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Funny How Sweet Co Co Can Be

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Released
  
November 27, 1971

Artist
  
Brian Connolly

Producer
  
Phil Wainman

Length
  
37:14

Release date
  
27 November 1971

Label
  
RCA Records

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Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be (1971)
  
The Sweet's Biggest Hits (1972)

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop music, Bubblegum pop, Pop rock

Similar
  
Brian Connolly albums, Rock music albums

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Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be was The Sweet's debut album, released in November 1971 on RCA Records in the UK. The same year it was released (also by RCA) in West Germany under the title Funny Funny, How Sweet Co-Co Can Be with a different album cover and an extra song. This song ("Done Me Wrong All Right") was included as an extra track on the 1991 BMG Music CD reissue. It is also the first bonus track on the CD reissue released on January 24, 2005. It reached number 1 in Finland.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn except where noted.

  1. "Co-Co" – 3:14
  2. "Chop Chop" – 3:00
  3. "Reflections" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 2:52
  4. "Honeysuckle Love" (Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott, Mick Tucker) – 2:55
  5. "Santa Monica Sunshine" – 3:20
  6. "Daydream" (John Sebastian) – 3:13
  7. "Funny Funny" – 2:46
  8. "Tom Tom Turnaround" – 4:07
  9. "Jeanie" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 2:58
  10. "Sunny Sleeps Late" – 2:58
  11. "Spotlight" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 2:47
  12. "Done Me Wrong All Right" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 2:57 (missing on some original editions - bonus track on all CD editions of the album)

Bonus tracks on 2005 reissue

  1. "Be with You Soon" (out-take) (Scott) – 3:34
  2. "You're Not Wrong for Loving Me" (single B-side) (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 2:44
  3. "Alexander Graham Bell" (single A-side) – 2:53
  4. "Poppa Joe" (single A-side) – 3:07
  5. "Little Willy" (single A-side) – 3:10
  6. "Man from Mecca" (single B-side) (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 2:45
  7. "Wig-Wam Bam" (single A-side) – 3:01
  8. "New York Connection" (single B-side) (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 4:01
  9. "Paperback Writer" (Japanese single A-side, b/w "Chop Chop") (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:18 (not included on 2015 reissue)
  10. "Lucille / Great Balls of Fire" (BBC session) (Al Collins, Little Richard / Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer) – 2:47 (not included on 2015 reissue)

Disc 2 of 2015 reissue

  1. "Slow Motion" (1st single A-side Fontana, 1968) (Watkins)
  2. "It's Lonely Out There" (1st single B-side) (Siegel, Jay)
  3. "Lollipop Man" (2nd single A-side Pharlophone, 1969) (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood)
  4. "Time" (2nd single B-side) (Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Mick Stewart, Mick Tucker)
  5. "All You'll Ever Get from Me" (3rd single A-side Pharlophone, 1969) (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway)
  6. "The Juicer" (3rd single B-side) (Mick Stewart)
  7. "Get on the Line" (4th single A-side Pharlophone, 1970) (Jeff Barry, Andy Kim)
  8. "Mr. McGallagher" (4th single B-side) (Mick Stewart)

Personnel

  • Brian Connolly — lead vocals (except as noted)
  • Steve Priest — bass guitar (except 1, 7, 15, 16, 17), lead vocals (track 2), backing vocals
  • Andy Scott — guitars (except 1, 7, 15, 16, 17), lead vocals (track 13), backing vocals
  • Mick Tucker — drums (except 1, 7, 15, 16, 17), backing vocals
  • Frank Torpey — guitar (disc 2, tracks 1, 2)
  • Mick Stewart — guitar (disc 2, tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
    • Additional personnel
  • John Roberts — bass (tracks 1, 7, 15, 16, 17)
  • Phil Wainman — drums, percussion (tracks 1, 7, 15, 16, 17), production
  • Pip Williams — guitar (tracks 1, 7, 15, 16, 17), arrangement (track 3)

    • Songs

    1Co-Co3:11
    2Chop Chop2:57
    3Reflections2:52

    References

    Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be Wikipedia
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