My top ten favourite in my collection:
1. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't Understand
- Jive Records 1988
- B Side: Parents Just Don't Understand (instrumental version)
2. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
- Volt Records
- B Side: Sweet Lorene
3. Men at Work - Down Under
- Columbia Records 1982
- B Side: Crazy
4. Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
- ABC Records 1973
- B Side: A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' the Blues)
5. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
- Tamla 1970
- B Side: I'm More Than Happy
6. John Lennon - Woman
- Geffen Records 1980
- B Side: Yoko Ono - Beautiful Boys
7. The Oak Ridge Boys - Elvira
- MCA Records 1981
- B Side: A Woman Like You
8. Bertie Higgins - Key Largo
- Kat Family Records 1981
- B Side: White Line Fever
9. Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
- UA Records 1977
- B Side: It's All Right With Me
10. The Tornadoes - Telestar
- London Demand Performance
- B Side: Jungle Fever
Don't you love how they used to have the B-side of a 45 as the instrumental version of the A-side. Ah, the 80s had it going on. One of my favourite examples of that is my 45 of Culture Club's Time (Clock of the Heart) with the instrumental version on the B-side . . . and it's spectacular as an instrumental. So is David Bowie's This Is Not America 45 with the instrumental on the back. Of course the instrumental is all Pat Metheny though since that's who did the music for that great song.
ReplyDeletethe flip side instrumental was how us kids in the 80s did karaoke!
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