Great prog 7 inch singles !

[Rufus]

Some prog bands had some success in the 'pop' charts.
Even those that didn't gave it a go.
Honourable efforts !
.Focus -Hocus Hocus & Sylvia
.PFM -Celebration
.Kansas-Dust in the wind & Carry on Wayward son
Pink Floyd ..See Emily Play
ELP ...Lucky Man
Yes..Wondrous Stories

Dishonorable efforts!
.Pink Floyd ..When the tigers broke free
.ELP ...All I Want
.Genesis...I Know What I like & Your own Special way
.Yes...Don't Kill The Whale
.Styx..Boat on the River

[80s were ok]

what are the "Dishonorable efforts"? Just stuff you don't like?

[mogrooves]

KC ~ Cat Food / Groon
Hatfield ~ Let's Eat (Real Soon) / Fitter Stoke Has A Bath
GG ~ The Power & The Glory / Playing The Game
Slapp Happy ~ Johnny's Dead / Mr. Rainbow
Genesis ~ Twilight Alehouse
Robert Wyatt ~ I'm A Believer / Memories
JT ~ Life's A Long Song / Up The Pool / Dr. Bogenbroom / From Later / Nursie

[80s were ok]

Chris Squire and Alan White- Run with the Fox / Return of the Fox

[mnprogger]

a few here
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/SoundscapeMN/vinyl__7__10_and_12_45_rpm_singles_splits_eps

[Roth-Handle Studios]

Screamin Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you

[Progbear]

Since I know no one else but me will mention it: Eela Craig’s “Stories”/“Cheese” single.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjjO1UDcMZk

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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

‘“What blow, Goblin?” said Corinius.’ --E. R. Eddison

N.P.:nothing

[Rufus]

what are the "Dishonorable efforts"? Just stuff you don't like?

Korrekt...& neither did the general public [who they were aimed at] cos they bombed. So they got a double whammy from both prog fans & the public. To my knowledge none of those songs are regarded as great or even decent by the majority of the prog fraternity excluding fan boys. Most dishonourable IMO!!!!!:lol

I'll also give an honourable to mention to Genesis for Carpet Crawlers as IMO it has both commercial & prog credidibility. Also to some of King Crimson's 80's single releases!!

[Musitron]

Mike Oldfield theme from Exorcist (from Tubular Bell) - Moonlight Shadow
Manfred Man's Earth Band - Spirit in the night
ELO - Can't get it out of my head
Supertramp - School
But the best as already mention, Focus - Hocus Pocus

[R. Totale III]

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[Progbear]

My preferred Supertramp single is “Lady,” if only for the cool non-album B-side: “You Started Laughing When I Held You in My Arms.”

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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

"That's my purse! I don't know you!" --Bobby Hill

N.P.:“Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen”-Nina Hagen & Automobil

[Toothyspook]

Hawkwind - Silver Machine
The Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs - Seaside Shuffle

[GuitarGeek]

Pink Floyd: Arnold Layne
Pink Floyd: Apples And Oranges
Pink Floyd: Point Me At The Sky
Pink Floyd: See Emily Play
Pink Floyd: It Would Be So Nice
Marillion: Market Square Heroes
Nektar: Do You Believe In Magic?
Hawkwind: Silver Machine
Hawkwind: Urban Guerilla
Hawkwind: Back On The Streets
Mike Oldfield: In Dulce Jublio (mainly for it's B-side, On Horseback)
Mike Oldfield: Pictures In The Dark
Van Der Graaf Generator: Theme One
Magma had a 7" release that had a track that was based off the last section of Rïah Sahïltaahk. Likewise, I recall Jannick Top had a single or two that was really good, I think one of them was called Mekanik Machine.

[Mascodagama]

^ According to Discogs Magma had quite a few singles out over the years. I wonder if they ever made the French top 40??

[peterpyser]

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[GuitarGeek]

^ According to Discogs Magma had quite a few singles out over the years. I wonder if they ever made the French top 40??

Yes, they did, there was a CD they came out in the late 90's, I think, that had most of the 7" releases on them. Unfortunately, I never got around to getting it, and I believe it's not out of print.

Checking a couple websites, I think the track I wat hinking of, that was based off the coda of Rïah Sahïltaahk is either Tendei Kobah or Klaus Kombalad, but for some reason, I'm really thinking it's the latter.

As for those Jannick Top singles, I had to look up to the Soleil D'Ork CD, because I can't find my copy. There were indeed two singles, one was Epithecantropus/Viva Utopia, and the other was Les Musiques Des Spheres/Mekanik Machine.

[Mascodagama]

Yes, they did, there was a CD they came out in the late 90's, I think, that had most of the 7" releases on them. Unfortunately, I never got around to getting it, and I believe it's not out of print.

Checking a couple websites, I think the track I wat hinking of, that was based off the coda of Rïah Sahïltaahk is either Tendei Kobah or Klaus Kombalad, but for some reason, I'm really thinking it's the latter.

As for those Jannick Top singles, I had to look up to the Soleil D'Ork CD, because I can't find my copy. There were indeed two singles, one was Epithecantropus/Viva Utopia, and the other was Les Musiques Des Spheres/Mekanik Machine.
Interesting, thank you GG. I will keep an eye out for that singles compilation!

[Supersonic Scientist]

Here's a few that I own:

Steve Hillage: Getting Better (Lennon/McCartney)...B side: Palm Trees (Love guitar)

Emerson, Lake & Powell: Touch and Go...B side: Learning to Fly

Genesis: IN too Deep...B side: I'd Rather be You

YES: Owner of a lonely heart...B side: Our song


...and the winner for the worst Prog-related...…

Phil Collins: From the movie: Buster: A groovy kind of love...B side: Big Noise

[groon]

KC ~ Cat Food / Groon

I used to have that one in the pic sleeve. Lost it when moving house in 1984. I still wake up regretting that!

But the single of ITCOTCK did survive the move. I'm not surprised it never charted as the song is spread over both sides. Not exactly juke box friendly ...

[GuitarGeek]

Interesting, thank you GG. I will keep an eye out for that singles compilation!

The Magma singles collection is called Simples, and unfortunately, it's only 5 tracks, clocking in at around 20 minutes. I know there were more Magma singles than that, but I imagine the others are just excerpts from the album tracks.

[Pekka]

Korrekt...& neither did the general public [who they were aimed at] cos they bombed. So they got a double whammy from both prog fans & the public. To my knowledge none of those songs are regarded as great or even decent by the majority of the prog fraternity excluding fan boys. Most dishonourable IMO!!!!!:lol
!

"I Know What I Like" didn't bomb as far as I know and I like it. A great but weird little pop song with a good bassline.

"Your Own Special Way" isn't that special, I agree, but at least the single-edit is better than the long album version since they cut the totally superfluous "proggy" middle section.

[Pekka]

My favourites:

Yes: Roundabout
Yes: America
-I love the long versions but these single-edits have a certain charm and it's a pity that the short and concise version of "Roundabout" hasn't been released on a Yes compilation as far as I know

Pekka Pohjola: Imppu's Tango
-Again it's heavily edited (loses the whole middle section) but it got tons of airplay here in Finland back in 1982 and I recall hearing it a lot when I was about 7 years old thinking "what a weird tune". :)

UK: In The Dead Of Night
-Edits make it very urgent and paranoid and hey, they even left some of the Holdsworth's solo in there! An ending is thrown in from "Reprise" section.

[GuitarGeek]

"I Know What I Like" didn't bomb as far as I know and I like it. A great but weird little pop song with a good bassline.

I had the understanding it was a hit in the UK, which is why it's typically been one of the more frequently played songs of the Gabriel era ever since.

[flowerking]

The Kansas 45 with Point of Know Return had Closet Chronicles as its b side.

[cannygoodlike]

The Magma singles collection is called Simples

Yep, and you were right when you suspected it was Klaus Kombalad.

Another Magma single was "Flöë Ëssi / Ëktah" but I am not sure whether it counts as it was originally released in 1998 only on CD but reissued a couple of years ago as a 7". It is notable as being the first Magma release following their hiatus after Merci. The CD version was one of the most expensive records I've ebought on a cost to minutes of music basis but it's great.

[flytomars]

Yep, and you were right when you suspected it was Klaus Kombalad.

Another Magma single was "Flöë Ëssi / Ëktah" but I am not sure whether it counts as it was originally released in 1998 only on CD but reissued a couple of years ago as a 7". It is notable as being the first Magma release following their hiatus after Merci. The CD version was one of the most expensive records I've ebought on a cost to minutes of music basis but it's great.

I have it somewhere, though it was years since I last heard it!
If memory serves, at least one of the compositions was not penned by CV

[jake]

Curved Air had a modest UK hit with Back Street Luv with Everdance on the B-Side. Also wasn't 'Fanfare for the Common Man' quite a biggie for ELP?

[cannygoodlike]

I have it somewhere, though it was years since I last heard it!
If memory serves, at least one of the compositions was not penned by CV
Yep, Flöë Ëssi is a Philippe Bussonnet composition.

[Progbear]

Pekka Pohjola: Imppu's Tango
-Again it's heavily edited (loses the whole middle section) but it got tons of airplay here in Finland back in 1982 and I recall hearing it a lot when I was about 7 years old thinking "what a weird tune". :)

The B-side is “Silent Decade” (included as a bonus on my Urban Tango CD), which seems to be a collaboration with a couple of guys from Broadcast.


Curved Air had a modest UK hit with Back Street Luv with Everdance on the B-Side.

Top 5 is a little more than merely “modest.” A bigger hit than “I Know What I Like,” mentioned up-thread.

[syncopatico]

Thick As A Brick, Part 1/Thick As A Brick, Part 2 -- Chrysalis WIP 6155 (1972)

A Passion Play edit #8/A Passion Play edit #9 -- Chrysalis WIP ???? (1973)

[Progbear]

A Passion Play edit #8/A Passion Play edit #9 -- Chrysalis WIP ???? (1973)

I own this. It’s such a weird single. I guess Chrysalis demanded that they had to release something in single form from this, but I can’t imagine any radio station ever playing this. “Bungle in the Jungle” it ain’t.

Thought of another one I own: “Once on a Windy Day” / “Fugue in D Minor” by Gracious.

[GuitarGeek]

Yep, and you were right when you suspected it was Klaus Kombalad.
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I thought as much. Somewhere around here, I have a cassette someone gave me back int he early 90's, which had a one hour Magma show from something like '72 (Metz, I think), and he tacked a bunch of the Magma and Jannick Top singles on it (with the cassette side running out during Mekanik Machine, I think), and I remembered the title Klaus Kombalad from that tape, so that's where my guess came from.

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[Ten Thumbs]

Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man, Barabajagal
The Band - Life Is A Carnival
Roxy Music- Love Is The Drug
Steely Dan- a few
The Who - See Me Feel Me, I Can See For Miles
Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire

[philsunset]

Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory / Playing the Game

I have some of these. A great fanboy moment was at an Ethelfest. I hoped that Gary Green would be there and I brought two copies... and he was. During the evening I brought them up to Gary, asked if he could sign one. He'd never seen the single. He pulled one out of the paper sleeve, slowly and carefully examined both sides. He signed one for me, I gave him the other copy and he immediately took it out to his car so it wouldn't be harmed.

[Pekka]

Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory / Playing the Game

I have some of these. A great fanboy moment was at an Ethelfest. I hoped that Gary Green would be there and I brought two copies... and he was. During the evening I brought them up to Gary, asked if he could sign one. He'd never seen the single. He pulled one out of the paper sleeve, slowly and carefully examined both sides. He signed one for me, I gave him the other copy and he immediately took it out to his car so it wouldn't be harmed.

Great!😊

I really like the single. The A-side has a great funky bassline and the song is one of the few moments where Gentle Giant sounds a bit like Jethro Tull. A distant cousin of "Third Hoorah". Anderson paid back with "Songs From The Wood".

The b-side edit is interesting too as it adds that "hail!" -bit off "Proclamation" to the end IIRC. Not released on any album except for the Italian compilation "The Studio Gentle Giant Vol 2" which also includes the 7" edit of "In A Glass House" and an edited "Proclamation" too (maybe that was a promo single somewhere?).

https://www.discogs.com/Gentle-Giant-The-Original-Studio-Gentle-Giant-Vol-2/release/2644041

[Rogue Mail]

Would Music by John Miles count?

I know he was not a prog artist and its not prog per se, but it is a bit of an epic with quite a few changes...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF6mk2Sq4yY

[Progbear]

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Would Music by John Miles count?

I know he was not a prog artist and its not prog per se, but it is a bit of an epic with quite a few changes...

There’s even a 7/4 passage. And some lovely orchestrations from Andrew Powell. The Rebel album kind of felt like a dry run for the APP (Parsons produced, and Miles was a guest vocalist on many of the Project albums), replete with some nice progressive moments (see also: “You Have It All”).

[Shadow]

Back in the mid to late 70's the store where I shopped brought in a bunch of 7" imports. When I saw them I bought them all because I figured they would eventually be worth more than $2 each knowing full well I would never sell them. They have never been played.

Le Orme - Canzone d'amore/E' finita una stagione
Le Orme - SE IO LAVORO/SYORIA O LEGGENDA
Le Orme - gioco di bimba/figure di cartone
Cybotron - Ridge To Infinity/Colossus
Vangeles - Pulstar/Alpha
T.H.X. - Telstar/Rhizosphere Suite
Peter Baumann - Biking Up The Strand/Dance At Dawn
Roland Bocquet - L'abelle/La Marche Des Canards
Hydravion - L'hydravion D' Argent/Metropolitain
Space Art - Speedway/Odyssey
Steve Hillage - It's All Too Much/Shimmer
Mike Oldfield - Argiers/William Tell Overture
Hatfield And The North - Fitter Stoke Has A Bath/Let's Eat (Real Soon)
Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory/Playing The Game
Genesis - Ripples/It's Yourself
Space Art - Melodie moderne/Nous savons tout
Space Art - Onyx/Axus
Van Der Graff Generator - Meurglys III, The Songwriters Guild/Wondering
Goblin - Suspiria/Blind Concert
Goblin - E. Suono Rock/Yell
Goblin - Opera Magnifica/Un Ragazzo D' Argento
Goblin - Profondo Rosso/Death Dies

[Shadow]

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[Top Cat]

does Genesis' Spot the Pigeon count?? it's listed on Discogs in two vinyl formats. 7" 45RPM and 12"EP.
I had the good fortune of finding the 12" EP on vinyl at my local used record shop, Bananna's Records in St Pete, Fl

[Shadow]

does Genesis' Spot the Pigeon count?? it's listed on Discogs in two vinyl formats. 7" 45RPM and 12"EP.
I had the good fortune of finding the 12" EP on vinyl at my local used record shop, Bananna's Records in St Pete, Fl

I have a 12" of Mike Oldfield's Guilty. At first I couldn't tell whether to play it at 33 or 45 because both sounded good.

[Rajaz]

Without going that far in time, one of the latest by Steven Wilson called "Permanating" goes far beyond an attempt to get a hit single or chart single shot at commercialism when he introduces the song as a pop song "summarizing the Beatles are the best group of all time and Abba are the second and you are gonna disco dance!"...I think Steven Wilson did this tongue in cheek song to show his pop side.

[Zeuhlmate]

I have this one: albert marcoeur - Celui où y'a joseph, 7"


https://www.cdandlp.com/en/albert-marcoeur/celui-ou-y-a-joseph/7inch-gatefold/r113743608/

[Shadow]

At the record show today I saw a 45 for Autobahn by Kraftwerk

[Buddhabreath]

This is the pride of my tiny and stagnant singles collection:

https://youtu.be/VS4hBVhGjcY

[Rarebird]

At the record show today I saw a 45 for Autobahn by Kraftwerk

That one I know. It did relatively well in the Netherlands. When I heard the LP version for the first time, I didn't like it, while I liked the single. Now I prefer the long version.

Kayak had several singles
Lyrics / Trying to write a book
Mammoth / Ballad of the cripple
See see the sun / Give it a name
Wintertime / Alibi
We are not amused / Serenades
Change for a lifetime / My heart never changed
Still my heart cries for you / Raid your own house
Do you care / Nothingness
Starlight dancer / Irene
Want you to be mine / Golddust
Phantom of the night / Ivory dance
Ruthless queen / Ivory dance
Phantom of the night / Ballad for a lost friend
Anne / The sight
Spetters / Lost blue of Chartres
Periscope live / Astral aliens
Total loss / What I wanna do
Seagull / The sword in the stone
The king's enchanter /Tintagel
Who's fooling who / Irene

[AndiSexgang]

Genesis..Your own Special way
Styx..Boat on the River

These were both hugely loved in the UK, and rightly so they are great pop songs.