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Released
  
July 1971

So Long, Bannatyne (1971)
  
Rockin' (1972)

Release date
  
July 1971

Label
  
RCA Victor

Length
  
47:38

Artist
  
The Guess Who

Producer
  
Jack Richardson

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
1971 at RCA's Mid-America Recording Center, Chicago, Illinois

Similar
  
The Guess Who albums, Rock music albums

Rain dance by the guess who


So Long, Bannatyne is the ninth studio album by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who.

Contents

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Background

The album covers and the title track illustrate a transition in band member Kurt Winter's life.

Bannatyne Avenue is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the home city of The Guess Who. The front of the album cover for the vinyl LP has the words "So Long, Bannatyne" above a red Chevy with a Manitoba licence plate and the band dressed casually. In the background there is a building labelled "Bannatyne Apartments". On the back of the album cover is the red Chevy again, but in a residential high class neighborhood with the band dressed in suits and the words "Hello My Chevrier Home". The song lyrics include the line:

So long Bannatyne, hello my Chevrier home.

Track listing

  • All songs written by Burton Cummings/Kurt Winter except noted.
    1. "Rain Dance" - 2:45
    2. "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl" (Cummings) - 3:13
    3. "Goin' a Little Crazy" - 6:59
    4. "Fiddlin'" - 1:06
    5. "Pain Train" - 3:45
    6. "One Divided" (Greg Leskiw) - 2:38
    7. "Grey Day" (Leskiw) - 4:16
    8. "Life in the Bloodstream" (Cummings) - 3:10
    9. "One Man Army" - 3:55
    10. "Sour Suite" (Cummings) - 4:08
    11. "So Long, Bannatyne" - 5:55
    Bonus Tracks (2010 Iconoclassic CD Release)
    1. "Albert Flasher" (Cummings)
    2. "Broken"

    8-Track

  • The 8-track release featured a different ordering of tracks:
    1. "Life in the Bloodstream"
    2. "Fiddlin'"
    3. "So Long, Bannatyne"
    4. "Rain Dance"
    5. "Sour Suite"
    6. "Pain Train"
    7. "One Divided"
    8. "One Man Army"
    9. "Grey Day"
    10. "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl"
    11. "Goin' a Little Crazy"

    Personnel

  • Burton Cummings - piano, lead vocals, saxophone
  • Greg Leskiw - guitar, backing vocals, banjo
  • Kurt Winter - guitar, backing vocals
  • Jim Kale - bass
  • Garry Peterson - drums, backing vocals

    • Charts

    Album

    Singles

    Songs

    1Rain Dance2:45
    2She Might Have Been a Nice Girl3:13
    3Goin' a Little Crazy6:59

    References

    So Long, Bannatyne Wikipedia
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