Songs that were released as singles but are rare or scarce on LP's

You still want me - The Kinks

 

Let me show you - Free

 

Only My Soul - Free

 

Stoned - The Rolling stones

 

Hey, hey what can I do - Led Zeppelin

 

Why can't a cover be a B-Side?

 

Floyd: Apples and Oranges, Point me at the Sky and Candy and A Currant Bun, Tigers
Byrds-Lady Friend, She Don't Care About Time
Fleetwood Mac-Purple Dancer, Silver Springs
Quicksilver Messenger Service-Stand By Me
Simon & Garfunkel - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
Poco-My Kind of Love
Seatrain-Caroline Caroline
Fairport Convention-If I Had A Ribbon Bow, Sir B McKenzie
Argent-Kingdom
George Harrison -Miss O'Dell
Steely Dan-Bodhisattva (live)
John Fogerty--Back in the Hills, Comin Don't The Road, You Don't Own Me, Ricochet, Evil Thing, You Got The Magic

 

Well:

1 - name a cover song that they released on a single - A or B side (in the UK where they had control of their singles)
2 - they told Martin when making the argument that they didn't want to release 'How Do You Do It' that they wanted to write their own singles.
3 - even on their albums they tried to keep covers to a minimum:
i - PPM/WTB/BFS - 6 covers to 8 originals
ii - Help - 2 covers to 12 originals
iii - three songs on an EP
iv - one cover song recorded as filler for a US LP, subsequently included on a UK hits collection as collector's bait

So (unless I'm forgetting any) covers constitute roughly 11% of their entire output in the 60s. Seems to me that they considered covers as a necessary evil (used as album filler whenever they ran short of originals) that they avoided whenever possible and eventually (from Rubber Soul onwards) jettisoned entirely.

 

Well, they had some A-side cover-hits in the early days:
Twist And Shout
Rock And Roll Music
Roll Over Beethoven

I'm not sure it's was only outside the UK.
Do you mean these hit singles were released against their will?

 

YES! Those were American Capitol singles, over which the band had NO control.

 

I dont think the excellent 45 version of sky pilot has ever been on an album.
The big band 45 version of Dylan's 1971 George jackson is only on the Australian masterpieces. This is lame because he has like 50 bootlegs or whatever the series is called and he cant put that song on one of them.
Also Neil young 45 cinnamon girl on on his 20 archive released cds

 

Well, Cliff Richard recorded a duet with Christian singer Sheila Walsh, and it was released as a single in 1983. It was not a huge hit, to put it mildly, peaking at No. 64. (Right after Sheila had jokingly said that "Anybody can score a hit with Cliff. Even Miss Piggy would be able to!" She has since revealed that she came to regret that claim... )

Anyway, the song was included as the title track of the European edition of her 1983 album "DRIFTING". (The album was called "WAR OF LOVE" in the US, and didn´t feature the "hit".) Since then... Almost nothing. I have been searching the internet for other albums featuring this duet, preferably on CD, and I came up with two releases worldwide. (A few more on vinyl.) Both compilations. It has sort of been written out of both Cliff´s and Sheila´s histories. It wasn´t a hit, so forget about it.

I just happen to love the song. I have never lacked bad taste.

 

I got all three on the legit (PRT) Argentinian compilation "Kinky Gems" which came out in 1980.

"Apples" and "Candy" were on the EMI comp "The Best of the Pink Floyd" from 1970

This was on the "Savage Seven" soundtrack LP from 1968

 

That wasn't released in the US

 

For a long time, the only place this was available was on the B-side of "Fakin' It." It wasn't released in stereo until a mail-order 5-LP box set, The Complete Collection, in 1980. It then appeared on the Old Friends CD box set.

 

"Holiday Road" by Lindsey Buckingham

 

Squeeze's "Squabs on Forty Fab", their parody of Stars on 45 might qualify. I bought the "Labelled with Love" 45 just to have it on the B side. At the time there was no other way to get it.

 

OP doesn't mention US.

 

First CD release was this one from 1987...

The Kinks - The Kinks Are Well Respected Men

 

Runrig's first single, Loch Lomond, is a different, re-recorded, version to that which appears on the album Highland Connection, and as far as I'm aware has never appeared on any album, nor in any format other than the original 7" record. How I wish I still had that single ....

Their next 2 singles, Skye and Dance Called America are again different, earlier, versions to those found on the subsequent Heartland album. I did hear that they once appeared on a compilation album of Scottish music, but have never tracked down a copy and these two original versions have never otherwise been released on album.

Their 4th single, The Work Song from 1986 has never appeared on any album, in any version, except finally as a live version on the limited edition Rarities box set which came out in 2018, some 32 years later.

 

"Dallas" and "Sail the Waterway" by Steely Dan

The original 45 is rare. These two songs are most commonly found on a British four-song 12-inch EP.

 

Yes. I was too perplexed to reply.

 

Three Drunken Maidens/Planxty
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór/Planxty
Yarmouth Town/Planxty


Not impossible but very hard to find on LP or CD.

 

The Hills of Granemore
An Bothán a bha'aig Fionnghuala
My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
He Mandu

All by Munroe.


Impossible to find save for the original, short-lived singles.

 

Three/U2
Another Day/U2

Singles on CBS Ireland.

Both of which I sold for three-quarters of a million euro on eBay.