So Long, Bannatyne


So Long, Bannatyne is the eighth studio album by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who, released in 1971 by RCA Records.

Background

The album's title track includes the words:
So long Bannatyne, hello my Chevrier home.
The album's packaging and title track illustrate a transition in the life of Guess Who guitarist Kurt Winter moving from the city to the suburbs. The front cover has the words "So Long, Bannatyne" and shows the band dressed casually around a red Chevrolet with a Manitoba license plate in front of The Bannatyne Apartments (located at 545 Bannatyne Avenue in the band's hometown of Winnipeg. The back cover has the words "Hello My Chevrier Home" and shows the band now dressed more formally with the same red Chevy in the back of a home located on Chevrier Avenue, about 5 miles from downtown Winnipeg.

Track listing

All songs written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter except noted.
;Side one
  1. "Rain Dance" - 2:45
  2. "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl" - 3:13
  3. "Goin' a Little Crazy" - 6:59
  4. "Fiddlin'" - 1:06
  5. "Pain Train" - 3:45
  6. "One Divided" - 2:38
;Side two
  2. "Grey Day" - 4:16
  3. "Life in the Bloodstream" - 3:10
  4. "One Man Army" - 3:55
  5. "Sour Suite" - 4:08
  6. "So Long, Bannatyne" - 5:55
;Bonus Tracks :
  2. "Albert Flasher" - 3:06
  3. "Broken" - 2:44

    8-Track

Track 1: "Life in the Bloodstream", "Fiddlin'", "So Long, Bannatyne"
Track 2: "Rain Dance", "Sour Suite", "Pain Train"
Track 3: "One Divided", "One Man Army", "Grey Day"
Track 4: "She Might Have Been a Nice Girl", "Goin' a Little Crazy"

Personnel

;The Guess Who
;Additional personnel
Album
YearChartPeak Position
1971Billboard 20052

Singles
YearSingleChartPosition
1971"Rain Dance"Canada3
1971"Rain Dance"Australia55
1971"Rain Dance"Billboard Hot 10019
1971"Sour Suite"Canada12
1971"Sour Suite"Billboard Hot 10050
1972"Life in the Bloodstream"Canada39