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"Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" | ||||
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Single by Kevin Ayers | ||||
from the album Whatevershebringswesing | ||||
B-side | "Stars" | |||
Released | 27 August 1971 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Harvest | |||
Songwriter(s) | Kevin Ayers | |||
Producer(s) | Kevin Ayers, Andrew King | |||
Kevin Ayers singles chronology | ||||
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1976 reissue | ||||
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"Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" was a Kevin Ayers single release. [1] The song was included on his classic 1971 album Whatevershebringswesing , released three months later. It would be re-released as a single in 1976 when Ayers re-signed to Harvest Records. [1] The B-side, "Stars", was a non album track that would be later included on the 1976 compilation Odd Ditties. [2]
Original release
1976 reissue
One live version of the song was released on the album June 1, 1974 . [3]
To celebrate the return of Kevin Ayers to Harvest Records, in November 1976 the label reissued his 1971 neo-rockabilly single. This time the track was accompanied by another unreleased song from the Whatevershebringswesing sessions – "Fake Mexican Tourist Blues". This humorous track involves an unscrupulous Mexican trying to pair Ayers off with various members of his family; "Hey, brother, what about my mother / She's only just forty / She's especially naughty / She knows a lot a tricks / More than the younger chicks / And if you don't like my mother / I got a very nice brother." Both songs were included on a collection Harvest released that year of Ayers rarities and B-sides entitled Odd Ditties, which this single helped to promote.