Baggy Trousers, UK, 1980

Format: 7″
Release date: 5/9/1980
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: BUY 84
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 3
Release notes: –

Tracks:
Baggy Trousers
The Business

Spent 20 weeks in the top 75 (the most for any Madness single) and peaked at no.3 for 2 weeks in October 1980 behind The Police’s ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ and Ottawan’s ‘D.I.S.C.O.’
Certified Gold (400,000) in November 1980.

‘Baggy Trousers’ master page

Sleeve

Glossy card sleeve

Paper sleeve

Labels

Variant 1

Most common CBS green label

Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ridge/ring, 26mm ring

Label profile: 44mm lip, 38mm hole

Mastered by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, pressed at CBS, Aston Clinton

Runouts – combination of A1, A2 and B1, B2:

A-Side: BUY-84-A1 WE HAVE LIFT-OFF ARUN / BUY-84-A2 WE HAVE LIFT-OFF ARUN

B-Side: BUY-84-B1 WIND ME UP / BUY-84-B2 WIND ME UP

Variant 2

Lyntone green label, not very common

Label profile: slight slope from 65mm to 49mm, 33mm ring

Mastered by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, plated by Maxwell Anandappa and pressed at Lyntone, Holloway, London

Runouts:

A-Side: BUY-84-A-3 ARUN MAX LYN-8939-IM / B-Side: BUY-84-B-3 LYN-8940-IM MAX

Variant 3

CBS blue label with M. Barson credit, fairly common. I’ve never seen a large jukebox hole version.

Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ridge/ring, 26mm ring

Mastered by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, pressed at CBS, Aston Clinton

Runouts – combination of A1, A2 and B1, B2:

A-Side: BUY-84-A1 WE HAVE LIFT-OFF ARUN / BUY-84-A2 WE HAVE LIFT-OFF ARUN

B-Side: BUY-84-B1 WIND ME UP / BUY-84-B2 WIND ME UP

Variant 4

CBS blue label without M. Barson credit; quite rare and collectable.

Mike Barson had been credited as co-songwriter on Baggy Trousers, much to the financial distress of Chris Foreman who co-wrote the song with Suggs, and Mike was eventually removed on these blue labels and the green and white ones below.

For some reason the 2010 Absolutely 2CD, A Guided Tour Of Madness box set, 2014’s The Very Best Of 2CD, and the Full House compilation credit all 7 members.