ELVIS COSTELLO CAN'T STAND UP 7" 2 TONE MINT
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ELVIS COSTELLO CAN'T STAND UP 7" ULTRA RARE 2 TONE MINT ELVIS COSTELLO I CAN'T STAND UP FOR FALLIN DOWN B/W GIRLS TALK. ULTRA RARE 2 TONE 7" 45 RPM. MINT, UNPLAYED CONDITION. 1980.
According to Record Collector (No 91): " Costello had been signed to Radar in 1978, via a licensing deal from Riviera Global Productions. Radar collapsed towards the end of 1979, and so Elvis's manager Jake Riviera alighted upon the Specials' 2-Tone label as an ideal venue for a holding operation - a one-off single - until Elvis sorted out a deal for the Get Happy!! album. WEA, who had distributed Radar, were less than delighted: they felt they had a stake in Costello's career by virtue of the success of the records they had distributed for him, and so they obtained a court injunction to stop the 2-Tone single being sold.
By March '80, the situation was clarified: F-Beat was set up by Riviera as an independent company, but WEA continued to distribute their records. In the meantime, there were several thousand 2-Tone singles to dispose of. These were handed out free to the audience at a London's Rainbow Theatre gig. Several months later, Riviera pressed up a few thousand more of the 2-Tone singles, and these were given away at London and US gigs".
Jerry Dammers offers a slightly different take on the story behind this single: “Jake Riviera cheekily printed up a few thousand Elvis Costello singles on the 2 tone label, obviously thinking that I would be delighted to have such a major star on the label, but I was having none of it, 2 Tone being a strictly ska at that time. So Elvis was forced to give these singles away free at his gigs (now collector’s items, of course). (Record Collector magazine No 363)
THESE SINGLES WERE SOLD IN THE U.S. DURING THE 1981 ELVIS COSTELLO - SQUEEZE TRUST TOUR. I PURCHASED SEVERAL AT THE CAPITOL THEATER IN PASSAIC, NJ. THEY WERE SOLD AT THE OFFICIAL CONCESSION STAND AT EVERY GIG ON THE U.S. TOUR. OTHERWISE, THEY WERE VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN. HAVE AT IT - THIS ONE'S RARE AS CAN BE AND IN ABSOLUTELY PERFECT CONDITION. EVEN THE 2 TONE SLEEVE IS IN NEAR PERFECT CONDITION - NO RIPS, TEARS OR FOLDS.
AFTER PREVIOUSLY SELLING 3 OF THESE, THIS WILL BE MY LAST COPY OFFERED FOR SALE.
335 (GS 5.5 (335))
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