Dave Edmunds - I Knew The Bride/Back To Schooldays, Swan Song SSK 19411

"I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)" is a song written by Nick Lowe and first popularized by Dave Edmunds. It was released on Edmunds's 1977 album Get It and a year later in a live version by Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Shop on Live Stiffs Live, a compilation released by Stiff Records.

 

Single sold in company sleeve                         Plain sleeve issue

The single was released in UK in a foldback black company sleeve with white Swan Song logo as well as in a plain white sleeve; with solid or push-out centers. 

  

Side 1 with solid centre.                                                 Side 2 with push-out centre

Swan Song SSK 19411 - I Knew The Bride/Back To Schooldays... 6GBP

Lowe performed the song during a Stiff Records European tour with Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, and Larry Wallis; the tour was filmed for the 1981 documentary If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck. In 1985, Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit recorded a studio version for the album The Rose of England. This version is quite atypical, in that it was produced by Huey Lewis (of "and the News"), who is featured on harmonica. Lewis was an old friend from Lowe’s Pub Rock days, when he fronted the band Clover that helped establish the Pub Rock circuit in London and vicinity.

Edmunds released several live versions over the years, from 1987’s I Hear You Rockin’, to 1999’s KIng Biscuit Flour Hour Presents, to 2005’s Live and Pickin’, and 2011’s A Pile of Rock Live. He also released a remixed studio version on 1999’s Hand Picked Musical Fantasies, and the original recording appeared on many of his compilation releases, including 1981’s The Best of Dave Edmunds, 1994’s Chronicles, 2004’s From Small Things: The Best of Dave Edmunds and 2008’s The Many Sides of Dave Edmunds: The Greatest Hits and More.

1977 German edition 7" single (SS 19411) features picture sleeve

Live versions featuring Edmunds and Lowe harmonizing appeared on two albums from Rockpile, the group featuring both singers, as well as Billy Bremner and Terry Williams. The official release was on the Live at Montreux 1980 album in 2011, but the song was also on the much earlier bootleg album They Call It Rock from the late 1970s.