So Long, Bannatyne

So Long, Bannatyne is the eighth studio album by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who, released in 1971 by RCA Records.

So Long, Bannatyne
Studio album by
The Guess Who
ReleasedJuly 1971
Recorded1971 at RCA's Mid-America Recording Center, Chicago, Illinois
GenreRock
Length41:48
LabelRCA Records
ProducerJack Richardson
The Guess Who chronology
The Best of The Guess Who
(1971)		 So Long, Bannatyne
(1971)		 Rockin'
(1972)
Singles from So Long, Bannatyne
  1. "Rain Dance"
    Released: July 1971
  2. "Sour Suite"
    Released: October 1971
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Background

The album's title track includes the words:

So long Bannatyne, hello my Chevrier home.

The album's packaging and title track illustrate a transition in the life of Guess Who guitarist Kurt Winter moving from the city to the suburbs. The front cover has the words "So Long, Bannatyne" and shows the band dressed casually around a red Chevrolet with a Manitoba license plate in front of The Bannatyne Apartments (located at 545 Bannatyne Avenue in the band's hometown of Winnipeg. The back cover has the words "Hello My Chevrier Home" and shows the band now dressed more formally with the same red Chevy in the back of a home located on Chevrier Avenue, about 5 miles from downtown Winnipeg.

Track listing

All songs written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter except noted.

Side one
  1. "Rain Dance" - 2:45
  2. "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl" (Cummings) - 3:13
  3. "Goin' a Little Crazy" - 6:59
  4. "Fiddlin'" - 1:06
  5. "Pain Train" - 3:45
  6. "One Divided" (Greg Leskiw) - 2:38
Side two
  1. "Grey Day" (Leskiw) - 4:16
  2. "Life in the Bloodstream" (Cummings) - 3:10
  3. "One Man Army" - 3:55
  4. "Sour Suite" (Cummings) - 4:08
  5. "So Long, Bannatyne" - 5:55
Bonus Tracks (2010 Iconoclassic CD Release)
  1. "Albert Flasher" (Cummings) - 3:06
  2. "Broken" - 2:44

8-Track
  • The 8-track release featured a different ordering of tracks:

Track 1: "Life in the Bloodstream", "Fiddlin'", "So Long, Bannatyne"

Track 2: "Rain Dance", "Sour Suite", "Pain Train"

Track 3: "One Divided", "One Man Army", "Grey Day"

Track 4: "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl", "Goin' a Little Crazy"

Personnel
The Guess Who
Additional personnel
  • Brian Christian - engineer
  • Jack Richardson - producer

Charts

Album

Year Chart Peak Position
1971 Billboard 200 52

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1971 "Rain Dance" Canada 3
Australia 55
Billboard Hot 100 19
"Sour Suite" Canada 12
Billboard Hot 100 50
1972 "Life in the Bloodstream" Canada 39

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. The Guess Who – So Long, Bannatyne Credits Retrieved February 7, 2019


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