Elton John-"Don’t Ya Wanna Play This..."

Although not in the database, this song peaked at #39 in Billboard, in 9/80. My commercial 45, confirmed as MCA 41293, has a listed time of (4:44) and an actual time of (4:42). Although still apparently in print on CD as an import, the U.S. issue of his "21 At 33" CD (MCA 31054) is out-of-print. Nonetheless, this CD does contain the same (4:42) version of the song as appears on the 45.

I only ever called the song "Sartorial Eloquence" on the air, probably because that was shorter. The 45's official title was "(Sartorial Eloquence) DON'T YA WANNA PLAY THIS GAME NO MORE?"

It was fun to segue the song with Simon & Garfunkel's "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)". Back-annoucing the titles seemed to take nearly as long as playing the set. :)

EdisonLite wrote: It's a good thing "Ego" (and for that matter, "Step Into Christmas") were included on the box set, because they were never on an LP, and never on any other CD except this.

Actually, Step Into Christmas was available several years before that, in the mid-80s, on his "Lady Samantha" import CD, along with its much more obscure B-side, Ho Ho Ho (Who'd Be a Turkey at Christmas). The song Friends also made its CD debut on that disc. And of course, Step Into Christmas has appeared many times on CD in the intervening years.

What I'd really like to see, Todd, is him release the rest of his non-LP B-sides. Most of the remasters of his albums contained the B-sides as bonus tracks. For some reason, Blue Moves, 21 at 33, Jump Up, and Breaking Hearts did not. So there's this whole period, from 1980-1985, where we're missing eight or so B-sides on CD.

I was glad a while back to find Snow Queen, the B-side of Don't Go Breaking My Heart, on a UK Reader's Digest Christmas compilation, though it fades out about five seconds before the single does.

Edited by Brian W.