Elvis Costello & The Attractions: I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down-2 Tone NOS

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Elvis Costello & The Attractions: I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - 2 Tone/CHS TT 7 - NOS

Elvis Costello & The Attractions 7" single on 2 Tone CHS TT 7 - 'I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down' b/w 'Girls Talk', TT 8 and 1A1/1B1 XX matrices crossed out.  This is NEW OLD STOCK, and UNPLAYED.

I purchased this NEW from Rhino Records, Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA in January 1980.  It’s in NOS condition, having never been played.

It was never released by 2 Tone and given away at concerts in England and New York.  This pressing has the matrix numbers CHS-TT-7, CHS-TT-8 and XX 1 (F-Beat). The TT-8 and XX 1 are crossed out.

It has remained in it's ORIGINAL white paper sleeve (these were NOT in a 2 Tone sleeve when originally issued) for 40years!

**There are reflections on some of the photos - not any damage.

Label: Two-Tone Records – CHS TT 7

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Country: UK

Released: Jan 1980

Genre: Rock, Pop

Style: New Wave

Tracklist

A Side:  I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down (Banks/Jones 2:05

B Side:  Girls Talk (Costello) 1:56

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chrysalis Records Ltd.

Copyright (c) – Chrysalis Records Ltd.

Marketed By – Chrysalis Records Ltd.

Licensed From – Riviera Global Record Productions Ltd.

Published By – Mews Music Ltd.

Published By – Plangent Visions Music Ltd.

Notes:

Original version which was withdrawn from the market due to legal action from WEA. Reportedly most copies were given away at London and NYC gigs. This version never in picture sleeve.

Track A - "Recorded Holland, November 1979"

Identifiers

Matrix / Runout: CHS TT 7-A

Matrix / Runout: CHS TT 7-B

More Notes:

According to Record Collector (No 91):  Costello had been signed to Radar in 1978, via a licensing deal from Riviera Global Productions. Radar collapsed towards the end of 1979, and so Elvis's manager Jake Riviera alighted upon the Specials' 2-Tone label as an ideal venue for a holding operation - a one-off single - until Elvis sorted out a deal for the Get Happy!! album. WEA, who had distributed Radar, were less than delighted: they felt they had a stake in Costello's career by virtue of the success of the records they had distributed for him, and so they obtained a court injunction to stop the 2-Tone single being sold.

By March '80, the situation was clarified: F-Beat was set up by Riviera as an independent company, but WEA continued to distribute their records. In the meantime, there were several thousand 2-Tone singles to dispose of. These were handed out free to the audience at a London's Rainbow Theatre gig. Several months later, Riviera pressed up a few thousand more of the 2-Tone singles, and these were given away at London and US gigs”.

Jerry Dammers offers a slightly different take on the story behind this single: “Jake Riviera cheekily printed up a few thousand Elvis Costello singles on the 2 tone label, obviously thinking that I would be delighted to have such a major star on the label, but I was having none of it, 2 Tone being a strictly ska at that time. So Elvis was forced to give these singles away free at his gigs (now collector’s items, of course). (Record Collector magazine No 363).

Of the 2 versions pressed one simply has CHSTT7 on the run out groove and the other has both the F-Beat number XX 1 and 2 separate 2 Tone numbers, CHSTT7 and CHSTT8. The latter (CHSTT8) is crossed out. Both versions are highly sought after and are the number 1 UK 2 Tone rarity, with either version commanding a high price. And in keeping with 2 Tone tradition the A side of the single was a cover version. This time it was the old Sam and Dave soul number that got the 2 Tone treatment.