This ain't no B-Side. It's one of their best tracks. Search for drummers covering this track and you'll see. Bonzo's use of subtlety with ghost notes is one of the most respected among the the drum community.

Just getting started but man, I've got to say, no man these were on the radio all the freaking time. All the time. And so many people own the albums. They were incredibly successful.

Later Led Zeppelin, showing their incredible range. Love this song.

My absolute favorite. The drums on this are absolutely mental.

There's a fair amount of absolutely wonderful piano in Led Zeppelin and the most ironic thing is that the song right before this on the album which is the second song on the album, southbound suarez. It comes right after in the evening which is a tour de force, it is completely piano driven, it's incredible. Later in the song it almost seems like Robert Plant is channeling a young Elvis Presley or something but oh my God and that one leads right into this one which then leads into hot dog and really it's the perfect trifecta. But this one is the crowning achievement and John Bonham is right in the middle of it.

D'yer maker by Zeppelin next!

I was just going to tell you that they had 9 album's all together and everyone of them got into the Billboards top 10 album's during their time of release and they had 16 total hits that got onto the Billboards and the song Whole lotta love got to number 4 on the charts which was their highest that they ever got. They have sold over 300 million album's.

I love that album in the evening I'm gonna crawl, etc. wow

John Bonham on drums is just too good♥️🎶. And Music/songs Ledd Zeppelin has done … is definitely music history EPIC and ICONIC ♥️

You need to wear headphones when you're listening to music

That's on In through the Out Door, from '79 an underrated album imo. Keep up your journey with Led Zeppelin.

I lived in Las Vegas in the late 80s. The rock station was KKLZ “where the LZ stands for Led Zeppelin”. Many of the rock stations were album oriented, so they’d play more than just the singles. Sometimes they’d even play whole albums (or sides).

It is true that there was no B sides when it comes to Led Zeppelin and I can tell you a story to prove this to be true. When I was a teenager I at one point in my life had gotten me a brand new turntable and I was a big collector of 45's and for the young ones that don't know what that means a 45 is a small record that comes with one song on a side and usually it would be a song from a album that the band had put out and they would take their hit song from the album and then they would put it on what they would refer to as the A- side and then they would pick another one from the album and that was the B- side and so I started buying the 45's and then one day I bought my first one of Led Zeppelin on 45 and then I picked up my next two of them from Zeppelin that next week cause they were 99 cents and I would buy 5 of them every Friday and when I got those two that Friday I noticed then that they all said on them A - side on both sides of the 45 and that was because everyone loved every song on their albums that they could not pick out one of them for the B - side so they decided that it would say A- side on both of them.

Oh… our L.A. Radio Rock station… “GET THE LEDD OUT” has always been 👍

I seen an interview with Plant were he talked about "the crediting" thing and he said the attitude at the time was 'if we make it big we'll pay them off, if not no one will care'. So they payed people off. For instance one song they were sued for was "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You". The song had been remade a dozen times and it never did well, zeppelin's version on their first album made the song a hit. When the original artist heard about it 10 years after she sued and zeppelin payed her off. none of the other artist that put out the song were sued.

John Bonham played all the percussion on this song! He played the drums the steel kettle drum The maracas and the whistle warning that it's time signature starting time! There was no guest musicians on this album! On all their albums they only had a couple of guests musicians it's always all Zeppelin!

There's no unidentified musicians on this. They did it all. Yeah its JPJ. Loads of piano numbers with Zep. Latin samba on this one. Bonzo laid the Bernard Purdie Shuffle on this. Page used a guitar synth on the middle passage. Outdoor came out after a long layoff following the death of Plant's five year old son in 1977. And this following his near fatal car accident. So it was a melancholy period for the band. They were in virtual recluse for almost two years, and then finally came out in the summer of 79. Bonham died a year later and that was that.

Re: “commercial sounding” songs from Led Zeppelin, all. If you were a child of the 60s, 70s, 80s they were all on the radio nonstop.

That line in the Wikipedia article about critics heat less Praise on it than earlier albums, is partly true at the time but also partly skewed to fit a narrative. But yeah it was so different from them but once again once you look at it, they were moving on rapidly and really making it so fantastic. Just like so many things like was Ringo Starr a good drummer or not for the beatles, a lot of these things had people that were challenged by new things at the time struggling to describe it, but when you look back through history there are a lot of ways to see how incredible some of this stuff was that got less enthusiasm than normal at first. Which is still a fair amount of enthusiasm anyway.

Dont forget. Led IS not a rock band. But a MUSIC band explore all styles. As british group in a country with a massive Caribbean community, the Caribbean music was in the air in the 70's.....

Unlike other massively popular musical artists (like the Beatles), Led Zeppelin really wasn't a singles band, focusing their attention (for the most part) on albums. That formula fit well with the onset of FM Rock radio which was becoming very popular at the time. FM Rock radio at the time which was aimed at album rock, not pop singles. And despite pleas from their then record label (Atlantic Records), Stairway to Heaven was never released as a single, although it was the most played song on Rock radio for decades, and helped the album Led Zeppelin IV become one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Of course, with the help of Peter Grant, Jimmy Page's original vision of an album oriented rock band would propel Led Zeppelin to being the 5th biggest selling music artist of all time (The Beatles of course are #1). Peace

I believe Bogey with Stu had a piano in it

I actually have a single of Fool in the Rain where it is the A side and Hot Dog is the B side !

I remember hearing this on the radio when I was in college. They also played "All Of My Love" which is also from the same album. From what I've read, JPJ was actually the driving force behind this album because Jimmy Page was deep into his heroin addiction. Most of the songs were worked on by Robert Plant and JPJ, with Jimmy and John coming into the studio when they could. They both were dealing with addiction. I think the big reason the album was not as critically praised is that LZ were constantly changing and experimenting. Everything on this album is so different than everything else they've done. It doesn't mean it's bad, it's just different. And that's why critics hated it. It was different. Even though every time LZ came out with something different, critics pissed on it. But audiences kept going to shows, buying albums and merch, and kept listening to the new stuff. Critics are always behind the times.

Jimmy started Zeppelin to play live even though he's a master in the studio. Radio play was never about the people, it was controlled by critics, labels and $$$.

You need to hear their song, HOT DOG! It's their take on Country music, and it's just a quirky, happy song! Led Zeppelin incorporated all kinds of world music flavors into their songs, which is why they've influenced so many artists and bands, from HEART and GREAT WHITE to P. DIDDY to DOLLY PARTON, and so many more!

As you just said, John Bonham absolutely slaves on this, and sadly, this was literally their last album together before he died. I think every song on it is a gym but at any point, a lot of them got played on the radio a lot and I love so many of them. They were just maturing but still rocking hard.

Love this song

When this album came out a lot of Zep fans didn't like it but it got heavy play on MY car stereo!

Surprised my steering wheel survived all the abuse from drumming along to this fantastic song.

P.S. That is THE "Les Paul" on the cover of the album he is the Bartender ha Kick Ass!

There's many Zeppelin songs that have piano on them! Such as no quarter and many more tracks! And Jimmy Page didn't want to be a singles hit songs! Jimmy wanted to be a whole album hit band which they were! Their albums always hit the top of the charts! Many albums went Diamond!

It's in my top ten zep songs, theres no such thing as a bside for zeppelin there are no bad songs except for the amazing " Hey Hey (what can I do) which was only released as a bside on the 45 of "The Immigrant Song". 9

They did credit him. John Bonham on percussion.

They did it all.. Uncredited means their friends and family that were hanigng around and adding sounds. There comes a time where you can't name or can't remember everyone. These guys took advantage of every sound concept around them. Yes, Bonham is amazing and without bands like Zep, the black blues players of the south wouldn't be remembered..

Bonzo doing a perdy shuffle, genius!!

Great shuffle from JB!

OMG **BEST BAND EVER!!!** no b sides & NO bad songs imo OH & ha YES this was played on the Radio ALL the time along with lots of others also the Rock Radio Stations almost ALL had a "Get The Led Out" day of the week ha Enjoy!

Samba beat!

Ian Stewart played piano on some LZ songs.

Best part is the ending, when he realizes he didn't meet the girl because the fool was on the wrong street.

Myyyyy faaaaavvvoorite🙆‍♀️🤩

Despite intense pressure from the industry, Stairway was never released as a single. So was never a side-anything.

I was thinking to myself it sounded a lot like the Gumbay festival from the Bahamas.

This is a new Era for them cause a lot of the bands were embracing the sound of Keyboards and Synthesizers and so they decided that they would try to introduce new sounds into their music just like a lot of the other ones were doing to try to keep up with the times.

Mr John Bonham’s drumming is fantastic. He’s playing a master class shuffle /8th note triplets I’ve been trying to correctly play this song since it came out and I’ve come to the obvious conclusion that I ain’t no John Bonham. 😂

I think Hot Dog has a piano in it as well.

Led Zeppelin only put out a handful of singles, they for the most part only sold albums, which really was brilliant. The only thing was, many of their really great songs, were rarely if at all played on the radio. Out of all their albums & songs, I only have 2 songs I don’t care for, all the others I love. I don’t believe there’s many bands you can say that about, that’s why they are the greatest band ever. While fans loved them, critics seemed to hate everything about them, especially Rolling Stone magazine. Negative comments by other bands, was pure jealousy.

There are NO SIDE A OR B because their manager refused to have 45's issued. All their songs were bought as albums except for a few bootleged 45's. Had to be released as a single to get on the top 100

Page never got credit for his work as a session musician nor did JPJ they where on many great albums

Samba ❤

Bonz. ❤❤❤

Please do Bron y ar stomp,brilliant song.

one of my favorite Zeppelin songs. It shows their tremendous musical ability to change it up and still be awesome. This album was written and produced mostly by JPJ and Plant. read this... link below. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Through_the_Out_Door

Just to let you know there is no side B on Led Zeppelin. It’s side A and A+ now I could listen to your awesome reaction

that album was mostly Plant and JPJ inspired Page was hooked on heroin bonem was a full alcoholic at this point and this was JPJ and Plant moving forward with it Page felt like he was a session musician on this album Bonham was drunk and still it worked

One of the best b-sides of all time was from Zeppelin, who never released "singles." The coolest gem to hear on rock radio back in the day was "Hey Hey, What Can I Do?" One of their best tracks, and before the box set came out in 1990, you could only hear it if it was on the radio.

JpJ likely did alot of the other instrumentation through his synthesiser.

They had a single from every album in the US , Atlantic Records issued them but the band did not like singles ,especially Jimmy I assume ..

I really appreciate you but I think you're getting a lot of that last part wrong. It wasn't like they were doing these professional incredible sessions and hiring people they didn't know and never crediting them. This was a burst of energy and they were pulling in people that they thought would be fun to jam with or that expressed an interest. And yeah it was chaotic. I'm pretty sure there was zero attempt to shortchange anybody.

There about 5 different album covers for that LP. They are all in the same bar room but taken from different areas of the room. Cool,eh? I have one.

i don't think anyone credited the session musicians back in the day

They never used session musicians

Your description of Zeppelin is spot on but its not that they have B sides. Nearly all their songs are A sides...they just didn't really release singles as we know them today, and due to the length of most of their songs, there was no radio play for most of them. By the time of In through the out door, Jimmy's heroin addiction was full blown so JPJ did most of the writing and mixing, hence the mix of different genres that appear on this album.

This album was very different from the prier records because Page produced the albums before but was so wacked out on heroin at this point that John Paul and Robert took over.

Below is the link to Plan and Pearl Jam doing this live for the Katrina benefit up in Chicago. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5udlpaCuK_Ip2Q.html

You do understand that you would be hard pressed to find an awful or just bad Zeppelin song? Fun fact on the album cover: you could change the colors by painting with water. I accidentally spilled some water to learn this.

Most records that made it into the charts were …..

Different rhytms? They play a Joropo Venezolano in a first place and then a Samba Brasileira

They are not no island boys 😂😅😮

Hey, hey what can I do, might be B side

Side B ???? A Hell No! Lol😮. No seriously I will let you make your own decision on this!!!!! Bonham in his Magesty

LOVE Zep, never liked this tune. Nice beat by Bonzo and Love Jimmy's solo thru the "Gizmodo?" but it was Disco Zeppelin, IMHO.

Not Caribbean Think Argentina and Brazil and soccer 😉😉😉

I guess I don’t understand what you mean with all the side A and side B stuff? So it can’t be in the literal sense because Zeppelin only released two singles, the last of which was The Immigrant Song with a killer B side Hey Hey What Can Do? I guess you’re just arbitrarily assigning certain songs as B sides, how are you making that determination?

XMOB, dude, try out some Greta Van Fleet. :)