Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting/ Jack Rabbit - Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again)

One of Elton John's finest rockers, "Saturday Night's Alright" was the first single from his double-album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It was released a couple of months before the album, which is why there's no mention of it on the 45 label. I guess this actually qualifies as an EP since the B side has two -- ?count 'em TWO -- ?songs, both unreleased non-LP cuts and both well worth the price of admission! "Jack Rabbit" is actually a guitar-led, country rocker that's quite different from anything he ever recorded. Both of the B-side songs are outtakes from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road sessions. (The two tracks eventually made their way onto the 1980 compilation album Lady Samantha.) This is a like-new copy of the light-blue-label MCA reissue on the original catalog number.