2-TONE TT7 ELVIS COSTELLO: I CAN'T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN - PAPER LABEL
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2-TONETT7 ELVIS COSTELLO: I CAN'T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN / GIRLS TALK - PAPERLABEL
7"VINYL: ORIGINAL 2-TONE PAPER SLEEVE
RELEASED:1980
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Accordingto Record Collector (No 91): " Costello had been signed to Radar in 1978,via a licensing deal from Riviera Global Productions. Radar collapsed towardsthe end of 1979, and so Elvis's manager Jake Riviera alighted upon theSpecials' 2-Tone label as an ideal venue for a holding operation - a one-offsingle - until Elvis sorted out a deal for the Get Happy!! album. WEA, who haddistributed Radar, were less than delighted: they felt they had a stake inCostello's career by virtue of the success of the records they had distributedfor him, and so they obtained a court injunction to stop the 2-Tone singlebeing sold.
By March'80, the situation was clarified: F-Beat was set up by Riviera as anindependent company, but WEA continued to distribute their records. In themeantime, there were several thousand 2-Tone singles to dispose of. These werehanded out free to the audience at a London's Rainbow Theatre gig. Severalmonths later, Riviera pressed up a few thousand more of the 2-Tone singles, andthese were given away at London and US gigs".
JerryDammers offers a slightly different take on the story behind this single:"Jake Riviera cheekily printed up a few thousand Elvis Costello singles onthe 2 tone label, obviously thinking that I would be delighted to have such amajor star on the label, but I was having none of it, 2 Tone being a strictlyska at that time. So Elvis was forced to give these singles away free at hisgigs (now collector's items, of course). (Record Collector magazine No 363)
Of the 2 versions pressed one simply has CHSTT7on the run out groove and the other has both the F-Beat number XX 1 and 2separate 2 Tone numbers, CHSTT7 and CHSTT8. The latter (CHSTT8) is crossed out.Both versions are highly sought after often commanding a high price. And inkeeping with 2 Tone tradition the A side of the single was a cover version.This time it was the old Sam and Dave soul number that got the 2 Tonetreatment.
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