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45 Singles You Just Had to Buy

In the bad old days before the internet & streaming😀, what pieces of music did you have to purchase on a 45rpm single because there was no other genuine way of getting them home? The trouble was that more often than not, an album cut of a rock-and-roll hit would be a different version/take/mix of the one you loved hearing on the radio. Which means you just had to get the 45.

Here's a random handful of mine --

Hanky Panky -- Tommy James & the Shondells

Save the Country -- Laura Nyro

She Don't Care about Time and Change is Now -- The Byrds

Baby Please Don't Go -- Them

Candy Girl -- Four Seasons

The Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton

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jay15206
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I started buying records in 1963: the Beach Boys, Little Peggy March, the Four Seasons, the Ronettes and other Spector girl groups, Lesley Gore, etc. They were all 45s until December, as all I had was an RCA 45 player. That Christmas, my parents bought me a suitcase stereo for Christmas, as well as some albums by the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, and Skeeter Davis.

I continued buying 45s that weren't included in albums until around 1968, when albums seemed to have become the dominant medium. I bought "Hey, Jude" and "Harper Valley PTA." I don't think I bought another until "Bette Davis Eyes" in 1981. It must not have come out on LP as soon as it was released.

 

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