Squeeze “Take Me, I’m Yours”

sfilzen — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:27:50 +0000

Squeeze “Take Me, I’m Yours” 1978. We picked up Squeeze’s debut single at a great little record store in Brighton, England last week, a place called Vinyl Revolution which I just learned is closing its doors this weekend. It’s a sad situation when global economics and politics, legal and transportation issues all combine to push a lovely independent record store out of its brick-and-mortar business. One of the shop owner’s, Simon Parker chatted with me for a bit upon checkout and what a lovely guy! They will still have an online shop: here is their website link.

Me in front of Vinyl Revolution, Brighton

Joe digging through the 7″ singles.

Anyway, Squeeze’s “Take Me, I’m Yours” is a fantastic early new wave track. It hit #19 on the UK charts and appears on their debut album Squeeze. John Cale produced that LP but did not produce “Take Me, I’m Yours” nor the other single, “Bang Bang.” The b-side, “Night Nurse,” is a rockin’ rhythm and blues scorcher which features Jools Holland on vocals and boogie woogie piano and, according to the video, The Invisible Man on saxophone.

They had a fairly long video about the reasons for the closure on YouTube that I originally posted here but either they took it down or someone in the gov’t decided it wasn’t cool. Oh well.

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Squeeze “Take Me, I’m Yours”