Great double siders - part 3
Here's the last part of my list of great UK double sided 45s (78s in a couple of cases), from the letter P onwards. Only one record per artist as usual - which Elvis single would you choose???
Carl
Perkins – Blue Suede Shoes/Honey Don’t (London),
Mary Petti –
Hey Lawdy Lawdy/ Gee But It Hurts (RCA),
Wilson
Pickett – Mustang Sally/Three Time Loser (Atlantic),
Piltdown
Men – McDonalds Cave/Brontosaurus Stomp (Capitol),
Gene Pitney
– If I Didn’t Have A Dime/ Only Love Can Break A Heart (United Artists),
Platters –
Great Pretender/Only You (Mercury),
Elvis
Presley – Hound Dog/ Don’t be Cruel (HMV),
Lloyd Price
– Stagger Lee/ You Need Love (HMV),
Marvin
Rainwater – Whole Lotta Woman/ Baby Don’t Go (MGM),
Otis
Redding – Respect/I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Atlantic),
Jimmy Reed –
Shame Shame Shame/Let’s Get Together (Stateside),
Reparata
& the Delrons – Saturday Night Didn’t Happen/ Panic (Bell),
Cliff
Richard – High Class Baby/ My Feet Hit the Ground (Columbia),
Rip Chords –
Gone/ She Thinks I Still Care (CBS),
Rolling
Stones – The Last Time/Play With Fire (Decca),
Rosie &
the Originals Angel Baby/Give Me Love (London),
Bobby
Rydell – Swingin’ School/ Ding-a-ling (Columbia)
Sam &
Dave – I Thank You/Wrap It Up (Stax),
Jack Scott –
My True Love/Leroy (London),
Neil Sedaka
– Oh Carol/One Way Ticket (RCA),
Del Shannon
– Hey Little Girl/You Never Talked About Me (London),
Shirelles –
Will You Love me Tomorrow/Boys (Top Rank),
Percy
Sledge – Take Time To Know Her/It’s All Wrong But It’s Alright (Atlantic),
Huey Piano
Smith & the Clowns – Don’t You Just Know It/High Blood Pressure (Columbia)
Benny
Spellman – Lipstick Traces/Fortune Teller (London),
Edwin Starr
– Stop Her On Sight/Headline News (Polydor resissue),
Supremes –
You Can’t Hurry Love/Put Yourself In My Place (Tamla Motown),
Surfaris –
Wipe Out/Surfer Joe (London),
Temptations
– My Girl/Nobody But My Baby (Stateside),
Joe Tex –
Show Me/Woman Sees A Hard Time (When Her Man Is Gone) (Atlantic),
Them – Baby
Please Don’t Go/Gloria (Decca),
Irma Thomas
– Wish Someone Would Car/Breakaway (Liberty),
Tippie
& the Clovers – My Heart Said/Bossa Nova Baby – (Stateside),
Tommy
Tucker – Hi-Heel Sneakers/I Don’t Want Cha (Pye Int),
Conway
Twitty – It’s Only Make Believe/I’ll Try (MGM),
Ritchie Valens
– Donna/La Bamba (London),
Bobby Vee –
Run To Him/Walkin’ With My Angel (London),
Vernons
Girls – Lover Please/You Know What I Mean (Decca),
Gene
Vincent – Bluejean Bop/Who Slapped John (Capitol),
Dionne
Warwick – You’ll Never Get To Heaven/A House Is Not A Home (Pye Int),
Muddy
Waters – Walkin’ Blues/Rollin’ Stone Blues (Vogue 78),
Mary Wells –
Two Lovers/Operator (Oriole),
Marty Wilde
– Bad Boy/It’s Been Nice (Philips),
Hank
Williams – Cold Cold Heart/I’m A Long Gone Daddy (MGM 78),
Larry
Williams – Dizzy Miss Lizzy/Slow Down (London),
Chuck
Willis – What Am I Living For/Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes (London),
Jackie
Wilson – No Pity (In The Naked City)/I’m So Lonely (Coral),
Kathy Young
& the Innocents – A Thousand Stars/Eddie My Darling (Top Rank).
2 Comments:
Great selection Nick. It's only when you start looking at the major artists that you see how good the quality is of the 'B' sides. Most Presley 45's pre '60 flip sides are supremely strong as are the Ricky Nelson, Fats D and Jerry Lee. Glad to see the Mary Petti 45 in there too - such an underrated double-sider. I would like to vote in Don French's 'Lonely Saturday Night' and 'Goldilocks' and Eddie Fontaine's 'Nothing Shakin' and 'Don't Ya Know' both London beauties!
Cheers
John S
What a great reminder of how many teriffic double siders there were. Obviously very personal, I don't suppose anybody would have the same list.
Nice one Nick.
Cheers
Gordon F
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