Rollin' (Bay City Rollers album)

Rollin', released in 1974, was the first full-length album by Scotland's Bay City Rollers. The album included three British chart hits ("Remember", "Shang-a-Lang", "Summerlove Sensation") and the debut of "Saturday Night", never a British hit yet a No. 1 smash in America, later.

Rollin'
Studio album by
Bay City Rollers
ReleasedOctober 1974
Recorded1973, 1974
GenrePop
Length36:56
LabelBell
ProducerPhil Coulter, Bill Martin
Bay City Rollers chronology
Rollin'
(1974)		 Once Upon a Star
(1975)
Singles from Rollin'
  1. "Remember (Sha-La-La-La)"
    Released: 1974
  2. "Shang-a-Lang"
    Released: 1974
  3. "Summerlove Sensation"
    Released: 1974
  4. "Saturday Night"
    Released: August 1975
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Džuboksmixed[2]

While the album itself was not issued in America, several of the songs would later appear on the band's self-titled 1975 U.S. debut.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Shang-a-Lang" (Phil Coulter, Bill Martin) – 3:07
  2. "Give It to Me Now" (Coulter, Martin) – 3:48
  3. "Angel Angel" (Eric Faulkner, Stuart "Woody" Wood) – 2:27
  4. "Be My Baby" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 3:27
  5. "Just a Little Love" (Faulkner, Wood) – 2:57
  6. "Remember (Sha-La-La-La)" (Coulter, Martin) – 2:33

Side two
  1. "Saturday Night" (Coulter, Martin) – 2:57
  2. "Ain't It Strange" (Faulkner, Wood, Les McKeown) – 2:10
  3. "Please Stay" (Burt Bacharach, Bob Hilliard) – 3:54
  4. "Jenny Gotta Dance" (Coulter, Martin) – 3:06
  5. "There Goes My Baby" (Faulkner, Wood) – 3:18
  6. "Summerlove Sensation" (Coulter, Martin) – 3:12

2004 UK reissue

A 2004 CD reissue on Bell included four bonus tracks: "Are You Ready for That Rock and Roll" (the original B-side of the "Shang-a-Lang" single); "Bringing Back the Good Times" (B-side of "Summerlove Sensation"); "Bye Bye Barbara" (B-side of "Remember"); and "Hey C.B." (B-side of "Saturday Night"). Strange, then, that it didn't include the original single versions of "Saturday Night" and "Remember" as well, which both featured different (first) lead vocalist Nobby Clark. And yet another credible contender for an extra track would be the U.S. single and album version of "Summerlove Sensation" (w/strings) – not to mention final Martin/Coulter-penned 45 "All of Me Loves All of You" / "The Bump", which, however, appeared as an extra material on the "Once Upon a Star" CD issue.

Personnel

Musicians

Production[3]

  • Phil Coulter: arrangement and production
  • Bill Martin: production

Charts
Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[4] 8
Canadian Albums (RPM)[5] 29
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[6] 18
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[7] 37
New Zealand Albums (RIANZ)[8] 27
UK Albums (OCC)[9] 1
Zimbabwean Albums (ZIMA)[10] 15

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Bay City Rollers – Rollin'". Džuboks (in Serbian). Gornji Milanovac: Dečje novine (5 (second series)): 23.
  3. Publishing information at discogs
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (doc)|format= requires |url= (help). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. "RPM: Bay City Rollers (albums)". RPM Magazine. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  6. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 263. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  7. "Oricon Archive - Bay City Rollers".
  8. "Bay City Rollers - Rollin' - hitparade.ch".
  9. "BAY CITY ROLLERS | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company".
    • Zimbabwe. Kimberley, C. Zimbabwe: albums chart book. Harare: C. Kimberley, 2000
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