British B Sides From The 60's

Would be an honor:
"Once Upon A Time" has one of the coolest double-track effects on Dusty's vocal with a catchy R&B melody.
"Baby Don't You Know" has an unusual chord combination and is so sultry.
"If It Hadn't Been For You" is a great 'girl group' ballad but without the schmaltz. Feels like doo-wop meets Burt Bacharach.
"Just A Little Lovin" is atmospheric and haunting.
"Joe" is a melodramatic ballad like if she did "I Just Don't Know What To Do with Myself" but in a Philly way.

These five B-sides should whet your appetite to dig deep into the Dusty Springfield catalogue. Prepare to have your breath taken away.

 

Thanks. I've given them a listen.

"Once Upon A Time" I see from the label that Dusty wrote this herself, or at least got the credit. Way back in 1963
"Baby Don't You Know". I think this is the original (by Tami Vincent). Both this & Dusty's versions are excellent:



"Just A Little Lovin" Written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
"Joe" It's written by Gamble & Huff. should have been a hit.

That's some great songs. Thanks again.

 

The Pretty Things "Mr. Evasion", b-side to "Defecting Grey"....

 

Someone mentioned this song earlier. B side of Butcher's Tale


Zombies - This Will Be Our year

 

This is the B side Of Days. One of my favourite Kink's songs.

Kinks - She's Got Everything

 

Happy Jack was on the radio in my small Tennessee town & I loved it. I talked a friend who had the money into buying the LP & we became big Who fans.

 

The guitar solo is otherwordly. Recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Studio in Memphis.

 

Dusty had so many great B-sides. One more that I would easily add is "I'm Gonna Leave You".

 

The Applejacks (again) - 'Make Up or Break Up' (1965)


song by Pete Dello & Grant Tracy; the B-side of the Applejacks' recording of Ray Davies' 'I go to Sleep'

 

That's really interesting.

 

Scott Walker's The Plague leads off his Boy Child compilation but was only a b-side initially.

 

Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Ten Guitars' has attained legendary status in New Zealand - a favourite for singalongs with an older generation - but it's obscure everywhere else.

Some Move songs have already been mentioned, but I also like 'Omnibus'.

 

Apparently when he first toured here the promoter told him he had to play it. He was confused but he & the band learnt it and it was, no surprise, the audience were calling for it and so he played it to an ovation.

Ever since then he has played it whenever he tours here.

To the rest of the world it is merely the B Side to Release Me.

 

I heard the audience was really confused when he played his first NZ show and didn't play his big NZ hit. His band had to quickly learn it before the Auckland show.

It's also uncanny how much he looks like Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement.

 

It will have been just a cash in attempt by Decca, similar to the Stone Age, Rock 'n' Rolling Stones and No Stone Unturned LPs they released. It was probably released to promote one of those.

 

Yeah, that makes sense. Some strange things were done in the 70s... ;-)

 

Great thread. I agree with each and every Kinks suggestion, for one thing. here's one of my longtime favorite B's from them, one of their first few, You Do Something To Me (1964)
(A side is You Still Want Me) I first heard these songs via that ugly green The Compleat Collection 2LP set sometime early/mid eighties as young teen.

 

Another from the Kinks that hasn't been mentioned yet. I've often called this Dave Davies gem my all time favorite song of theirs. I have to remind myself it's from '69 because I first heard it on The Kink Kronikles and I just somehow associate it with Lola era (also it was B side of Lola in the US)- even though it was officially the b side of Drivin' in the UK in 1969.

 

The End - Ian Whitcomb (1965, B side of N-E-R-V-O-U-S)

 

One of my favorite Who B sides is John Entwistle's Doctor, Doctor. Its A side is my all time favorite song by them, Pictures Of Lily (1967)

 

That's The Way I Feel from Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas (1965). It's all about that chord progression on the verse for me that makes this song happen. (A side is Bacharach/David's Trains And Boats And Planes).

 

Another from Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas. Love this one. Forgive Me, from 1966 (The A side is We're Doing Fine). Dig those guitars!! Billy sounds great here too.

 

Love this great popsike effort from Turquoise from March 1968. 53 Summer Street was the A side. Good but not half as good as Flossie.

 

This is THE side for me. I have always played this one rather than the A-side, "Natural Born Bugie":
Humble Pie - "Wrist Job"

 

A few years ago I bought the Rubble LP comp that's on just for that song