Album tracks that should have been singles

"Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" would make for a nice double a-side single off the White Album, considering it didn't have any

 

I've always felt that "Don't Fall In Love With Me" from the Bee Gees 1981 Living Eyes album should have been a single:

 

Desperado, instead, the Eagles chose Outlaw Man b/w Certain Kind of Fool.

 

LA Woman

 

EMI Australia agreed with you.

 

I find this catchier than some of the Private Dancer songs that were released as singles:

 

Queen's 'You and I' would have been far superior to 'Tie Your Mother Down' and 'Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy':

 

The Beatles had many, but in my opinion the one sure fire super catchy hit single that was just an album track in "It Won't Be Long".

 

Interestingly this song was released as a single in both West and East Germany, 1964.

 

The Church-A Month of Sundays. Fantastic track IMHO!

 

'Pulling Teeth' by Green Day

 

Sugarland - County Line

Jason Aldean - Days Like These

Jake Owen - Keepin' It Country

Frankie Ballard - Sweet Time

Keith Urban - Even the Stars Fall 4 U

 

Sympathy for the Devil, Stones, in December ‘68

 

"Why Did It Have To Be Me" - ABBA ("Arrival")
"I Still Miss Someone" - Suzy Bogguss ("Simpatico") I Still Miss Someone (feat. Chet Atkins)
"Cold December In Your Heart" - Glen Campbell ("By The Time I Get To Phoenix") Cold December (In Your Heart) (Digitally Remastered 01) - YouTube

 

"You Stole My Love" by the Yardbirds. It was finally assembled from the multiple takes and released on "Cumular Limit" and "Little Games Sessions & More". It's way better than the Yardbirds' later singles that were released (like "Ten Little Indians" and "Goodnight Sweet Josephine").

"Goodnight Sweet Josephine" sounds like something that Herman's Hermits would have turned down, the absolute antithesis of the Yardbirds sound. It reached the lofty position of number 127 on the charts.

 

“Tonite” by the Go-Go’s (Beauty and The Beat)

 

None, not a fan of singles, but I high %age of Beatles song would qualify.

 

Love is Only Sleeping - The Monkees
Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque - The Partridge Family
Together (Having a Ball) - The Partridge Family

 

Just For the Record - Marillion (off Clutching With Straws)

 

Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (original studio version)
Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown

 

Another artist besides The Beatles with several album tracks that could have been hit singles is Stevie Wonder. For starters, you have “Golden Lady” And “Creepin.”

 

Otis Redding...634-5789

It would have chugged along nicely on the radio

 

"Grey Seal" from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road