Modern Pop Classics

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"Modern Pop Classics"
Single by Maureen Tucker and Friends / Count Viglione & Lady Carolyn
A-side "I'm Sticking With You" (Maureen Tucker & Friends)
B-side "Of Yesterday" (Count Viglione & Lady Carolyn)
Released1980
RecordedFebruary 24, 1974 at Music Designers, Boston, New York (Side One)
Genre Alternative pop
Length2:13 (A) / 2:45 (B)
Label Varulven
Songwriter(s) Lou Reed (A) / Joseph Allen Viglione (B)
Maureen Tucker singles chronology
"Modern Pop Classics"
(1980)
""Around and Around" / Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"
(1981)

Modern Pop Classics is a 1980 split single featuring the songs "I'm Sticking With You" by Maureen Tucker & Friends and "Of Yesterday" by Count Viglione & Lady Carolyn. [1]

Contents

Track listing

Side 1:
"I'm Sticking With You" – 2:13
Side 2:
"Of Yesterday" – 2:45

Personnel

Side One

Jonathan Richman American singer

Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, acoustic and electric, backing. Currently, he plays only acoustic to protect his hearing. He is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected and childlike outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, is influenced by music from around the world.

Willie Alexander singer and keyboard player

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Walter Powers III is an American bass guitarist. He was a member of the Velvet Underground from late 1970 until late 1971.

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References

  1. Modern Pop Classics at AllMusic Retrieved on 14 June 2016.