Single: I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
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Release info
| Release date | Media | Catalog number | Comments |
| 1980-01-18 | 7" | 2 Tone chs TT 7 | UK |
| 1980-03-__ | 7" | F-Beat XX1 | UK, ps |
| 1980-03-__ | 7" | Columbia 11194 | US/Canada |
| 1980-__-__ | 7" | F-Beat K 18171 | Italy, different ps |
| 1980-__-__ | 7" | WEA WEA18171 | Holland |
| 1980-__-__ | 7" | Smash Records TAR 11 | Sweden, ps |
| 1980-__-__ | 7" | F-Beat/Warner P-551X | Japan, ps |
| 1980-__-__ | 7" | Columbia 1-11194 | US, white label promo |
| 1980-__-__ | 7" | Columbia 1-11251 | US, ps, 4-track EP |
| 1980-__-__ | 7" | Columbia 1-11251 | US promo, different ps, 4-track EP |
| 2003-10-27 | 5" CD | Edsel XX 1 | UK, available only in Singles, Volume 1 box set |
TracklistSide A: |
Tracklist (4-track EP)Side A: |
Tracklist (US white label promo)Side A: |
Credits
- Performed by: Elvis Costello & The Attractions
- Produced by: Nick Lowe
Charts
- #4 (UK)
Notes
- According to Record Collector (#91): "This was the most sought-after collector's item of early 1980, which offended the law of gravity by gradually becoming more common instead of less. Costello had been signed to Radar in 1978, via a licensing deal from Riviera Global Productions. Radar collapsed towards the end of 1979, and so Elvis's manager Jake Riviera alighted upon the Specials' 2-Tone label as an ideal venue for a holding operation - a one-off single - until Elvis sorted out a deal for the Get Happy!! album. WEA, who had distributed Radar, were less than delighted: they felt they had a steak in Costello's career by virtue of the success of the records they had distributed for him, and so they obtained a court injunction to stop the 2-Tone single being sold. By March '80, the situation was clarified: F-Beat was set up by Riviera as an independent company, but WEA continued to distribute their records. In the meantime, there were several thousand 2-Tone singles to dispose of. These were handed out free to the audience at a London's Rainbow Theatre gig. Several months later, Riviera pressed up a few thousand more of the 2-Tone singles, and these were given away at London and US gigs. By this time, however, the single had been issued with the catalogue no. F-Beat XX-1. As this new number had replaced the 2-Tone number in the run-off grooves, the second batch of 2-Tone singles carried the F-Beat number, whereas the original copies had 'TT-7' as their matrix number. Copies from the first batch are now worth about twice as much ones from the second."
- According to Krista Reese's EC book the total number of 2-Tone singles pressed was 13,000, and the remaining copies were sold at NY Palladium 1981 concerts for $3.00 each.
- It seems that some copies of the 2-Tone 'reissue' have 'CHS TT7' and 'XX1' in the runoff, and also 'CHS TT8' crossed out on both sides.
