Angie - Peppermint Lump b/w Breakfast In Naples (1979) - single

In 1979 Townshend produced and performed guitar on the novelty single "Peppermint Lump" by Angie on Stiff Records, featuring 11-year-old Angela Porter on lead vocals.

One of the rarest Stiff singles,it was produced by Pete Townshend who also played on it,for child star Angie Porter who had been seen in "Rod Hull & Emu" and one of the Wombles films.

Song was written by an Eel Pie staff writer,James Asher,though no details ever emerged of other songs and he was more noted for making library albums.
Pete's guitar, appropriate sound effects, and Angie's untrained voice all combine to make it a welcome break from sleek mass-produced pulp.  It's unpretentious and very English!

The band played on the B side as "Angie's Orchestra" and included a couple of members of Pete's brother Simon's "On The Air",who later formed half of Big Country.



A - Angie - Peppermint Lump (3:18)
       Written-By – Asher

B - Angie's Orchestra - Breakfast In Naples (3:41
       Written-By – Asher


Credits

• Producer, Arranged By – Pete Townshend

Notes
Label: Stiff Records ‎– BUY 51
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1979
Genre: Rock

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YPVOFz1a26nBzoX9DmX9im2bqWzz315P

Frankie Goes To Hollywood ‎- Two Tribes b/w One February Friday (1984)

"Two Tribes" is an anti-war song by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records on 4 June 1984.
The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome. Presenting a nihilistic, gleeful lyric expressing enthusiasm for nuclear war, it juxtaposes a relentless pounding bass line and guitar riff inspired by American funk and R&B pop with influences of Russian classical music, in an opulent arrangement produced by Trevor Horn.

The single was released at a time when the Cold War had intensified and fears about global nuclear warfare were at a peak. Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the "two tribes" of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries (giving the examples of "cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons"), the line "On the air America/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen" is a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan. Reagan had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s). The title of his first film had been Love Is On The Air.

The lyric "working for the black gas" is, according to Johnson, "About oil surpassing gold. How you might as well be paid in petrol."And the line "Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new gods?" was inspired by the 1959 British film Cover Girl Killer.

Johnson explained, "The TV was on in the background while I was doing me ironing and suddenly this character came out with that statement." (The actual dialogue, which occurs at about 48 minutes 24 seconds into the film, is "Surely sex and horror are the new gods in this polluted world of so-called entertainment?")

The track featured snippets of narration from actor Patrick Allen, recreating his narration from the British Protect and Survive public information films about how to survive a nuclear war. (The original Protect and Survive soundtracks were sampled for the 7-inch mixes.)


A - Two Tribes »Cowboys And Indians« (3:54)
       Vocals – Holly Johnson, Paul Rutherford
        Written-By – Johnson, O'Toole, Gill

B - One February Friday »Doctors And Nurses« (4:56)
        Performer [Played By] – Brian Nash, Mark O'Toole, Peter Gill
        Written-By – Nash, Johnson, O'Tolle, Morley, Rutherford, Gill


Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Zang Tuum Tumb
• Published By – Perfect Songs
• Pressed By – Sonopress
• Printed By – Mohndruck Graphische Betriebe GmbH
• Distributed By – Ariola Group Of Companies

Credits

• Art Direction – XLZTT
• Engineer – Steve Lipson
• Photography By [Of V.I. Lenin] – Anton Corbijn
• Producer – Trevor Horn

Notes
Released:  1984
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Country:  Europe
Genre: Synth-pop
Label: Island Records ‎
Catalog# 106 495

The Specials ‎- Ghost Town b/w Why? (1981) - single

"Ghost Town" is a song by the British two-tone band the Specials, released on 12 June 1981. The song spent three weeks at number one and 10 weeks in total in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Addressing themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities.

Internal tensions within the band were also coming to a head when the single was being recorded, resulting in the song being the last single recorded by the original seven members of the group before splitting up.

The B-side, written by two different members of the Specials. "Why?" is a plea for racial tolerance and was written by guitarist Lynval Golding in response to a violent racist attack he had suffered in July 1980 outside the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead in London, which had left him hospitalised with broken ribs.


A - Ghost Town (3:40)
       Written-By – Dammers

B - Why? (2:54)
       Written-By – Golding


Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
• Engineered At – Woodbine Studios
• Published By – Plangent Visions Music Ltd.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chrysalis Records Ltd.
• Pressed By – Sonopress

Credits

• Engineer – J. Rivers
• Producer – John Collins

Notes

Released:  1981  

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM 

Country:  Netherlands  

Genre: Ska 

Label: Chrysalis Records/2Tone Records

Catalog# 103 338

Spandau Ballet - Muscle Bound b/w Glow (1981) - single

"Muscle Bound" is a song by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released as the third single from their debut album Journeys to Glory. In the UK, it was released as a double A-side with the song "Glow"; elsewhere, "Glow" was included as the B-side.

A spare funky guitar-lick gets stomped on all over by a galumphing drum beat and a somewhat monotonous chant number two.


A - Muscle Bound  (3:56)
       Written-By – G. Kemp 

B - Glow  (3:47)
      Written-By – G. Kemp 


Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Ariola Benelux B.V.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chrysalis Records Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – Chrysalis Records Ltd.

Credits

• Design – Graham Smith 
• Producer – Richard James Burgess

Notes

Released: 1981 

Format: Vinyl, 7", Single 

Country:  Netherlands  

Genre: New Wave, Synth-Pop 

Label: Chrysalis Records 

Catalog# 103 125

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights b/w Kite (1978) - single

"Wuthering Heights" is a song by Kate Bush, released as her debut single in January 1978.
It became a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart, and stayed at the position for four weeks.
The song is Bush's biggest hit to date, and appears on her 1978 debut album, The Kick Inside. The B-side of the single was another song by Bush, named "Kite" – hence the kite imagery on the record sleeve.
"Wuthering Heights" came 32nd in Q magazine's Top 100 Singles of All Time as voted by readers. It is No. 5 on Pitchfork's "Top 200 Tracks of the 1970s".

The guitar solo is played by Ian Bairnson, best known for his work with Alan Parsons. It is placed rather unobtrusively in the mix, and later engineer Jon Kelly would regret not making the solo a little louder in the mix.

Written by Bush when she was 18, the song is based on the novel of the same name. Bush was inspired to write the song by the last ten minutes of a 1967 BBC mini-series based on Wuthering Heights. She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday (30 July) with Emily Brontë. Bush reportedly wrote the song for her album, The Kick Inside, within the space of just a few hours late at night.

Lyrically, "Wuthering Heights" uses several quotations from Catherine Earnshaw, most notably in the chorus – "Let me in! I'm so cold!" – as well as in the verses, with Catherine's confession to her servant of "bad dreams in the night". It is sung from Catherine's point of view, as she pleads at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in.
This romantic scene takes a melancholic turn if one has read Chapter 3 of the original book, as Catherine is in fact a ghost, calling lovingly to Heathcliff from beyond the grave. Catherine's "icy" ghost grabs the hand of the narrator, Mr Lockwood, through the bedroom window, asking him to let her in, so she can be forgiven by her lover Heathcliff, and freed from her own personal purgatory. Critic Simon Reynolds described it as "Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody".


A - Wuthering Heights  (4:20)
       Written-By – Bush

B - Kite  (2:52)
      Written-By – Bush

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – EMI-Bovema Holland
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – EMI Records Ltd.

Credits

• Mastered By – HN
• Producer – Andrew Powell

Notes

Released: 1978

Genre: Rock, Pop 

Style: Pop Rock, Art Rock

Label: EMI Records 

Catalog# 5C 006-06596 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gHAEJNkjVaSSe1C2Zzs4hNlwCFWYeU5K/view?usp=sharing

The Staple Singers - Let's Do It Again b/w After Sex (1975) - single

• Written by Curtis Mayfield, this was part of the soundtrack for the 1975 comedy film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. The Staples performed all the songs on the soundtrack, including "Funky Love," "A Whole Lot of Love" and "After Sex." You might notice a theme.
• The song topped the Hot 100 for one week in December 27, 1975, the day before Roebuck "Pops" Staples' 61st birthday. It was the second of two #1 hits for the Staple Singers following "I'll Take You There" three years earlier.
• The song shocked the Staple Singers' gospel fans with its sexual lyrics over a sensual groove - it's pretty obvious what they want to do again. Indeed, Pops Staples had to be persuaded to sing his part. His daughter Mavis recalled to Uncut in 2016: "In the studio, Curtis said, 'Pops, this is your part…' And it was (sings) 'I like you lady. So fine with your pretty hair.' And Pops said, 'Curtis, man, I'm not gonna sing that. I'm a church man.' And Curtis said, 'Oh Pops, the Lord won't mind.'
  
  Me and my sisters wanted to hear our voices on the big screen, so we kept at him and said, 'Daddy, it's just a movie score, you're not leaving the church…' And we finally got him to do it."
• This was the #1 song in America when Time magazine published an article about "sex rock" songs the last week of December in 1975. Along with Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby" and KC & The Sunshine Band's "That's The Way (I Like It)," it was cited as an example of the genre, which was drawing the ire of many activist groups that felt these songs were leading to unwanted pregnancies.
  
  The Staple Singers had been described as gospel, pop, spiritual and soul, but "sex rock" is not a tag they were likely to earn.

A - Let's Do It Again  (3:28)
      Written-By – Curtis Mayfield

B - After Sex  (3:24)

      Written-By – Curtis Mayfield

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Distributed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

Credits

• Arranged By – Gil Askey, Rich Tufo
• Producer – Curtis Mayfield

Both sides "Edited Version"s taken from "the Original Sound Track Album CU 5005 LET'S DO IT AGAIN." Distributed by Warner Bros.

Notes

Released: 1975
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul Ballad
Label: Warner Bros. Records ‎
Catalog# WB 16.645

https://drive.google.com/file/d/144HQl4Cz-sZ7lIvPsWZzIpMgXZQ7HdWg/view?usp=sharing

Frans Biezen - Winter In De Stad b/w Ode Aan Marlies (1976) - single

Frans Biezen - Aliases:  Frank Ashton, Frank Avons, Frank Duzzle, Frank Evans

Frank Ashton (Tilburg, 10 oktober 1946), artiestennaam van Frans Biezen, is een zanger die doorbrak met de Tilburgse beatgroep Les Cruches. In 1974 werd hij zanger bij het dansorkest Hannie en de Rekels, een voortzetting van het samenwerkingsverband Corry en de Rekels. Hij nam ook platen op onder de namen Frankie Duzzle, Frank Evans en (als duo) Frans & Monique.

In 1986 won Ashton de Soundmixshow met een uitvoering van het lied Reno Town van Tony Christie. Die overwinning betekende voor hem een verdere doorbraak als zanger. Na een val van een podium in 1997 leek een einde te komen aan de zangcarrière van Biezen. Na jaren van revalideren maakte de zanger in 2004 echter zijn comeback met het album Latin Lover.

De muzikant bracht vanaf 1966 34 singles uit.


A - Winter In De Stad (4:09)
       Written-By – C. Willems, T. Hendrik, K.v. Haaren

B - Ode Aan Marlies (3:33)

      Written-By – C. Willems

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Dureco
• Distributed By – Dureco
• Recorded At – Dureco Studio

Credits

• Producer – Cor Willems
• Recorded By – Emile Elsen

Notes

Release: 1976

Genre: Nederlandstalig

Label:  Elf Provinciën Records

Catalog#  ELF 65.062 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tRqn2FKICmXEujVzxrOJSsqLGZZv8Zie/view?usp=sharing

Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway b/w I Shall Be Released (1977)

Tom Robinson Band (TRB) are a British rock band, established in 1976 by singer, songwriter and bassist Tom Robinson. The band's debut single "2-4-6-8 Motorway" was a top five hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1977, their début album, Power in the Darkness (1978), is regarded as a definitive late Seventies punk album.
The music and lyrics were written by Tom Robinson, and it was the first single released by the Tom Robinson Band, who had formed in January 1977 and were signed to EMI in August 1977.
Robinson wrote the song between leaving Café Society in 1976, and forming the Tom Robinson Band in 1977, when he was performing with whichever friends were available on the night, so the song had to be simple enough to learn in a few minutes.
Robinson came up with the tune "trying to work out the chords to Climax Blues Band’s "Couldn’t Get It Right"" which he could not really remember.
This led to the simple three chord repeat of 2-4-6-8. The verse came from Robinson's memories of driving back to London through the night after gigs with Café Society, "By the time our van hit the last stretch of M1 into London the motorway sun really was coming up with the morning light."The chorus was lifted from a Gay Lib chant "2,4,6,8, Gay is twice as good as straight... 3,5,7,9, Lesbians are mighty fine".
EMI initially turned the song down, but after touring the band became much tighter, and guitarist Danny Kustow expanded his riffs, which persuaded EMI to release the record.
The song is about the joys of driving a lorry through a rainy night, until dawn. Although the chorus is based upon a gay liberation chant, this is not clear to the casual listener, so the song is in contrast to their far more blatantly political later songs, covering subjects such as homophobia "Glad to Be Gay" and civil disorder "Long Hot Summer".


A - 2-4-6-8 Motorway  (3:18)
       Producer – Vic Maile
       Written-By – Robinson

B - I Shall Be Released (For George Ince)  (4:35)
      Producer – Triumvirat 
       Written-By – Dylan


Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – EMI Records Ltd.
• Published By – MCPS Ltd.
• Published By – B. Feldman & Co. Ltd.
• Pressed By – EMI Records

Credits

• Mastered By – Blair (tracks: A) 
• Track B was dedicated to the 'Free George Ince Campaign' 

Notes 

Release: 1977
Genre: Punk Rock
Label: EMI Records
Catalog# 5C 006-06570

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ISOIpmp3aeXQKRjIrxciqMoYSttv0YQD/view?usp=sharing

Eagles - New Kid In Town b/w Victim Of Love (1976)

"New Kid in Town" is a song by the Eagles from their 1976 studio album Hotel California. It was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther. Released as the first single from the album, the song became a number-one hit in the US, and number 20 in the UK. The single version has an earlier fade-out than the album version.
The song features Glenn Frey singing the lead vocals, with Don Henley singing main harmony vocals. Randy Meisner plays the guitarrón mexicano, Don Felder plays electric guitars, and Joe Walsh plays the electric piano and organ parts. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices.

• "We were writing about our replacements."
  
  That's what J.D. Souther told us about this song, which he wrote with Eagles members Glenn Frey and Don Henley. Souther was part of the flourishing Southern California music scene, and often collaborated with the Eagles, also cowriting their hits "Best Of My Love" and "Heartache Tonight."
  
  Souther explained: "'New Kid' emerged from our whole fascination with gunfire as an analogy. The point was at some point some kid would come riding into town that was much faster than you and he'd say so, and then he'd prove it. That's the story of life. That's the story of aging, especially coming out of your teenage and young man years and as you approach 30, you begin to see that things don't stay the same forever. And that there's a lot other guys like you and gals like you that want the same thing that are coming up, and they want their moment, too, and they're going to get it. And it's fine. It's as it should be."
• Don Felder, who was the Eagles guitarist at the time, told us that once they came up with the concept of the "Hotel California," some other songs fell into place, including this one. Said Felder: "Once you arrive in LA and you have your first couple of hits, you become the 'New Kid in Town,' and then with greater success, you live 'Life In The Fast Lane,' and you start wondering if all that time you've spent in the bars was just 'Wasted Time.' So all of these other song ideas kind of came out of that concept once the foundation was laid for 'Hotel California.'"

A - New Kid In Town (4:49)  

       Written-By – Don Henley, Glenn Frey, John David Souther

B - Victim Of Love (4:04)  

       Written-By – Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, John David Souther

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – EMI-Bovema N.V.

Credits

• Producer – Bill Szymczyk

van de Elpee: AS 53051 "Hotel California" 

Notes

Release: 1976

Genre: Country Rock

Label: Asylum Records

Catalog# AS 13069

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kNMdK4jeQbAraN_rqCqWWK7Itb5d2GKu/view?usp=sharing

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Good Year For The Roses b/w Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven (1981)

The initial word on Almost Blue was that it was going to be career suicide, but while the album scored no hits in the United States (unsurprising, since Elvis Costello didn't finally bag a Top 40 single until "Everyday I Write the Book" scraped into the lower 30s in the fall of 1983), his sensitive reading of the George Jones hit "A Good Year for the Roses" hit the U.K. Top Ten, making it one of his biggest chart singles ever. (A creepily atmospheric video that got a lot of U.K. airplay probably helped a lot.) The song is sentimental almost to the point of self-parody, and Costello seems to recognize this; a barely perceptible wink seems to accompany the first verse, in which the singer compares himself unfavorably to a lipstick-marked cigarette and half-drunk cup of coffee. This is the most identifiably Billy Sherrill-produced song on the album, complete with the strings and female backing vocals that are his trademark; take out Costello's inimitable lead vocal and you could easily slot Jones, Ray Price, or Charlie Rich in its place. This proves only how suitable Costello's vocals are to the countrypolitan sound, despite the complaints of some of the less open-minded reviewers at the time. "A Good Year for the Roses" is both a great Elvis Costello song and a great country song.



A - Good Year For The Roses  (3:05)
       Written-By – J. Chesnut 
 
B - Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven  (1:55)
       Written-By – Jack Ripley 


Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – WEA Records B.V.
• Manufactured By – WEA Records SA / NV
• Distributed By – WEA Records B.V.
• Distributed By – WEA Records SA / NV

Credits

• Producer – Billy Sherrill

Notes

Release: 1981

Genre: Pop Ballad

Label: WEA Records

Catalog# WEA 18.879

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sFxqicz3WQWFKpA7sY47NZrRYyws-02J/view?usp=sharing