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Albums

• Cold Fact March 1970 (USA, 1971 in South Africa)
• Coming From Reality November 1971
• After The Fact 1976 re-issue of Coming From Reality in South Africa only
• At His Best 1977 compilation album with 3 previously unreleased tracks released in Australia and New Zealand only
• Alive 1981 live album recorded in 1979 and released in Australia and New Zealand only
• The Best Of Rodriguez 1982 re-issue of At His Best in South Africa only
• Live Fact 1998 live album recorded during the 1998 South African tour
• All The Facts 2005 3CD set released by Sony Music South Africa, catalogue number CDBOX 58. Consists of the 2002 re-issues of 'Cold Fact' and 'After The Fact' plus the 1998 live CD 'Live Fact'.
• Sugarman: The Best Of Rodriguez September 2005

Singles

• I'll Slip Away/ You'd Like To Admit It (Impact 1031) August 1967 released as Rod Riguez
• Inner City Blues/ Forget It (Sussex SUX 204) 1970 (USA)
• To Whom It May Concern/ I Think Of You (Sussex SUX 234) 1970 (USA)
• To Whom It May Concern/ I Think Of You (A&M 7SX-1008) 1972 (Brazil)
• Sugar Man/ Inner City Blues (Blue Goose BGMS 002) 1977 (Australia)
• Climb Up On My Music/ To Whom It May Concern (Blue Goose MS 309) 1978 (Australia)
• Sugar Man/ Tom Cat by Muddy Waters (13 Amp Records AMP7001) April 2002 (UK)

Info on USA 3 single releases from Tim Forster, January 2001. Info on Brazilian single from Weber, June 1998. Info on Australian singles from Jeff Smith, December 2001. Info on 2002 single from John Samson, March 2002

On the cover of the 1991 South African CD re-issue of Cold Fact is a "flash" with these words: "featuring the hits I Wonder, Sugar Man and Inner City Blues". To the best of my knowledge these tracks were never actually released as singles in South Africa.

Additional info:

• I'll Slip Away (Impact 1031), August 1967 (USA) credited to Rod Riguez (Sixto D. Rodriguez), released on The Best Of Impact Records CD (Collectables COL-5883) in November 1997. Released as a bonus track on Sugarman: The Best Of Rodriguez in September 2005.
  
  Cash Box, September 23, 1967 Rod Riguez could make a name for himself with this bluesy, mid-tempo rock ballad. Keep it in sight. Flip: "You'd Like To Admit It".
  
  

  This is a different version to the track released on the 2 "Best Of" compilations. It features more upfront Byrds-type jangly guitar, vocal harmonies and a subdued organ in the background. The strings that are so prominent on the later version are absent here.
  
  
  
  

  I'll Slip Away: As far as the Rodriguez Impact single, "I'll Slip Away" is concerned, I would highly suspect that both sides of that single were probably recorded at Terra Shirma Studios, since most of all of the later Impact records were recorded there. But it is possible that it may have been recorded at United Sound Studios in Detroit, since Harry Balk recorded many of his artists there as well.
  
  The "B" side of the Impact 45, "I'll Slip Away" is a song titled, "You'd Like To Admit It". Both sides were produced by Harry Balk (the owner of Impact). To my knowledge, the record was only issued as a "promotional" 45, and not sold commercially to the public (see note below). The record is "near-impossible" to find, due to the fact that few copies were pressed, and Impact records went out of business shortly after the record was released. By the way, the song, "You'd Like To Admit It" was also written by Rodriguez.
  
  I'm afraid that I can't help you out with the lyrics to the song (read them here), "You'd Like To Admit It", because I don't own a copy of the single. In my many years of collecting records, I have only seen ONE copy of that record for sale, and it was much too expensive for me to buy. (IT WAS ABOUT $175.00 U.S. DOLLARS!)...
  -- Jerry Schollenberger, "Best of Impact Records" CD producer, May 1999

  
  
  
  Read some more comments from Jerry here...
  
  More info about The Best Of Impact Records CD can be found here.
  
  Read Tim Forster's article about these Impact releases here.

  I can confirm that a regular (NOT a promo) release of Impact #1031 does exist. A speculation to the contrary exists on your Sixto R. page. Thanx for the info on this artist that you supplied; you have added to my enjoyment of record collecting, and listening.
  -- Steve Jones, Canada, August 2003

  Impact-era Rodriguez compositions:

  • I'll Slip Away (Sixto D. Rodriguez)
    © Gomba, April 20, 1967, released on Impact 1031 A, August 1967
    Produced by Harry Balk
    
    
  • You'd Like To Admit It (Sixto D. Rodriguez)
    © Gomba, April 20, 1967, released on Impact 1031 B, August 1967
    Produced by Harry Balk
    
    
  • Forget It (Sixto D. Rodriguez)
    © Gomba, April 20, 1967
    
    
  • That Discotheque (Sixto D. Rodriguez)
    © Gomba, April 20, 1967
    
    
  • To Whom It May Concern (Vocal) (Sixto D. Rodriguez)
    © Gomba, April 20, 1967
    
    
  • To Whom It May Concern (Instrumental) (Sixto D. Rodriguez)
    © Gomba, April 20, 1967
  
  
  
• I Think Of You/ To Whom It May Concern
  (A&M 7SX-1008), 1972 (Brazil) single released in Brazil only and both sides played on local radio.

  My name is Weber and I'm impressed to find something about Rodriguez on the Net. I live in Brazil, where the song 'I Think Of You' was a success. I didn't know that he's got other albums, I only got 'Coming From Reality'. Here in my place the music 'I Think Of You' played several times on the radio stations in 1972 & 73. About that year I purchased the single 'I Think Of You/ To Whom It May Concern'. The B-side played too on the radio. I got the LP 'Coming From Reality' but I get this years after the single.
  - Weber, Brazil, June 1998