Van Halen-Pretty Woman b/w Happy Trails (1982)


 

Artist: Van Halen

Title: Pretty Woman b/w Happy Trails 

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: 7"

Cat #: WBS-50003

Year of Release: 1982

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1982

Listed Condition: VG+/G+

Sell Date: 3/24/22

Sell Price: $2.99

Discogs Last Sold: 2/2/22 $3.00 VG+/VG

Low: $0.75

Median: $1.86

Average: $2.36

High:$7.95

Current low price: $0.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47

Have/Want: 786/65

Where Sold: Taunton, MA

Time it took to sell: 7 years

Where and When Bought: Strawberries  Worcester new 1982

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

This #12 Billboard single from 1982 did not top Roy Orbison's 1964 #1 original either aesthetically or commercially.  Who cares when you've got Eddie Van Halen chugging away?

Although the album track includes the "(Oh)" from the original title that the single left off, the single is purged of the introduction "Intruder" that rock radio would play with the segueway into the main song.  I always heard a subliminal Fred and Barney conversation or more likely Fred and Wilma in the mix in that intro, I'm not exactly sure.  

Diver Down, the final great Van Halen album, was a brief one filled with mostly covers including hokum like this B-side "Happy Trails."   Every utterance of Diamond Dave was noted.  Nay.  Nip-nip, nayyyyyyyy.... in my head is actually mmmmmm, dup dup, mmmmmmmmm.....  How did I get this wrong all these years?  They didn't bother to put the laughter at the end of the translation like they do in subtitles (man laughing).

I have a memory of my neighbor friend John cranking Diver Down at concrete shaking volume (particularly "Where Have All The Good Times Gone") down the street until his mother came home from work and yelled at him for hearing the music a considerable distance away.  Neighbors mean nothing to the teenage sons of homeowners.  To crank it up Van Halen not to mention AC/DC, Ozzy, Sabbath, hell even a White Album 8-track with the speakers facing  out the window in the early 80's was crucial expression.

Volume means everything.

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