Mercy Mercy [12-inch single]

Description

Mercy Mercy – b/w “Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba” – is a two-sided 33⅓ RPM 12-inch vinyl single by the American rock band The Seventy Sevens, released on Exit Records in 1984, a division of Word, manufactured and distributed by A&M Records (catalogue number WR-17323). Both tracks were taken from the band’s full-length album All Fall Down released on Exit Records the same year (manufactured and distributed by both Word and A&M Records), recorded by Daryl Zachman with Steve Griffith at The Warehouse’s Sangre Studios in Sacramento, California; with Charlie Peacock producing. Mixed by Zachman, Patrick Cyccone, and David Coe at Salty Dog Studios in Van Nuys, California. The titled track was written by band members Michael Roe and Mark Proctor with the track on the flip-side co-written by Roe, G. Mascoli, and D. Saterlee.

The Seventy Sevens – “Mercy, Mercy” Video

Lord, oh Lord. If this is Christian video, then give me more, more, more. The Seventy Sevens (there must be a biblical reference there somewhere) are a red-hot rockabilly cum roots band that would be more at home on the hellish Slash label than their currently heavenly bound Exit Records. In a capsule, the band sends up that frontier fundamentalist image with a fervoured, pulpit-pounding preacher of a lead singer who trembles and twitches as he extols his pioneer congregation and pleads for “mercy, mercy” from high. Some horned demons round out the plot and, of course, good triumphs in the end. A startling departure from this viewer’s expectations, and what a rockin’ band! – Kevin Doran

While «Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba» took an approach like that of the first album, by attacking the prevalence of cults in our society, the lyrics took a more artful stance, looking at the insecurities within us all that make these false religions so attractive to some. [Brian Q. Newcomb, 1 2 3 Box Set, Via Records 1995]

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12-inch Vinyl Single tracklist:

Side A. “Mercy Mercy” – 2:50
Side B. “Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba” – 4:14

Note: Promotional Copy – Not For Sale. Issued in a black generic sleeve with purple hype sticker on the front in upper right hand corner. “Mercy Mercy” was also released as a 7-inch vinyl single by Exit Records featuring the same track on both sides (catalogue number WW-2736), manufactured and distributed by A&M Records. (DJ promo pressed on translucent audiophile vinyl.)

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“Mercy Mercy” from the All Fall Down album by the 77’s was among the new videos on MTV as of February 12, 1986, according to the MTV Programming list featured in the February 22, 1986 issue of Billboard Magazine.