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

Stevie Wonder-- "Master Blaster Dub". Never been on album or CD that I know of.

 

Do you mean "Easy on My Soul," the same song subsequently also done by Bad Company?

 

I'm not a Dylan expert, but it seems to me that BOTH versions of "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window" were hard to come by for a very long time other than on the singles.

I'm talking about both the "mistake" release that appeared on some pressings of "Positively 4th Street" (I used to own one of these decades ago) and also the later "official" version.

 

Crabby Appleton's "Grab On"- was too late for their first album, didn't make it on their second album, and has yet to make its debut on CD because Collector's Choice weren't allowed to add bonus tracks when they re-issued Crabby's two albums.

 

................and the B side to "Shower the People", which is "I Can Dream of You", never released on ANY JT album or compilation. Written by his brother Livingston from his "Over the Rainbow" LP on Capricorn. Great tune.

 

Here's another: "Merry-Go-Round" by The Youngbloods, which I don't think appeared anywhere other than on 45 until an Australian comp, Euphoria, that came out in the late 1990s.

Also, toward the end of their career The Youngbloods did a satiric take on Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" called "Hippie from Olema." I don't think the original single version, whose melody exactly mimicked the Haggard song, has ever appeared anywhere else.

They subsequently performed this song live, and that's on an album or two. But in that version they alter the melody considerably. I've always wondered if that was done because the Haggard camp complained about it.

 

The Youngbloods, "Merry Go Round", one of their best songs IMO, released as a single in 1967 and for some baffling reason wasn't included on Earth Music. It showed up on several European best-ofs in the 80s but wasn't re-released in the USA until 2002 on the the essential comp.

 

GMTA, Hominy. I beat you by a minute!

 

How about the B-side to "Ride with Me" by Steppenwolf — "For Madmen Only"?

I'm also betting that another B-side with a somewhat similar theme, "Dante's Inferno" by The Blues Magoos, took a long time to come out anywhere other than a 45 B-side (if it ever did at all).

 

Didn't know there were two.

 

No I do not, the song I refer to was the B side of My Brother Jake only.

 

Yes. I found a copy of the "mistake" version, labeled "Positively 4th Street" but with someone (a DJ, I imagine) having crossed out the title and written "NO!" all over the label, in a discard pile at a local electronics store ca. 1968 for 10 cents. I ended up selling it a few years later at auction for $35.

I wish now I hadn't done it, but 35 bucks was a lot of dough to me in the early 1970s!

The official release of this single, which I also used to have, featured a completely different take.

 

OK. I also realize now that my memory was a bit muddled.

"Easy on My Soul" by Free originally appeared on the Heartbreaker album, right?

But then later it was the B-side of Bad Company's "Movin' On" single, and at least at the time, I don't think it was on their contemporaneous album.

 

Now you're cookin'!

 

I just happened to be listening to the recent 4 lp CD reissue set by Dennis Yost & The Classics IV and after the last tune was over, I had a nagging feeling something was missing. Turns out to be Change Of Heart which actually was a new song on their Golden Greats Vol.1 which came between Traces and Song. I then learned they had 4 other failed singles in the early 70s that had no accompanying album.

 

Not sure I’ve heard that song?

 

It’s not a song title, but the title of their first single, actually a 3-track EP with "Out of Control " as its main track. Released only by CBS Ireland, it was pressed as a 7” with a picture sleeve and as 12”, numbered to 1,000.

The first 500 copies of the second single, "Another Day" came with a postcard designed by Bono hisself.

I bought all of them in a rare bout of foresight.

 

The recent double retrospective, "Between The Jigs and the Reels" was a missed opportunity to include the first single, which is only otherwise available on a long out of print Irish compilation LP and a similar CD. Also absent is the second single Cliffs of Dooneen (mono) and Yarmouth Town. Both tracks have turned up on various vinyl compilations, again long out of print.

 

"The Beatles' Movie Medley"

 

Which artist are we talking about? It's got lost in the thread somehow

 

A Quartet called The Beatles or something.

 

Ah yes... I heard they're good.

 

Smashing. As seen on TV.

 

If we're going to go with mixes or versions, it could be endless
The Shamen-MK2A (Beatmasters Vox 12/Instrumental 12 Inch )

 

According to my internet research, the Kinks Dedicated Follower of Fashion was only a single. It seems like they could have put that one on an album, it's one of my favorite Kinks songs