Bread & Butter (album)

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Bread & Butter
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Studio album by
Released 1964
Genre Pop rock
Length26:20
Label Hickory 120
The Newbeats chronology
Bread & Butter
(1964)
Big Beat Sounds by The Newbeats
(1965)
Singles from Bread & Butter
  1. "Bread and Butter"/"Tough Little Buggy"
    Released: July 1964
  2. "Everything's Alright"/"Pink Dally Rue"
    Released: October 1964
  3. "So Fine"/"Top Secret"
    Released: 1967
  4. "Thou Shalt Not Steal"/"Great Balls of Fire"
    Released: June 1969
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Bread & Butter is the debut album by The Newbeats and was released in 1964. It reached #56 on the Billboard 200. [3]

Contents

Four singles were released from the album with three of the singles charting in the United States: "Bread and Butter" reached #2, [4] "Everything's Alright" reached #16, [5] and "Thou Shalt Not Steal" reached #128. [6]

Track listing

  1. "Bread and Butter" – 1:58 (Larry Parks/Jay Turnbow)
  2. "Bye Bye Love" – 2:53 (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant)
  3. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" – 2:05 (Rudy Clark)
  4. "There Oughta Be a Law (Bout the Stuff I Saw)" – 2:20 (Louis "Dean" Mathias/Marcus F. Mathis/Tress Redmon)
  5. "So Fine" – 2:25 (Johnny Otis)
  6. "Pink Dally Rue" – 1:57 (Don Gant/Norris Wilson)
  7. "Everything's Alright" – 2:10 (John D. Loudermilk)
  8. "A Patent on Love" – 2:03 (Larry Henley)
  9. "I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)" – 2:17 (Ike Turner)
  10. "Tough Little Buggy" – 2:23 (Dave Allen)
  11. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" – 1:59 (Loudermilk)
  12. "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" – 1:50 (Jimmy Reed)

Charts

Chart (1964)Peak
position
Billboard Top LPs56
Singles
YearSingleChartPosition
1964"Bread and Butter"Billboard Hot 1002
UK Singles Chart 15
Australia 8
Canada 1
"Everything's Alright"Billboard Hot 10016
Australia53
Canada6
1969"Thou Shalt Not Steal"Billboard Hot 100128

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References

  1. Bread & Butter at AllMusic
  2. Jopling, Norman (7 November 1964). "The Newbeats: Bread & Butter" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 191. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  3. The Newbeats, Bread & Butter Retrieved April 28, 2015
  4. The Newbeats, "Bread and Butter" US Chart Position Retrieved April 28, 2015
  5. The Newbeats, "Everything's Alright" US Chart Position Retrieved April 28, 2015
  6. The Newbeats, "Thou Shalt Not Steal" US Chart Position Retrieved April 28, 2015