Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes

Infobox Single
Name =Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes


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Artist =Kevin Ayers
Album =Whatevershebringswesing
B-side ="Stars"
Released =27 August, 1971
Format =7" 45 rpm
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Genre =Rock
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Label =Harvest
Writer =Kevin Ayers
Producer =Kevin Ayers, Andrew King
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Last single ="Butterfly Dance"
(1970)
This single ="Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes"
(1971)
Next single ="Oh! Wot a Dream"
(1972)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = 1976 reissue
Type = single


Lower caption = 1976 reissue "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" was a Kevin Ayers single release. The song taken from his classic 1971 album "Whatevershebringswesing" (released three months later). It would be re-released as a single in 1976 when Ayers re-signed to Harvest Records. The B-side, 'Stars' was a non album track that would be later included on the 1976 compilation "Odd Ditties".

Track listing

#"Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes" (Kevin Ayers)
#"Stars" (Kevin Ayers)

Personnel

*Kevin Ayers / vocals, guitar, bass (on "Stranger.."), vocals, bass (on "Stars")
*David Bedford / piano (on "Stranger.."), organ (on "Stars")
*Mike Oldfield / guitar on "Stars"
*Dave Dufort / drums on "Stars"
*Tony Carr / drums on "Stranger.."
*The Ladybirds / backing vocals on "Stars"

Live version

One live version of the song was released on the album "June 1, 1974".

1976 reissue

To celebrate the return of Kevin Ayers to Harvest Records, in November 1976 the label reissued his 1971 neo-rockabilly single. This time the track was accompanied by an another unreleased song from the "Whatevershebringswesing" sessions – "Fake Mexican Tourist Blues". This humorous track involves an unscrupulous Mexican trying to pair Ayers off with various members of his family; “Hey, brother, what about my mother / She's only just forty / She's especially naughty / She knows a lot a tricks / More than the younger chicks / And if you don't like my mother / I got a very nice brother.” Both songs were included on a collection Harvest released that year of Ayers rarities and B-sides entitled "Odd Ditties", which this single helped to promote.