Description
All of 49th Parallel’s singles and b-sides on vinyl for the first time since their initial pressings back in 1966-68 + rare alternates!
The band’s first single, ‘All Your Love’, was recorded in 1966 as the Shades of Blond, and was previously only available on a staggeringly rare EP featuring Calgary bands, released by International Master Discovery Records. The group’s first two singles, ‘Laborer’/’You Do Things’ (1967), and ‘She Says’ b/w ‘Citizen Freak’ (1968), are prime pieces of pouting Prairie punk: four hard-edged garage punk tracks, tough, and thick with fuzz guitar and a defiant sneer.
The next single, ‘Blue Bonnie Blue’ b/w ’Missouri’ appeared in late spring of 1968. In the spring of 1969, the beautiful ‘Twilight Woman,’ a lovely song that sounds like a poppier version of what bands like Tomorrow were doing in England, b/w ‘Close the Barn Door,’ zoomed up the charts across Canada and parts of the USA. Both ‘Twilight Woman’ and the hit follow-up, ‘Now That I’m A Man’ b/w (Come On Little Child &) Talk To Me are melodic pop/psych of the purest and finest kind. One more post-LP single and a couple of rare tracks round out the story. Fifteen tracks all told on this, the ultimate 49th Parallel vinyl collection.
Side A:
as Shades of Blond:
01. All Your Love (2:10)
as 49th Parallel:
02. Laborer (2:25) RCA Victor – 57-3428 A-side
03. You Do Things (2:23) RCA Victor – 57-3428 B-side
04. She Says (1:57) RCA Victor – 57-3447 – B-side
05. Citizen Freak (1:36) RCA Victor – 57-3447 – A-side
06. Blue Bonnie Blue (2:30) Venture VE-612X – A-side
07. Missouri (single mix) (2:20) Venture VE-612X – B-side
08. Twilight Woman (2:23) Maverick MA-1004 – A-side
09. Close The Barn Door (3:11) Maverick MA-1004 – B-side
Side B:
01. Now That I’m A Man (2:22) Maverick MAS-1011 – A-side
02. (Come On Little Child &) Talk To Me (3:00) Maverick MAS-1011 – B-side
03. Up To No Good (2:19)
04. I Need You (4:21) Barry – B. 3518X – A-side
05. Goodtime Baby (2:46) Barry – B. 3518X – B-side
06. Blue Bonnie Blue (alternate single mix) (2:24)
GENRE: Pop/Psych/Fuzz/Punk
BARCODE: 778578314415
RELEASE DATE: 13/11/2026
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