[78-L] B side tossers

[RAY KILCOYNE]

The flip side of EARTH ANGEL also charted, (KO KO MO).  And David Burnham's 
Ritchie Valens recollection is essentially true, but he had it backward. 
DONNA charted a month before LA BAMBA.
RayK
>
From: "David Lennick"
> Two sided hits were a source of embarrassment for record companies who, 
> let's
> face it, weren't in business for their health. Sometimes they'd split the 
> sides
> when both had developed legs..the examples I'm thinking of are probably 
> mostly
> on smaller labels like ABC-Paramount, Unique and Mercury (Patti Page's 
> Tennis
> Knee Waltz has two couplings, one of them being the intended A-side, 
> Boogie
> Woogie Santa Claus).
>
> Sh-Boom and Earth Angel were two different records, a year apart, so 
> they'd be
> combined on a Golden Hits kind of reissue. Incidentally, the flip side of
> Sh-Boom DID chart, briefly (I Spoke Too Soon).
>
> dl
>
> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> If I recall correctly, when the famous plane crash took Ritchie Valens, 
>> Big Bopper and Buddy Holly in 1959, Holly had just released a hit called 
>> "Raining in my Heart".  But after the incident, it seemed much more 
>> appropriate to play the B side which was "It Doesn't Matter Anymore".
>>
>> As dl mentioned, a number of Elvis Presley records had both sides being 
>> hits of equal stature, (Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel).  There have been a 
>> number of records which went the hit parade route with one side and then 
>> later did it again with the other side.  The one that comes to mind is 
>> "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens.  Some time after that hit and gone through 
>> the chart, the B side, "Donna", did it again.  I think "Sh-Boom" and 
>> "Earth Angel" may have been another pair, (I have these two on a 45 but 
>> that may have been a new coupling for re-issue).
>>
>> db
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