Wouldn't You Like It? Explained

Wouldn't You Like It?
Type:Album
Artist:Bay City Rollers
Cover:BCR_Wouldnt.jpg
Released:December 1975
Recorded:1975
Studio:Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Genre:Glam rock
Length:38:05
Label:Bell
Producer:Phil Wainman
Prev Title:Bay City Rollers
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Rock N'Roll Love Letter
Next Year:1976

Wouldn't You Like It? is the third studio album by the Scottish pop rock group Bay City Rollers. The LP, issued in the UK in late 1975, saw a marked change in the group's musical direction: all the songs save one were the band's own compositions. The one outside-written tune, "Give a Little Love", was a smash UK hit, and the only single released from the album. The album also included, in the form of a giant letter, a free color picture book of the individual members, with a band picture on the front.

Seven of the tracks from the album would appear on Arista Records' 1976 US-only album, Rock N'Roll Love Letter using the same cover photo and artwork.

Track listing

UK LP release, Bell Records #8002

Track listing per Discogs[1]

2004 UK CD reissue

A 2004 CD reissue on Bell included four bonus tracks: "Saturday Night", which had appeared on Japanese pressings of the original LP; "She'll Be Crying Over You" (originally the B-side of the UK "Give a Little Love" single); and two previously unissued tracks featuring early Roller Nobby Clark on lead vocal: "Wouldn't You Like It? (1972 version)" (an entirely different song from 1975's "Wouldn't You Like It?") and "I'd Do It Again".

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1975)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[2] --access-date=2016-05-31-->3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[3] 3
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[4] 21

Year-end charts

Personnel

Production[6]

Recorded at:-

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wouldn't You Like It? (Images) . Discogs.com. 6 March 2012.
  2. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. Kent Music Report. <
  3. Book: Pennanen, Timo . 2006 . Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 . 1st . Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava . Helsinki. 978-951-1-21053-5 . 263 . Finnish .
  4. Web site: Oricon Archive - Bay City Rollers.
  5. Web site: Top Selling Albums of 1976 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart . . October 12, 2021 .
  6. Album notes