| So Long, Bannatyne | ||||
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| Released | July 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Studio | RCA's Mid-America Recording Center, Chicago, Illinois | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 41:48 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Jack Richardson | |||
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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.
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 Chevy 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]
All songs written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter except where noted.
Side one
Side two
Bonus Tracks (2010 Iconoclassic CD Release)
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"
| Chart (1971) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [4] | 10 |
| US Billboard 200 [5] | 52 |
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"Sour Suite" is a song written by Burton Cummings and performed by The Guess Who. It reached #12 in Canada and #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. The song was featured on their 1971 album, So Long, Bannatyne. Cummings said it took between two and three days to write the song. Its lyric about being "back in 46201" refers to a zip code for Indianapolis. Cummings took it from the return address of a letter sent to him by a female fan.
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