Cover of Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

1978 New Wave
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Tracklist

  1. A Wing
  2. A Hit Me With Your Rhythm StickDury/Jankel, Jankel, Dury 3:36
  3. B Wing
  4. B There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever BastardsDury/Hardy, Dury, Hardy 2:58

Musicians

Also credited

Also credited. Written By: Dury/Jankel, Dury/Hardy. Written-By: Ian Dury, Russell Hardy.

Release notes

A & B-side of labels are titled “A Wing” & “B Wing”: a reference to prison (aka: “chokey”)

Unusual printed text on A-Side label:-
6̲
Tricks, Points % ✔︎

Also printed on B-Side label:- “Late Start High On Fence” and “Segovia Rules”.

On the B-Side the band members are individually credited, rather than as ‘The Blockheads’
On the sleeve-back they are “ID And The Blocks”.

℗1978 Stiff Records
©1978 Stiff Records
A-Side published by Blackhill Music
B-Side published by Blackhill/Oval Music

There is another version here, which states on the back cover “Made and produced in England”, which is missing from this version.
There is also a version here, that has a slightly different intro on the A-side.

Runouts are stamped except for the etched ”STRAWBERRY”.

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