The original flip sides to everybody’s favorite convicted murderer/hugely influential pop music producer Phil Spector‘s string of mega-hits issued on his own Philles label have never been re-issued in any way. Hell, they aren’t even on the above pictured Flips and Rarities LP ! It’s also damn near impossible to get information about these tracks (mostly named for the musicians playing on them or other members of Spector’s crew) let alone hear them so I was thrilled to find this collection of 15 or so of them uploaded to Youtube in bunches. It’s fascinating listening. Ostensilbly these were instrumental throwaways: Jams, half-songs, pseudo jazz workouts whose pupose, I believe, was to ensure that no DJ anywhere would be confused as to which side was the A side. But it’s obvious that Spector was also using these tracks to really push his sonic experiments: Crazy huge reverbs, echo, overloaded pre-amps (I hear the genesis of The Beatles’ Savoy Truffle horns in here), wild-ass solos, etc. I’d sure love to have these all collected and properly mastered. Until then can someone out there tell me where else to find these tracks collected ?
FLIP AND NITTY
WALKIN’ ALONG
DR. KAPLAN’S OFFICE
GIT IT
ANNETTE
BROTHER JULIUS
HARRY AND MILT MEET HAL B
TEDESCO AND PITMAN
NINO AND SONNY ( BIG TROUBLE )
MISS JOAN AND MR SAM
HARRY ( FROM W. VA.) MEET HAL B
LARRY L
CHUBBY DANNY D
BEBE AND SUSU
IRVING
BIG RED