Bread & Butter (album)

Bread & Butter is the debut album by The Newbeats and was released in 1964. It reached #56 on the Billboard 200.^[3]

Bread & Butter
Studio album by The Newbeats
Released	1964
Genre	Pop rock
Length	26:20
Label	Hickory 120
The Newbeats chronology
Bread & Butter (1964) Big Beat Sounds by The Newbeats (1965)
Singles from Bread & Butter
"Bread and Butter"/"Tough Little Buggy" Released: July 1964 "Everything's Alright"/"Pink Dally Rue" Released: October 1964 "So Fine"/"Top Secret" Released: 1967 "Thou Shalt Not Steal"/"Great Balls of Fire" Released: June 1969

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Record Mirror	[2]

Four singles were released from the album with three of the singles charting in the United States: "Bread and Butter" reached #2,^[4] "Everything's Alright" reached #16,^[5] and "Thou Shalt Not Steal" reached #128.^[6]

Track listing

1. "Bread and Butter" – 1:58 (Larry Parks/Jay Turnbow)
2. "Bye Bye Love" – 2:53 (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant)
3. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" – 2:05 (Rudy Clark)
4. "There Oughta Be a Law (Bout the Stuff I Saw)" – 2:20 (Louis "Dean" Mathias/Marcus F. Mathis/Tress Redmon)
5. "So Fine" – 2:25 (Johnny Otis)
6. "Pink Dally Rue" – 1:57 (Don Gant/Norris Wilson)
7. "Everything's Alright" – 2:10 (John D. Loudermilk)
8. "A Patent on Love" – 2:03 (Larry Henley)
9. "I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)" – 2:17 (Ike Turner)
10. "Tough Little Buggy" – 2:23 (Dave Allen)
11. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" – 1:59 (Loudermilk)
12. "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" – 1:50 (Jimmy Reed)

Charts

Chart (1964)	Peak position
Billboard Top LPs	56

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1964	"Bread and Butter"	Billboard Hot 100	2
		UK Singles Chart	15
		Australia	8
		Canada	1
	"Everything's Alright"	Billboard Hot 100	16
		Australia	53
		Canada	6
1969	"Thou Shalt Not Steal"	Billboard Hot 100	128

References

1. Bread & Butter at AllMusic
2. Jopling, Norman (7 November 1964). "The Newbeats: Bread & Butter" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 191. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
3. The Newbeats, Bread & Butter Retrieved April 28, 2015
4. The Newbeats, "Bread and Butter" US Chart Position Retrieved April 28, 2015
5. The Newbeats, "Everything's Alright" US Chart Position Retrieved April 28, 2015
6. The Newbeats, "Thou Shalt Not Steal" US Chart Position Retrieved April 28, 2015