So Long, Bannatyne

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So Long, Bannatyne
So Long Bannatyne by The Guess Who.jpg
Studio album by
The Guess Who
ReleasedJuly 1971
Recorded1971
StudioRCA's Mid-America Recording Center, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Rock
Length41:48
Label RCA Victor
Producer Jack Richardson
The Guess Who chronology
The Best of The Guess Who
(1971)		So Long, Bannatyne
(1971)		 Rockin'
(1972)
Singles from So Long, Bannatyne
  1. "Rain Dance"
    Released: July 1971
  2. "Sour Suite"
    Released: October 1971
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So Long, Bannatyne is the eighth studio album by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who, released in 1971 by RCA Records.

Contents

Background

The album's title track includes the words:

So long Bannatyne, hello my Chevrier home.

The album's packaging and title track illustrate a transition in the life of Guess Who guitarist Kurt Winter, moving from the city to the suburbs. The front cover has the words "So Long, Bannatyne" and shows the band dressed casually around a red Chevrolet with a Manitoba license plate in front of The Bannatyne Apartments (located at 545 Bannatyne Avenue in the band's hometown of Winnipeg). The back cover has the words "Hello, My Chevrier Home" and shows the band now dressed more formally with the same red Chevrolet in the back of a home located on Chevrier Boulevard, about 5 miles from downtown Winnipeg.

In 2015 the Bannatyne Apartments building, while vacant, was damaged by fire. [2]

Track listing

All songs written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Rain Dance" – 2:45
  2. "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl" (Cummings) – 3:13
  3. "Goin' a Little Crazy" – 6:59
  4. "Fiddlin'" – 1:06
  5. "Pain Train" – 3:45
  6. "One Divided" (Greg Leskiw) – 2:38

Side two

  2. "Grey Day" (Leskiw) – 4:16
  3. "Life in the Bloodstream" (Cummings) – 3:10
  4. "One Man Army" – 3:55
  5. "Sour Suite" (Cummings) – 4:08
  6. "So Long, Bannatyne" – 5:55

Bonus Tracks (2010 Iconoclassic CD Release)

  2. "Albert Flasher" (Cummings) – 3:06
  3. "Broken" – 2:44

8-Track

Program 1: "Life in the Bloodstream", "Fiddlin'", "So Long, Bannatyne"

Program 2: "Rain Dance", "Sour Suite", "Pain Train"

Program 3: "One Divided", "One Man Army", "Grey Day"

Program 4: "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl", "Goin' a Little Crazy"

Personnel

Personnel taken from So Long, Bannatyne liner notes. [3]

The Guess Who
Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (1971)Peak
position
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [4] 10
US Billboard 200 [5] 52

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "So Long, Bannatyne: building featured on Guess Who album burns". Global News. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  3. ↑ So Long, Bannatyne (Album liner notes). The Guess Who. 1971.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ↑ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 7534". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  5. ↑ "The Guess Who Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 8, 2023.


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