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Old 01-04-2009, 09:47 PM
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A lot of the times for sure, but never as an absolute rule either. That practice kind of faded away by the end of the 60's, when Top 20 + Top 40 charts began to be rivaled by FM (extended play) radio.
I think that's pretty accurate for the practice of releasing singles that were not included on albums at that particular time, but it certainly was not unusual during the punk/post-punk era in the later '70s and early '80s, and continued to some extent into the '90s at least.

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btw it's the Whisky A Go Go, not Whiskey
Thanks for the correction - not sure I knew that.
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