The first Backbeat label was red with black printing, BACKBEAT in black above the center hole.
Second label was a white drum head with red rim, two yellow drum sticks, with BACKBEAT in red
above the center hole. Third label is green with ABC BackBeat above center hole.
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BACKBEAT ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] Contents
BLP-60 - Funny (How Time Slips Away) - Joe Hinton [1965] Original label
was red and black. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-60. Pledging My Love/Funny (How the
Time Slips Away)/If You Love Me/I'll Get
Along Somehow/If It Ain't One Thing/So Close //Endlessly/Everything/True Love/A Thousand Clips
of Happiness/Darling Come Talk to Me/Guess Who
BLP-61 - (If It Is) Only For Tonight - O.V. Wright [1965] Original label was
red and black. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-61. If It's Only for Tonight/Why Don't You
Believe Me/Can't Find True Love/Motherless
child/You've Been Crying/I Could Write a Book (About Heartaches) //You're Gonna Make Me
Cry/Wish I Were That Boy/Monkey Dog/Don't Want to Sit Down/Everybody Knows (The River
Song)/I Can't Believe (You've Got the Nerve to Cry)
BLP-62
BLP-63
BLP-64
BLP-65
BLP-66 - 8 Men And 4 Women - O.V. Wright [1968] Original label was red
and black. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-66. Eight Men and Four Women/Why Don't You
Believe Me/Can't Find True Love/Don't
Want to Sit Down/Everybody Knows/I Could Write a Book //Bachelor's Blues/You're Gonna Make
Me Cry/Monkey Dog/You've Been Crying/I Can't Believe/Motherless Child
BLP-67 - Nucleus Of Soul - O.V. Wright [1969] First cover was orange with
a large picture of O.V. Wright. Original label was red and black. Second cover was light blue with
a big dark blue spot, no picture of O.V. Wright. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-67. Blowing
in the Wind/Gonna Forget About You/I
Have None/You're So good to Me/Why Not Give Me a Chance //Pledging My Love/This Hurt is
Real/I'll Hate Myself Tomorrow/I'll Take Care of You/I Want Everyone to Know
BLP-68 - She's Back - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton [1970] Original label
was red and black. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-68. Cotton Picking blues/Willie Mae's
Blues/Big Change/Walking Blues/Just Can't
Help Myself /Hound Dog/They Call Me Big Mama/Tarzan and the Signified Monkey/My Man Called
Me/I Smell a Rat
BLP-69
BLP-70 - A Nickel And A Nail And The Ace of Spades - O.V. Wright [1971]
Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-70.
Eight Men Four Women/Ace of Spades/Afflicted/When You Took Your Love From Me/I Was Born
All Over/A Nickel and a Nail/Don't Let My Baby Ride/He Made a Woman for Man/I Can't Take
It/Don't Take It Away
BLP-71 - Can't Stop A Man In Love - Carl Carlton [1973] Original label was
white drum head. White label promos were also issued. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-71.
You Can't Stop a Man in Love/Drop By My
Place/Competition Ain't Nothing/I Won't Let That Chump Break You Heart/Did You Mean It //Born
Just in Time/Why Don't They Leave Us Alone/International Playboy/You Make Me Feel Like a
Grown Up Man/You Times Me Plus Love
BLP-72 - Memphis Unlimited - O.V. Wright [1973] Original label was white
drum head. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Back Beat BBLX-72. I've Been Searching/Nothing Comes to a
Sleeper/The Only Thing That Saved Me/He's
My Son (Just the Same)/You Must Believe in Yourself/Lost in the Shuffle //I'd Rather Be Blind,
Cripple, and Crazy/Please Forgive Me/Are You Going Where I'm Coming From/Ghetto Child/Memory
Blues/I'm Going Home (To Live with God)
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