78 RPM - The Champs - Train To Nowhere / Tequila - Challenge - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	The Champs
Label:	Challenge
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	1016
Date:	15 Jan 1958
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	7 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$73
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PRICE GUIDE

$73

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	The Champs	Train To Nowhere	Dave Burgess	Rate
B	The Champs	Tequila	Chuck Rio	Rate

Notes

A: mx 146; B: mx 147.

Images

Number: 598275

THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: shh-boomer
Description: A side label

Number: 598274

Uploaded By: shh-boomer
Description: B side label

Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 11th Feb 2023		Now I know.;-)



RichardSibello SUBS 11th Feb 2023		xiphophilos - you can't trust those Top Shelf Oldies guys! ;)



xiphophilos 8th Feb 2023		A side: B side:



xiphophilos 8th Feb 2023		The date Dec. 26, 1957 is from https://topshelfoldies.org/champs.htm: "The record was released December 26, 1957 and in a few weeks radio stations began playing the B-side." The record is reviewed in Cash Box, February 8, 1958, page 10. That seems to speak more for a mid-January release. I've changed the date accordingly.



xiphophilos 8th Feb 2023		Tequila performed before a live audience in May 1958:



RichardSibello SUBS 8th Feb 2023		Where did we get this release date from? The 45 came out on 15/1/58, and it was almost certainly pressed first before a 78 was pressed.



xiphophilos 6th Feb 2016		Based on the matrix numbers, the fact that "Tequila" is an instrumental, and the designation of it as the B Side on this history of "The Champs" (http://topshelfoldies.org/champs.htm), I've exchanged the order of the images so that they correspond to the entry, which had already listed "Tequila" as the B Side.



slholzer 5th Feb 2016		I am surprised that there is no discussion about whether Tequila ought to be the A side on this entry. Train To Nowhere was a nice enough track and it was numbered Side 1 on those copies that had a side designation, but it never had the legs that Tequila showed. At some point in time Tequila must have established itself as the "de facto" A side, even if it began life as a lowly side 2. Or are we really more interested in what they thought would be the hit?