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    MisHits of the Sixties Volume 3: The 'B' Sides
    MisHits of the Sixties Volume 3: The 'B' Sides
    MisHits of the Sixties Volume 3: The 'B' Sides
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    MisHits of the Sixties Volume 3: The 'B' Sides

    By Stephen E Pennykid

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    This volume, the third in the MisHits of the Sixties series, deals with ‘B’ sides which in my opinion could easily have been released as ‘A’ sides. As in the two previous volumes, facts about these selections are given as well as personal experiences and observations.

    In the early days of my record collecting, ‘B’ sides were very important to me. Having made few purchases, they doubled my choice of listening. Among the tracks featured are some that are instantly recognisable, but others which may appear somewhat obscure.

    Give them a listen and see what YOU think.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherS & S P Publishing
    Release dateJan 9, 2016
    ISBN9781311274755
    MisHits of the Sixties Volume 3: The 'B' Sides
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    Stephen E Pennykid

    Born in 1952, Steve Pennykid grew up on a Leicester council estate built to accommodate new families after the war and the baby boom of the 50's and 60's. Steve was an only child and although he had plenty of friends with whom to play football on the green outside his home, he had time on his hands to develop his love of the written word, and as a child always had something to read whether it be a football annual at Christmas, a thrilling children's story or a Look and Learn comic. Writing though did not come until much later. Steve took early retirement in 2005, which gave him a few years to achieve a number of goals he set himself to do before he was 60. One of these was to write a short story and try to get it published. This was a big ask as he had never written anything before. However, it was achieved in 2010 when a local story-writing competition gave him the opportunity. By then he had written one story – The News from Spain. He began to amend this story to suit the framework required for the competition but it soon became a completely different tale – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. These are both gentle romances but Steve's writing has now become more eclectic with a number of other tales including two detective stories, from his Chief Inspector Robert Casey series, two children's short stories and a non-fiction title under his belt. Steve also loves music and you will undoubtedly notice a common theme in many of his stories of titles and chapters containing the names of songs, particularly those from the 60's. His passion for music of this era encouraged him to write his own personal favourite, the non-fiction "MisHits of the Sixties". Steve lives in Loughborough and is married with two sons, a daughter-in-law and two delightful granddaughters.

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      MisHits of the Sixties Volume 3 - Stephen E Pennykid

      MisHits of the Sixties

      Volume 3 - The ‘B’ Sides

      by Stephen E Pennykid

      Title

      by Stephen E Pennykid

      Copyright 2016 by Stephen E Pennykid

      Smashwords Edition

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is dedicated to Derrick Gordon. A good friend and kindred spirit for his love of 60’s music.

      Also, with thanks to my wife Sue for her unstinting devotion in the editing and publishing of this volume.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      20 - 11

      10 - 2

      And so to my No 1…

      MisHits (The ‘B’ Sides) Top 20

      Outro

      About the Author

      By the Same Author

      Other Titles Published by SSP Publishing

      Children’s Titles

      Introduction

      In this, the third instalment of my series, I will be looking at my top twenty ‘B’ sides of sixties singles that in my opinion were worthy of release as ‘A’ sides and which may have become hits in their own right.

      Listening to them now I am very aware that the majority were records of their time and would probably sink without a trace nowadays. However, whenever I play these tracks now, albeit on a CD player or my Brennan JB7 hard disk instead of a record player, I still enjoy the music as much as I did then.

      There are a number of artists that have already featured in the first two volumes of MisHits of the Sixties and even a couple where both the A and ‘B’ side are now included in the series. I have always found from the very earliest days of my record buying, that there are certainly instances where, upon playing the ‘B’ side of a single purchased, I thought the ‘B’ side either as good as the ‘A’ side or even better.

      In two cases the ‘B’ sides became a hit in their own right: one when it was released as the ‘A’ side in America and the other when recorded by a different artist. I take this as a sign that my theory is not wholly unsupportable. You will no doubt have different opinions to mine of this selection, but this is my Top Twenty.

      No’s 20 - 11

      No 20

      Cat Stevens

      School Is Out

      ‘A’ Side: I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun

      Although I bought this record for the ‘A’ side I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun, following a few plays of both sides I found that I much preferred the flip side School Is Out. This song, although not as obviously commercial, had more depth to

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