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Well, Did You Evah?

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  1. This was on the flip side of the .45 record with Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby singing True Love, on their boat.

    Whew! When I grow up…. …I thought.

    I love the song. ….Lady in Red

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  2. Watching Ronan Farrow, supposedly Woody Allen’s little boy, is funny.

    Ronan looks like zero per cent Mia and one hundred per cent Frank Sinatra.

    I assume the guy knows that? ….Lady in Red

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  3. “This was on the flip side of the .45 record with Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby singing True Love, on their boat.”

    45 singles!

    Record company: OK, we know this one will sell (not as sure as thought, sometimes). How about a small record with that one song on it? We’ll find something to put on the flip side

    Sometimes the B side is the one with legs.

    The Zombies came out with a 45 that had “I love you” for the B side. Will have to look up what A side was.

    People! covered it in `68 and that was the version I was familiar with.

    As an 11 y.o. I was trying to tell a friend about it and was struggling to remember the name of the song while talking in the hall at elementary – I blurted out I LOVE YOU !, when it finally came to me. Yes, I was stupid enough to forget the most repeated words in the song was the title.

    That was an interesting moment in a school hall, as a kid, with dozens of students stopping and wondering who I loved so much that I would say it so loudly and with urgency in public.

    That was a time in my life I actually turned red from blushing. Yee

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  4. Record companies would always try to put what they knew (or thought they knew) was a good song on Side A of a 45 RPM record, and some crap song by the same singer on side B. That way they didn’t “give away” another hit song on the B side. Thus they could sell more records. The problem for RCA when it came to Elvis is that he was so popular that no matter what they put on the B side, it became a hit too. Drove ’em crazy. It was pretty much the same way for The Beatles, IIRC.

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