Format: 7″
Release date: 21/12/1979
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: BUY 62
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 3 (no. 1 on NME and Melody Maker charts for 1 week)
Release notes: –
Tracks:
My Girl
Stepping Into Line
Spent 10 weeks in the top 75 (5 in the top ten), peaking at no.3 for 2 weeks in January 1980, behind Pretenders’ ‘Brass in Pocket’ (both weeks) and Billy Preston & Syreeta’s ‘With You I’m Born Again’ and then The Special AKA Live EP featuring ‘Too Much Too Young’.
Certified Silver (200,000) in January 1980.
Sleeve
Glossy card sleeve, top opening, wide curve cut-out
Labels
All lacquers cut by Steve ‘SA’ Angel at Trident Studios
Variant 1
Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ridge, 25mm ring
Jukebox large hole version of variant 1
Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton
Variant 2
Label profile: 54mm lip, slope to 44mm, 32mm ring
Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton
Variant 3
Label profile: slope from 61mm to 46mm, 32mm ridge, 25mm ring
Jukebox large hole version of variant 3
Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton
Variant 1-3 runouts (any combination of A1, A2 & B1, B2):
A-Side: BUY-62-A1 STEVES A PRESENT …… / BUY-62-A2 STEVES A PRESENT ……
B-Side: BUY-62-B1 … FOR THE FUTURE SA / BUY-62-B2 … FOR THE FUTURE SA
There is reportedly a 4-prong version of variant 3 (looks like variant 5 but with runouts as above).
Variant 4
Label profile: slope from 56mm to 46mm, 32mm ring. No gripper ring around the label
Pressed by WEA, West Drayton
Runouts (also feature the CBS press letter mark):
A-Side: BUY-62-A1 W-x STEVES A PRESENT ….. (x = a number, I have 4 & 6) / B-Side: BUY-62-B1 … FOR THE FUTURE SA
Variant 5
Label profile: slope from 56mm to 46mm, 4-prong punch, 32mm ring, inner ring
Pressed by EMI, Hayes
Runouts (‘BUY 62 x-3U’ is stamped):
A-Side: BUY 62 A-3U SA SWEET / B-Side: BUY 62 B-3U STEVE DOUBLE SWEET
Promo
Label profile: 54mm lip, slope to 44mm, 32mm ring. Large ‘A’ on left.
Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton
Runouts:
A-Side: BUY-62-A2 STEVES A PRESENT…… / B-Side: BUY-62-B2 …FOR THE FUTURE SA
Acetate
Image from Facebook – not in my collection
Trident Studios 7″ acetate of My Girl
See also:
Six Pack (GRAB-1)
Virgin VS 781 (1985)
Mis-Press
There is a pressing of ABBA’s ‘I Have A Dream’ on Epic ‘S EPC 8088’ that plays My Girl on the B-Side
In Print
Sheet Music
Not in my collection
Music Press Articles
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