Oh wow...I’m so glad I found this song again! This was the 1st
45 record I ever owned, thanks to my mom who picked it along with a portable
record player of my own. I was in first grade and up to this point I had only a
couple long players of children’s
stories like Jack & the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, and Pinocchio
to name a few, that I could only listen to on my dad’s hi-fi. I think they got
tired of my asking them to play records on it and decided to get my own record
player.
“Mary-Anne with the Shaky Hands” appears on THE WHO SELL
OUT, and was released on the Decca label in this different version as the
flipside to “I Can See for Miles.” Much
as I loved “I Can See for Miles” I played “Mary-Anne” way more often, and
credit this song (and “Miles”) for kick-starting my love for rock music, nice
and loud, with just the right amount of pop to it. Years later when I got to
see The Who play at Tampa Stadium they played this song, much to my delight. I’m
sure my mom has no memory of getting me this record, but I sure do. I’ve long
since lost the single 45 of Miles/Mary along with a lot of my stuff from
childhood. But I do own the LP, THE WHO SELL OUT, which it appears on in its
more acoustic version.
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