Bay City Rollers (album) explained

Bay City Rollers
Type:compilation
Artist:Bay City Rollers
Cover:BayCityRollersLP.jpg
Released:September 1975
Recorded:1973, 1974, 1975
Genre:Bubblegum
Label:Arista
Producer:Phil Coulter, Bill Martin, Phil Wainman
Prev Title:Once Upon a Star
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Wouldn't You Like It
Next Year:1975

Bay City Rollers, released in late 1975, was the first full-length album by Scotland's Bay City Rollers to be issued in the US and Canada. The compilation, which hit No. 1 in the RPM Canadian album chart on 7 February 1976[1] and reached as high as No. 20 on the US album chart, included the US and Canadian

  1. 1 hit
single "Saturday Night".[2]

The LP contained tracks culled mostly from the band's first three UK-only albums: 5 songs from Rollin, 4 songs from Once Upon a Star and 1 song from Wouldn't You Like It – along with 1 brand new song. In addition, this album contains the US mix of "Summerlove Sensation" (a much fuller mix with strings), which finally became available on CD on the US release "Definitive Collection".

Track listing

  1. "Give a Little Love" (Johnny Goodison, Phil Wainman)
  2. "Bye Bye Baby" (Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio)
  3. "Shang-a-Lang" (Bill Martin, Phil Coulter)
  4. "Marlena" (Eric Faulkner, Les McKeown, Stuart Wood)
  5. "Let's Go (A Huggin' And A Kissin' In The Moonlight)" (Goodison, Wainman)
  6. "Be My Baby" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector)
  7. "Summerlove Sensation" (Martin, Coulter)
  8. "Remember (Sha-La-La-La)" (Martin, Coulter)
  9. "Saturday Night" (Martin, Coulter)
  10. "My Teenage Heart" (Faulkner, Wood)
  11. "Keep on Dancing" (Allen Jones, Willie David Young)

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1976)Position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[3] 4
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[4] 20
US Billboard 200[5] 65

Personnel

References

  1. Web site: Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 4 January 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015035127/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6471a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 . 15 October 2012 . dead .
  2. Web site: Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 4 January 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015035031/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6474a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 . 15 October 2012 . dead .
  3. Web site: Top 100 Albums of '76 . . . 12 October 2021 .
  4. Web site: Top Selling Albums of 1976 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart . . 12 October 2021 .
  5. Web site: Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1976. Billboard. 25 September 2021.