45 Singles You Just Had to Buy


In the bad old days before the internet & streamingšŸ˜€, 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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I only bought one 45 that I can remember, Brandy by Looking Glass. It was all albums since then except I downloaded the live version of Jane Says by Jane's Addiction. It is so so much better than the album version.

Do Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred MannĀ  You Really Got me and All Day and All of the Night by the Kinks.

With the Beatles, DC5 and Stones switched to LPs

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Didn't the Beatles and the Stones release singles on 7" and not include them on an album?

I buy 45ā€™s now and then just to get the one song I like, rather than buying the whole album. Just bought the 45 of Player "baby come back".

@lowrider57 technically, yes, but it kinda depended on which version of the albums one purchased.
For UK releases, singles and LPs were very often mutually exclusive.
The US LPs would often include those UK singles at the expense of album tracks, or the US LPs would function as something of a hodgepodge of contemporaneous songs.

Viewing the ā€œtrueā€ release chronology, the ā€œtrueā€ catalog as being solely the UK one, then, yes, singles/EP releases and LP releases were often mutually Ā exclusive, song-wise.

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