Another pair: This beat goes on / Switching to glide. Late 70’s, but I don’t know the artist.
It is too clear, and so it is hard to see.
This Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide was done by the Kings, I think in 1980. Technically, these are two songs that the band merged together, much like Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Alice Cooper’s Second Coming/Ballad Of Dwight Fry/Sun Arise, Aerosmith’s Train Kept A Rollin’/Seasons Of Wither, and Savoy Brown’s I’m Tired/Where Am I. DJs of the era sometimes played the songs separately, fading out before the next song began, though it was easier to just let them play through.
I have Led Zeppelin II on vinyl: Heartbreaker and Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman) are the first two songs on Side 2.
Another case where two separate songs were usually played together due to no gap between them on vinyl: Z Z Top’s Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago.
And the last 3 songs on the first Ramones album, Let’s Dance/I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You/Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World, are also very hard to separate on vinyl, though I’ve never heard these fine selections played on the radio.
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The Doors’ “People Are Strange” is usually followed back-to-back with “Love Me Two Times”, which was on the same album but the two songs weren’t contiguous.
Pink Floyd’s “Breathe” is usually followed by “On the Run” (the synth piece) which in turn usually leads into “Time”.
Pat Benatar recorded a song called “Suffer the Little Children” which goes right into “Hell is for Children”, but a different recording of “Hell” is more often played on the radio.
Yes had a short trippy song on the same album as “Roundabout” called “We Have Heaven” which segues into “South Side of the Sky”, which makes a wonderful (but underplayed) song combo. On the flip side, there was a long instrumental called “Mood for a Day”, after which came “Heart of the Sunrise”, but on the vinyl album there is no groove between the tracks and the instrumental just leads into the song.
The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (lead track on album of same title) leads straight into “With a Little Help from My Friends” and is usually played that way.
The Yes song “All Good People” sounds as if it is two songs that are always played back to back, but on the album or CD it is actually listed as a single song.
Pink Floyd’s album Wish You Were Here contains a long multi-part piece called “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”; on side one, it segues into “Welcome to the Machine” and, once again, is usually played that way (and the rest of “Shine On”, which continues on side two, is usually NOT played).
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Pink floyd seems to be about the biggest culprit for this - no one has mentioned it yet but I don’t think I have ever once heard Another Brick in the Wall part 2 played without Happiest days of our Lives before it.
As noted above, both songs were on the 1977 album “News of the World.” “We Will Rock You” was track one, followed by track #2, “We are the Champions.” Both songs were released in 1977 as opposite sides of a single, with “Champions” as the A-side.
I guess that their association on both the album and the single is what helped to forge their melding in the public consciousness.
Has anybody noticed that none of the bands heavily mentioned on this thread have been listened to by anyone except stoned teenagers on their headphones since about 1981?
If that was true, then I doubt there’d be 3 or 4 classic rock stations in every radio market.
And for the record, I listen to this music and I’m not a stoned teenager. I’m 21.
“Has anybody noticed that none of the bands heavily mentioned on this thread have been listened to by anyone except stoned teenagers on their headphones since about 1981?”
Maybe that’s because CDs started catching on in the early 1980s. Prior to then, if two songs were too close together on vinyl, the dj had to be really quick to end the first one. Most times, it was easier to just let them play through. (Hmmm, maybe the dj’s were stoned?) However, CDs can be programmed to play just one track at a time.
More recently, on the Lee Harvey Oswald CD Blastronaut, The Greatest Man Who Ever Walked The Face Of The Earth blends into the next song, Surrender Earthlings. On The Donnas CD Get Skintight, Hyperactive starts immediately after Skintight. On vinyl, they’d likely be combined, if played on the radio. But on CD, they’ll stay separate.
I didn’t think many radio stations ever played LPs. I thought they played singles. Or is this where the phrase “Album oriented rock” comes from?
I can tell you from my old radio days that even Top 40 stations often played album cuts for several different reasons –
The record company had changed the album track when they released it as a single, and the music director liked the album track better;
The radio station would play short (the single)or long the album track)versions as their timing needs dictated;
The song hadn’t been released as a single yet (IIRC, Elton John’s version of “Pinball Wizard” was NEVER released as a single, but still got a lot of Top 40 airplay.)
The DJ really had to go to the bathroom (or had a girl in there with him) and let the album play through for as many songs as it took.
I didn’t bring girls to the station, but I did experience all the others.
On a quick side note, “We Will Rock You” is only about a minute and a half long, and presumably it only made sense to play it as well.
Glad you brought this back, occ, I remember another one: Van Halen’s Eruption/You Really Got Me. There actually is about 2 or 3 seconds of dead air between these songs, but together, they’re less than 4 1/2 minutes long.
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You are correct ! The true title of the song is “Your Move/All Good People”
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Just some useless info. about me. i am 23 years old. I listen to a wide variety of music from the 50s to today’s music, the doors, led zep, oldies, hair bands of the 80s and the alternative rock like Alice in Chains, Live, and even some pop music. By the way, never been drunk or stoned in my life.
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David Lee Roth made ‘just a gigolo’ popular in our time, but if my karaoke memory serves correctly, it’s much much older than that. I looked up some things, and the song is attributed to Leonello Casucci. Also on the Just a Gigolo soundtrack (starring D. Bowie), there is a I Caesar and a J Brammer. As for who originally sang it? I dunno. But I’m pretty sure this song has been around a long time.
my Led Zeppelin II cd has the songs in order
heartbreaker and then living loving maid (she’s just a woman)
maybe you have a rare misprint or something
or a tape with the songs split up on two sides
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