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Post by carllove on Jun 19, 2021 20:49:45 GMT
I love both Breakaway and Celebrate the News and enjoy watching the Mike Douglas episode on You Tube that includes performances of those songs (Carl on Drums!). Were the tracks not ready when 20/20 was produced? Did it have something to do with the Capitol Records lawsuit and the fact that "Reverberation" (also known as The Fading Rock Group Revival project) was never accepted or maybe never submitted to Capitol? These pre-date the Sunflower release by over a year, so I guess that wasn't an option? I did purchase a cassette of Rarities for $2.00 on eBay (my 2007 Toyota Avalon has a cassette player) so I could listen to Celebrate the News, and then realized that it is a bonus track on the Friends/20/20 CD I ordered last week. LOL! Now I have it twice! Already had Breakaway on the GV 30 year box set.
Anyway - does anyone have any knowledge as to why these tracks never made it onto a standard studio album? Also - how do you feel about each song?
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Post by jk on Jun 19, 2021 22:04:59 GMT
I love both Breakaway and Celebrate the News and enjoy watching the Mike Douglas episode on You Tube that includes performances of those songs (Carl on Drums!). Were the tracks not ready when 20/20 was produced? Did it have something to do with the Capitol Records lawsuit and the fact that "Reverberation" (also known as The Fading Rock Group Revival project) was never accepted or maybe never submitted to Capitol? These pre-date the Sunflower release by over a year, so I guess that wasn't an option? I did purchase a cassette of Rarities for $2.00 on eBay (my 2007 Toyota Avalon has a cassette player) so I could listen to Celebrate the News, and then realized that it is a bonus track on the Friends/20/20 CD I ordered last week. LOL! Now I have it twice! Already had Breakaway on the GV 30 year box set. Anyway - does anyone have any knowledge as to why these tracks never made it onto a standard studio album? Also - how do you feel about each song? Two fabulous songs! They were recorded after 20/20 was released to satisfy a contractual obligation as the A- and B-side of a last new 45 for Capitol (see your twofer notes ). According to MBE at Smiley regarding "Celebrate The News", "[It] wasn't on Sunflower because they changed labels. They did consider doing one last Capitol LP with this on it, but put out Live In London instead." So the same must hold for "Break Away" (I see it written everywhere as two words). According to the experts there are around thirty voices on "Break Away"! smileysmile.net/board/index.php?PHPSESSID=9cceb74b3df536d3e7c61e39e381476b&topic=27667.0
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Post by Moon Dawg on Jun 20, 2021 0:15:00 GMT
The "Break Away"/"Celebrate the News" single sort of begins the SUNFLOWER era, but it makes sense why a Capitol single would not appear on a Warner Reprise LP that came out about a year after said 45. Along the same lines, Al's version of "Cotton Fields" (released as a Capitol 45 in April 1970) was the opening cut on the U.K. version of SUNFLOWER (and the rest of Europe as well? Not sure.) but was obviously absent from SUNFLOWER in the U.S.
I wonder if they would have leased the track from Capitol for inclusion on the American SUNFLOWER had the 45 been a hit in the United States?
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