Any old excuse to get Davey Johnstone to pick up his mandolin, I suppose, as the classic Band rips right through this short cornpone country track in no time- it clocks in at under two minutes!
Bernie takes the rabbit metaphor and runs with it; if there's a deeper meaning it's not evident. Just sounds like he came up with a goofy idea, and Elton arranged it appropriately. Wouldn't surprise me if it was cooked up in the studio. A "rabbit stu-dio", heh heh.
While researching the song, I discovered that it apparently shared the B-side of "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" with "Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again)", and I don't recall that being standard practice for 45's (in the US, anyway) back in the day. Guess its brevity made it necessary, who knows.
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7 comments:
Well, geez, thanks a lot! How long did that take you? 30 seconds?
I'm a Mac person, hence my inability to use WMA. I'll look into a free converter. I had a similarly bad experience with OGG encoded files- I can play 'em on iTunes, but I can't put on my iPod or burn 'em on a CD, and if that's the way it works with WMA, I'll not bother.
Easy WMA might be the way to go; have a look and see what you think.
Thanks, Brendan- earlier today, I downloaded Switch, and it worked just fine. I haven't tried to burn it to CD or put it on my iPod yet, though, so if that doesn't work I may try that.
There were EPs in the 1950s and early '60s with two songs per side.
I swear there's an Elton John-John Lennon record with one song on one side and two songs on the other. Maybe it's an import of 3 songs from them live at MSG.
Oh, sure- EP's I knew about. I just can't recall any instances of US-released 45's that had two songs on the flip together. I'm sure there were others, but I don't think it was a common practice.
Cornflakes and Classics only lists the "Lucy in the Sky" single with one b-side, "One Day (at a Time)". "I Saw Her Standing There" was the flip of "Philadelphia Freedom". Shee, who knows- at some point in the last 30 years they may have issued them all together, wouldn't surprise me if they did!
It's possible that the single was issued twice, with one B-side replacing the other. I don't know if they actually shared the B-side at the same time.
I had that single.
I also thought it cool that they put two songs on the b-sude. I collected all 8f his singles in the 70s, and I enjoyed all of the b-sides, despite the fact that "Snow Quueen" is about Cher (ugh).
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