Wouldn't You Like It? Explained

Wouldn't You Like It?
Type:Album
Artist:Bay City Rollers
Cover:BCR_Wouldnt.jpg
Released:December 1975
Recorded:1975
Studio:Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Genre:Glam rock
Length:38:05
Label:Bell
Producer:Phil Wainman
Prev Title:Bay City Rollers
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Rock N'Roll Love Letter
Next Year:1976

Wouldn't You Like It? is the third studio album by the Scottish pop rock group Bay City Rollers. The LP, issued in the UK in late 1975, saw a marked change in the group's musical direction: all the songs save one were the band's own compositions. The one outside-written tune, "Give a Little Love", was a smash UK hit, and the only single released from the album. The album also included, in the form of a giant letter, a free color picture book of the individual members, with a band picture on the front.

Seven of the tracks from the album would appear on Arista Records' 1976 US-only album, Rock N'Roll Love Letter using the same cover photo and artwork.

Track listing

UK LP release, Bell Records #8002

Track listing per Discogs[1]

2004 UK CD reissue

A 2004 CD reissue on Bell included four bonus tracks: the smash hit "Saturday Night"; which had appeared on Japanese pressings of the original LP; "She'll Be Crying Over You" (originally the B-side of the UK "Give a Little Love" single); and two previously unissued tracks featuring early Roller Nobby Clark on lead vocal: "Wouldn't You Like It? (1972 version)" and "I'd Do It Again".

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1975)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[2] --access-date=2016-05-31-->3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[3] 3
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[4] 21

Year-end charts

Personnel

Production[6]

Recorded at:-

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wouldn't You Like It? (Images) . Discogs.com. 6 March 2012.
  2. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. Kent Music Report. <
  3. Book: Pennanen, Timo . 2006 . Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 . 1st . Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava . Helsinki. 978-951-1-21053-5 . 263 . Finnish .
  4. Web site: Oricon Archive - Bay City Rollers.
  5. Web site: Top Selling Albums of 1976 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart . . October 12, 2021 .
  6. Album notes