Rock A Little - 25 Years!

[mikebise]

Wow! Can you believe it?! Rock A Little is 25 years old this month! It was a long 2 year & 5 month wait since The Wild Heart. We only had "Violet And Blue", "Sorcerer", Westwood One radio concerts, uncredited backing vocals on "Don't Come Around Here No More" and endless re-listenings to Stevie's previous recordings to get us through that long gap.

As I noted in my "Rock A Little - November 1984 Track Listing" thread, there were 21 songs fully recorded and ready in November 1984 for release for Rock A Little, with "Mirror, Mirror" as the lead single to be released in December. Then, in August 1985, Ginny Kamano announced that 25 songs were now recorded for the album's consideration.

I had two thoughts. First, can we come up with a pretty definitive list of the 25 that were fully recorded. And second, maybe we can do an UPGRADE Thread for the unreleased Outtakes & Demos from the Rock A Little era. Most of us had to suffer through horrible sound quality of most of those songs, but several much better sounding versions have surfaced in recent years. Maybe we could post and try to find the perfect versions?

Anyway, for the RAL 25, we can start with the 11 songs on the album:

1. I Can't Wait
2. Rock A Little
3. Sister Honey
4. I Sing For The Things
5. Imperial Hotel
6. Some Become Strangers
7. Talk To Me
8. The Nightmare
9. If I Were You
10. No Spoken Word
11. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?

Then we have the official b-sides, soundtrack songs and other confirmed Rock A Little recordings:
12. One More Big Time Rock And Roll Star
13. Mirror, Mirror
14. Battle Of The Dragon
15. Are You Mine?
16. Reconsider Me

Next, I'll use songs from the track listing from November 1984:
17. Lady From The Mountains
18. Chanel, Chanel
19. The Dealer
20. Thousand Days

In August 1985, another song was added to the fully-recorded listing:
21. She Still Loves Him

So, that leaves 4 empty slots:
22.
23.
24.
25.

I'm gonna make my own guesses:
22. I Call You Missing
23. Rose Garden
24. Jimmy Come On Back
25. Running Through The Garden

Just guesses, of course. "Something Exquisite" definitely is in the running, and so is "Tied Up (In Promises)", but it's so hard to narrow down. Stevie surely recorded more than 25. Anyway, I was just trying to celebrate Rock A Little and its place in Stevie History.