Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
"Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" | ||||
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Single by Kevin Ayers | ||||
from the album Whatevershebringswesing | ||||
B-side | "Stars" | |||
Released | 27 August 1971 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Harvest | |||
Songwriter(s) | Kevin Ayers | |||
Producer(s) | Kevin Ayers, Andrew King | |||
Kevin Ayers singles chronology | ||||
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1976 reissue | ||||
1976 reissue | ||||
"Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" was a Kevin Ayers single release. The song taken from his classic 1971 album Whatevershebringswesing (released three months later). It would be re-released as a single in 1976 when Ayers re-signed to Harvest Records. The B-side, 'Stars' was a non album track that would be later included on the 1976 compilation Odd Ditties.
Track listing
Original release
- "Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes" (Kevin Ayers)
- "Stars" (Kevin Ayers)
1976 reissue
- "Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes" (Kevin Ayers)
- "Fake Mexican Tourist Blues" (Kevin Ayers)
Personnel
- Kevin Ayers / vocals, (on "Stranger.."), vocals, bass (on "Stars")
- David Bedford / piano (on "Stranger.."), organ (on "Stars")
- Mike Oldfield / guitar (on "Stars"), guitar, bass (on "Stranger..)
- Dave Dufort / drums on "Stars"
- Tony Carr / drums on "Stranger.."
- The Ladybirds / backing vocals on "Stars"
Live version
One live version of the song was released on the album June 1, 1974.
1976 reissue
To celebrate the return of Kevin Ayers to Harvest Records, in November 1976 the label reissued his 1971 neo-rockabilly single. This time the track was accompanied by another unreleased song from the Whatevershebringswesing sessions – "Fake Mexican Tourist Blues". This humorous track involves an unscrupulous Mexican trying to pair Ayers off with various members of his family; “Hey, brother, what about my mother / She's only just forty / She's especially naughty / She knows a lot a tricks / More than the younger chicks / And if you don't like my mother / I got a very nice brother.” Both songs were included on a collection Harvest released that year of Ayers rarities and B-sides entitled Odd Ditties, which this single helped to promote.
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- Joy of a Toy (1969)
- Shooting at the Moon (1970)
- Whatevershebringswesing (1971)
- Bananamour (1973)
- The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories (1974)
- Sweet Deceiver (1975)
- Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today) (1976)
- Rainbow Takeaway (1978)
- That's What You Get Babe (1980)
- Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain (1983)
- Deià...Vu (1984)
- As Close As You Think (1986)
- Falling Up (1988)
- Still Life with Guitar (1992)
- The Unfairground (2007)
- June 1, 1974 (1974)
- Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy (1974)
- "Singing a Song in the Morning"
- "Butterfly Dance"
- "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes"
- "Oh! Wot a Dream"
- "Caribbean Moon"
- "Star"
- "Mr. Cool"
- "Money Money Money"
- "Animals"
- "Who's Still Crazy"
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