Saturday, October 16, 2021

Week 1: BGO Single (Where it began!)

In October 1981, after Buie/Geller failed to get a major record label interested in Buckner & Garcia's new song about the video game craze, they published it on their own label. BG-1001 was "Pac-Man Fever" with the instrumental version on the B side. The 45 was only released in the Atlanta area. Despite this, copies are not overly hard to find today thanks to sites like eBay and Discogs.


"Pac-Man Fever" BGO single, side A
"Pac-Man Fever (Inst.)" BGO single, Side B

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