re An American Band” by Grand Funk got more jukebox play in my area than the A-side. “Creepin’” is an 8:00-plus album track, of which they could only fit about 6 1/2 minutes on the single. We liked it anyway! B-side of “Higher Ground” by Stevie Wonder is an amazing song called “Too High”. We used to hear all these songs before we had enough money to buy the albums. Then, eventually we could afford to do that, and discovered that lots of the B-sides were not on them. And that’s why I’m still collecting records! ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/78 "2005-06-11T20:44:20Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > A slight hijack, to say: I’ve been a Beatles fan since they were on Ed Sullivan, and I’ve been listening to Oldies/Classic Rock format stations forever…and I have NEVER heard “The Inner Light”. Not once. Odd, because I think it’s one of the best songs the Beatles recorded - and still a total obscurity. It’s certainly on the _Rarities_ LP on the Capitol label which you should be able to track down in a decent sized record store, and I should think it would have to be out on CD by now, on one of the _Anthology_ releases if nowhere else. I’m surprised so many people are panning B-sides; in the 50s & especially 60s the songs tended to be a whole lot more inetresting & usually better, if not big hits or as familiar. I believe Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man” is the flip of “Bo Diddley.” Wasn’t “Wipeout” the B-side of “Surfer Joe”? Also B-sides: Stone Free - Jimi Hendrix Experience Big Black Smoke - The Kinks I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better - Byrds The Warmth Of The Sun - Beach Boys Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly The list could go on and on… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/79 "2005-06-11T21:42:52Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > Odd, because I think it’s one of the best songs the Beatles recorded - and still a total obscurity. It’s certainly on the _Rarities_ LP on the Capitol label which you should be able to track down in a decent sized record store, and I should think it would have to be out on CD by now, on one of the _Anthology_ releases if nowhere else. It (“The Inner Light”) is on the second _Past Masters_ volume. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503/80 "2005-06-11T22:05:31Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > Wasn’t “Wipeout” the B-side of “Surfer Joe”? Yes. It was on Dot 16479. According to the Billboard book, there were two previous issues which are worth quite a bit of money (well, as of 1996 when the book was written): DFS 11 - $2000 [Princess 50 - $150](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=4736936356&rd=1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-rpm-singles-did-you-play-the-b-side/307503.md?page=5)