AN UNJUSTIFIED FLOP (Part 3)

Reaching #85 in the Billboard Charts with only your third single is a very fine achievement....but the rest of the world showed little interest in this single from May 1984:-

mp3 : R.E.M. - So. Central Rain

That's Michael Stipe himself pictured on the sleeve.  He's changed a wee bit since then.

Wiki inform the world that the band performed the song on Late Night With David Letterman in 1983 before it even had a title in what was their first ever national television appearance.  I've had a hunt for it:-




Such clips make this whole damn interwebby thing all worthwhile

The B-side of the 7" is listed as one track when in fact it is two pieces of music:-

mp3 : R.E.M. - Walter's Theme/King Of The Road

The latter being a jammed and drunken version cover of the song made famous by Roger Miller and a karaoke favourite of many even today almost 50 years later.

Happy Listening.