Not many artists get so annoyed with their record label that they change their name and start writing “slave” on their face. The tracks are available on Spotify, if you truly desire to hear a grown man sing about sandwiches. The tracks would eventually see the light of day in the mid-90s, and remain some of the weirdest (and often funniest) music ever recorded by a mainstream artist. Not a patient man at the best of times, Van did the only thing he could think of: he recorded more than 30 songs in a single recording session, on an out-of-tune guitar, about subjects as diverse as ringworm, blowing your nose, a dumb guy named George, and whether he wanted to eat a danish or a sandwich.īang Records, who seemed to think that the songs were below the quality of Morrison’s regular output (imagine that,) deemed the bizarre collection unfit for release. Morrison was obliged to record exactly 36 songs for his old label, who would also continue to earn royalties off anything he released for the first year after leaving Bang. There was still one small contractual detail though. Just when it seemed Morrison might never deliver on his musical potential, Warner Music stepped in and bought out his deal with Bang Records. They demanded he deliver some more short and poppy stuff like Brown Eyed Girl, while he wanted to release 11-minute renditions of lion impersonations (which he did on the album Saint Dominic’s Preview.) The singer became so distraught with his label situation, that he slipped into financial trouble and had problems finding gigs. Van Morrison’s Contract Breaking SessionsĪfter a pretty unhappy couple of years with his label Bang Records in the mid-60s, Van Morrison wanted out.
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Feel free to listen just note the NSFW lyrics.Ĩ. Then the Internet came along, as it’s well known to do. It was called Schoolboy Blues, but is more commonly known by the title C***sucker Blues, due to the chorus where future British knight Sir Michael Jagger croons like a perverted Bing Crosby: “Where can I get my c*** sucked? / Where can I get my a** f*****?”ĭecca, quite understandably, decided it best not to release the track.
Nope, not the Stones! Instead, they recorded the most commercially unpalatable song they could think of. There was only one problem before they got shot of Decca, they had to deliver one final track.īeing the crazy rock ‘n’ roll rebels that they were, they weren’t going to allow themselves be held ransom to a legally binding contract that they signed in good faith. They decided to form their own label, where they would presumably earn more money, and be allowed to release increasingly disappointing albums over a 40-year period. Rolling Stones: C***sucker Bluesīack in 1969, the Rolling Stones weren’t happy with their record label Decca.
As mama Michelle Phillips memorably said of the record, it “sounded like what it was four people trying to avoid a lawsuit.” 9. The finished product didn’t really please anybody, and sunk without trace when released. John Phillips took over most of the writing duties of People Like Us, overdubbing the work of his former bandmates whenever he could get them to record vocals. Then they were threatened with a million-pound lawsuit. Having gone their separate ways, the former parents didn’t really fancy the gig. When their record label, Dunhill, was bought out by ABC, some bright spark realized that the group still owed them one more album. The California Dreamin’ singers initially split in 1968.
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