I came across a 45 of Cheech and Chongs "Basketball Jones" at a secondhand store and had to have it.
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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The most recent one I recently picked up was the English 12" 45 for "Money for Nothing"; it's the only way I know of to get the complete version of that song on vinyl; oddly enough, the album version on vinyl is a shorter version, and I just had to have that longer into and the increased tension before that great guitar lick kicks in. And the wider grooves on 12" singles deliver premium sound. The first 45 I bought was one of two records: "Lovin' Every Minute of It" by Loverboy or "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry (as a retro single). I'd love to say it was Chuck, but it was most likely Loverboy, but you'll have to give me a pass: I was probably only 11. |
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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