Yet another that come courtesy of its inclusion within the Big Gold Dreams box set, released on Cherry Red back in 2019. This one dates from November 1977.
mp3: Bee Bee Cee – You Gotta Know Girl
Here’s the blurb from the booklet:-
“With Britain’s state broadcasters chasing ratings on the back of punk’s shock value, enter Edinburgh’s five-piece Bee Bee Cee.
Led by vocalist Dave Gilhooley and guitarist Callum McNair, Bee Bee Cee made a sole vinyl offering which paired You Gotta Know Girl with the snottier We Ain’t Listening released on Radio Edinburgh Ltd.
Gilhooley and McNair later teamed up as Club of Rome, contributing to the Mint Sauce For The Masses Edinburgh compilation EP. McNair went on to Syndicate, then The Apples with ex-Win-ites Ian Stoddart and Willy Perry, and Captain Shifty with Stoddart before joining The Bathers, fronted by ex-Friends Again frontman Chris Thomson. McNair currently plays with Blondie tribute band Dirty Harry.”
Discogs has two copies of the Bee Bee Cee single on offer. The asking price is around the £170 mark. I’ll be honest and say that until the inclusion of this song on the box set, I had never heard of the band.
Given it was a one-off single, I set out to track down the b-side, but without forking out that sort of sum of cash.
mp3: Bee Bee Cee – We Ain’t Listening
Both tracks do have 1977 written all over them.
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