Extra Gimme Gimmes

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Extra Gimme Gimmes is another album of covers by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released – apparently at one time – through places such as amazon.com (according to www.last.fm). The songs that do not appear on previous albums come from the original 7"s put out on independent punk labels across the United States and Canada. Many of these songs have also appeared on compilation records for their respective labels (For example "[Only the Good die Young]" appears on Punk-o-Rama 2 on Epitaph, while it comes from [Billy] a limited edition 7" they released on Epitaph in 1995).

A tag from the album listing on http://musicbrainz.org suggests the album is a "bootleg". Currently it is not known whether Extra Gimme Gimmes is an "official" or "unofficial" bootleg.

More contributions of information about the nature, origins & relavance of the album is requested.

The album is made up of Hits of the '60's, '70's & '80's.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Hats Off to Larry" (Del Shannon)
2. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (Elton John)
3. "The Boxer" (Paul Simon)
4. "The Times They Are Changin'" (Bob Dylan)
5. "America" (Neil Diamond)
6. "I Write The Songs" (Barry Manilow)
7. "Only the Good Die Young" (Billy Joel)
8. "You've Got a Friend" (James Taylor)
9. "Country Roads" (John Denver)
10. "Rich Girl" (Hall & Oates)
11. "Mother & Child Reunion" (Paul Simon)
12. "Father & Son" (Cat Stevens)

(Original performers/writers are shown in parenthesis)

addition: the tracks in question are from the 7" vinyl b-sides

01 - Country Roads 02 - Mother and Child Reunion 03 - Only the Good Die Young 04 - The Boxer 05 - America 06 - You've got a Friend 07 - I Write The Songs 08 - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me 09 - The Times They are a 'Changin' 10 - Father And Son 11 - Hats off to Larry 12 - Rich Girl 13 - I Just called to Say I Love You 14 - The Harder They Come 15 - I Believe I Can Fly (Single Version) 16 - Ben