If You Could Read My Mind/Sit Down Young Stranger
sarad...@webtv.net
is entitled, Sit Down Young Stranger, (WB 1970). Is this because it was
released in the states by that title? If so, does anyone know why? Just
curious.Hope everyone is having a great holiday! marysavannah
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Joe Cline
>Hi!I have a question regarding the album, If You Could Read My Mind. My copy
>is entitled, Sit Down Young Stranger, (WB 1970). Is this because it was
>released in the states by that title? If so, does anyone know why? Just
>curious.Hope everyone is having a great holiday! marysavannah
When the album first came out, Sit Down . . . was the title. If You .
. . became the hit single off of the album, and Warner, seizing on the
opportunity of having to reprint the LP, changed the name to take
advantage of the hit status.
Joe in Charlotte
Valerie L. Magee
memorabelia - there are many different variations in the album jacket. The first
"version" of SDYS had no printing on the album jacket cover. The album name was on
a sticker on the plastic. Later versions had his name and SDYS printed on the
front cover; then there are versions with a color oval saying "Contains the hit
single IYCRMM" (with more than one color for the oval and the printing in it), and
then several different stages until the final which had the front, back and spine
album title as IYCRMM (there was at least one with SDYS on the front and IYCRMM on
the back - I have that one!). Joe is absolutely right about the motivation for the
change from SDYS to IYCRMM ... however, SDYS is itself one of the most magnificent
songs he ever wrote. It too deserves to be the name of an album!
And, before the album's actual release, WB had it titled Minstrel Of The Dawn.
They even say so on the back of their 1969 compilation Schlagers! which contained
the GL track Pony Man from the SDYS/IYCRMM album.
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>is entitled, Sit Down Young Stranger, (WB 1970). Is this because it was
>released in the states by that title? If so, does anyone know why? Just
>curious.Hope everyone is having a great holiday! marysavanna>
The album was originally titled and released as "Sit Down Young Stranger." It
was changed to "If You Could Read My Mind" after the song by that name became a
top ten hit in the U.S.
Erica
Glutamodo
>The album name was on
>a sticker on the plastic. Later versions had his name and SDYS printed on the
>front cover; then there are versions with a color oval saying "Contains the
>hit
>single IYCRMM
In addition to what Valerie said, I'll add that the very first copies had "SIT
DOWN YOUNG STRANGER" on the back cover - leaving the front cover blank (and I
guess a sticker like Valerie says, I usually cant afford to buy unopened copies
of these)
There is also a variation which is fairly common that I dont think was
mentioned here. Amongst first copies after they changed the title of the LP to
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND, some still retained the title of SIT DOWN YOUNG
STRANGER on the spine only . I have at least two copies of this variety, and I
have seen others, I recently spotted one for sale at a local store for only
like 3 dollars.
Andy