Tokens - Tonight I Fell In Love

Mark, I own one of the two database CDs with the "re-recording"
specified: The Varese "Best Of The B.T. Puppy Years: 1964-67." Some
back story: B.T. Puppy was kind of an "outgrowth" of the Tokens' own
music publishing company, Bright Tunes. And while they and their
buddies, The Happenings, had hits on the label, it really wasn't a "typical
record label", per se. It was a very small, in-house label operation. The
Tokens were just a bunch of longtime friends, whose primary interests
had always been songwriting and producing, but who also enjoyed
singing, recording and performing as well. But for them, recording,
despite a lot of total output over the years, had evolved into much more
of a hobby, by around 1964, when they left RCA. They then set up B.T.
Puppy, mainly to record their own demos, and also to release a few self-
produced 45s. They'd tired of having RCA "ram the latest trend down their
throats", like with their very respectable 1964 Jan & Dean/Beach Boys
styled non-hit, "Let's Go To The Drag Strip."

Back to your question: The "Tonight I Fell In Love" version on the
B.T.Puppy Years disc is noted as a "bonus track" (since it wasn't recorded
between 64-67), and states on the CD insert that the track came off of the
1970 B.T. Puppy LP, "Greatest Moments Of The Tokens." Once they hit
with "I Hear Trumpets Blow" in '67, WB agreed to let them self-produce, so
they briefly signed there. Then, in '68, the same deal was offered by
Buddah. But by 1970, that ended as well, so they briefly "re-activated" B.T.
Puppy, to issue that 1970 LP, with "new re-recordings" of their first two
hits.

Mark, I do *not* believe that Varese CD features the version of the song
that is on the "Both Sides Now" LP on Buddah. The tip: licensing. All 18
tracks are B.T. Puppy recordings. None of their WB or Buddah recordings
were cross-licensed. (The earlier, 14-track Taragon Hits CD had spanned
all their hit years and various labels, but without providing much "depth.")

But all is *not* lost for your buddy: Amazon does currently show an
Australian import CD for "Both Sides Now", on Rev-Ola, for $14.99 +
shipping. If I were him, I wouldn't gamble elsewhere. He wants a specific
re-recording of a particular song. I recommend this one to him. Good
luck!

Edited by jimct

jimct wrote: Back to your question: The "Tonight I Fell In Love" version on the B.T.Puppy Years disc is noted as a "bonus track" (since it wasn't recorded between 64-67), and states on the CD insert that the track came off of the 1970 B.T. Puppy LP, "Greatest Moments Of The Tokens." Once they hit with "I Hear Trumpets Blow" in '67, WB agreed to let them self-produce, so they briefly signed there. Then, in '68, the same deal was offered by Buddah. But by 1970, that ended as well, so they briefly "re-activated" B.T. Puppy, to issue that 1970 LP, with "new re-recordings" of their first two hits.

The Both Sides Now website lists the Greatest Moments With The Tokens lp on B.T. Puppy as having the following track lineup:

BTPS-1012 - The Greatest Moments with the Tokens - Tokens [1970] On The Go/Happy Now/Nobody But You/Oh Cathy/Cherry/You're My Girl/He's In Town/Snow Queen/Little Girl-Little Girl/Carolina On My Mind/The Greatest Moments In A Girl's Life

I don't see either of their first two hits on this album... nor are they included on the Tokens Of Gold LP (BTPS-1006). It's possible the version on that cd came off of the Very Best Of The Tokens (BTPS-1028) since I can't seem to find a track lineup for this LP online...

Looking at the BSN website, the B.T. Puppy website was actively issuing vinyl from 1966 to 1972 and then was re-launched in the cd era starting in 1993 where the company is still around today though not very active with re-releasing material...