[78-L] B side became the hit, was Re: Double Sided Dance Band Discs - swing era

[J. E. Knox]

Greetings from FixitLand!

David Lennick started things with:

>> Tangent here..Patti Page's "Tennessee Waltz" was the reverse of something
>> called "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus".

To which Rodger Holtin replied:

>> OK, a worthy enough thread nonetheless, so anybody want to list the B
>> sides that became overshadowing hits from the big band era? ...<snip>

Royal Pemberton wrote:

> Bluebird 7746--where 'Begin the beguine' was the flip to 'Indian love call'
> (Artie Shaw)....

And the first Shaw release of his 1940-42 band, Victor 26542, had the hit "Frenesi" on the B side of "Adiós, Mariquita Linda."

Then there's these by Glenn Miller:

Bluebird B-10214-B Moonlight Serenade (marginally bigger hit than the A-side "Sunrise Serenade")
B-11230-B Chattanooga Choo Choo (flip of "I Know Why")
B-11382-B A String Of Pearls" (flip of "Day Dreaming")

Some Decca couplings' B-sides got so popular that the sides were reversed when reissued. For instance, Decca 1340 B "For Dancers Only" by Jimmie Lunceford (flip of "Coquette") ended up on the A side when the coupling was released in an album. Same thing happened to Clyde McCoy's "Tear It Down"/"Sugar Blues" (the latter likely considered the "hit," such as it is).

"Rock Around The Clock" (Bill Haley and the Comets) was the B side of "Thirteen Women."

Take care,


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