Chart guidelines will be unusual issues. Approach again when, there have been inexplicable events when albums have been listed on the British singles chart. EPs, prolonged play releases, had their very own chart in Britain between 1959 and 1967. However in America, the methodology has typically meant that EPs land on the album survey, and that’s what occurred to Rainbow in 1981.
After 5 album chart entries within the second half of the Nineteen Seventies, Ritchie Blackmore’s band returned to Billboard’s prime 200 survey in March of 1981 with the Troublesome To Treatment launch. It outdid its three predecessors by climbing as excessive as No.50.
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However in the direction of the top of that yr, a brand new launch took Rainbow again into the charts and onto rock radio. The Jealous Lover EP was a four-track launch on which the B-side consisted of two tracks from Troublesome To Treatment: “I Surrender” (the band’s biggest-ever UK hit single, reaching No.3 within the early a part of 1981) and the No.20 follow-up “Can’t Happen Here.”
The A-side, nonetheless, provided the band’s American followers two songs that had not been accessible within the States. The lead monitor “Jealous Lover,” written by lead singer Joe Lynn Turner and Blackmore, had been the UK flip facet of “Can’t Happen Here,” whereas Ritchie’s “Weiss Heim” had been on the opposite facet of the home launch of “I Surrender.” In Jerry Bloom’s 2006 biography of Blackmore, Black Knight, Turner says that he known as upon a latest argument he’d had with a girlfriend, to jot down the lyrics of “Jealous Lover” in quarter-hour flat.
“Jealous Lover” made some noise on American rock radio, reaching No.13 on Billboard’s Rock Tracks chart. The EP made the album chart on November 14, 1981 and reached No.147, in a four-week run. It’s a very collectable merchandise amongst Rainbow followers as a result of it by no means got here out on CD, though the entire EP tracks can be found elsewhere throughout the band’s physique of labor.
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