Wouldn't You Like It?

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Wouldn't You Like It?
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1975
Recorded1975
Studio Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Genre Glam rock
Label Bell
Producer Phil Wainman
Bay City Rollers chronology
Bay City Rollers
(1975)
Wouldn't You Like It?
(1975)
Rock N'Roll Love Letter
(1976)
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Wouldn't You Like It? is the third studio album by the Scottish pop rock group Bay City Rollers. The LP, issued in the UK in late 1975, saw a marked change in the group's musical direction: all the songs save one were the band's own compositions. The one outside-written tune, "Give a Little Love", was a smash UK hit, and the only single released from the album. The album also included, in the form of a giant letter, a free color picture book of the individual members, with a band picture on the front.

Contents

Seven of the tracks from the album would appear on Arista Records' 1976 US-only album, Rock N'Roll Love Letter using the same cover photo and artwork.

Track listing

UK LP release, Bell Records #8002

All tracks are written by Eric Faulkner/Stuart "Woody" Wood except where noted

Side one
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."I Only Wanna Dance With You" Les McKeown 2:59
2."Don't Stop the Music"McKeown2:49
3."Shanghai'd in Love"Faulkner, Wood3:29
4."Love Is..."McKeown2:38
5."Maybe I'm a Fool to Love You"McKeown3:55
6."Too Young to Rock & Roll"McKeown2:17
Side two
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Give a Little Love" (John Goodison/Phil Wainman)McKeown3:28
2."Wouldn't You Like It?"McKeown3:14
3."Here Comes That Feeling Again" Alan Longmuir 3:41
4."Lovely to See You"McKeown3:57
5."Eagles Fly"McKeown3:04
6."Derek's End Piece"Instrumental, Spoken Outro: Derek Longmuir 2:34

Track listing per Discogs [2]

2004 UK CD reissue

A 2004 CD reissue on Bell included four bonus tracks: the smash hit "Saturday Night"; which had appeared on Japanese pressings of the original LP; "She'll Be Crying Over You" (originally the B-side of the UK "Give a Little Love" single); and two previously unissued tracks featuring early Roller Nobby Clark on lead vocal: "Wouldn't You Like It? (1972 version)" and "I'd Do It Again".

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  13. Album notes