12" Singles - Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut - Arista

12" Single

Artist:	Stray Cats
Label:	Arista
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	SCAT 123
Date:	1983
Format:	12" Single
Title:	Stray Cat Strut
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	8 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Producer	Rating
A1	Stray Cats	Stray Cat Strut	Setzer	Dave Edmunds	8.0 Rate
A2	Stray Cats	Built For Speed	Setzer	B. Setzer, Stray Cats	7.0 Rate
B1	Stray Cats	Sweet Love On My Mind	D. Burnette	B. Setzer, Stray Cats	7.0 Rate
B2	Stray Cats	Drink That Bottle Down	The Stray Cats	B. Setzer, Stray Cats	7.0 Rate

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Lee Wrecker 18th Jun 2016		Stray Cat Strut was a hit in the UK in 1981 but their 1981 debut album "Runaway Boys" was not released in the USA. In 1982, based on the band's overseas success (UK, Europe & Australia) the album Built For Speed https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/st17070 was cobbled together for the US much in the same way as the Clash's first album. That record is most of the original debut plus some selected tracks from singles and in the case of Built For Speed some tracks from the follow up album too. As a result the single of "Stray Cat Strut" was not released as a single until 1982 in the US when it belatedly became a hit on home turf. I'm not sure but I think this EP is an attempt to resell the song after it was a hit in Europe & Australia (see linked release) by adding a few non-album tracks on the B side.



RadnaNotions 18th Jun 2016		Thanks for that. On the assumption that the information in the book isn't just derived from dates printed on labels, it seems there must have been something that happened in 1983. For what it's worth, my copy appears to have been exported to the USA - maybe that's relevant. The lead track sounds awesome in this format.



mlgh224 SUBS 17th Jun 2016		"Apart from what it says on the labels, do we have any evidence that this 12" of a 1981 single was released in 1983?" Music Master British Pop Singles 1974-1985 (Singles Catalogue 1st edtion) lists the 7" as released April 1981, and again in May 1983. The 12" release is given as March 1983. However the 1990 edition (Singles Catalogue 3rd Edition) lists both 7" and 12" as April 1981 with no mention of the later issue.



RadnaNotions 17th Jun 2016		Apart from what it says on the labels, do we have any evidence that this 12" of a 1981 single was released in 1983? Unless they're different versions (and it's unlikely that the live version of Drink The Bottle Down from 12/3/81 is) then surely the publication year for A1 and B2 would have been 1981 even if this was a later release? I note that the equivalent "pin-up" labels on the 7" don't have a year on them - possibly the result of a correction? It would be an unusual mistake to misprint the current year as two years ahead (four times), but then the 7" apparently came out the month after the live tracks were recorded, so it was a quick turnaround.



make1968 25th Jun 2013		B2 Recorded live in Newcastle 12.3.81

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Linked Releases

Australia - Arista - 1983