Back in the day – way back – my friends and I spent a few winters hanging around the Margate beach bars: dancing, drinking, singing, playing pool, and generally whooping it up. We had a one particularly favorite place and though I can’t quite remember the joint’s name I do remember the juke box.
Five plays for a quarter. Maybe… something like that. We dropped a lot of quarters there and how many ever it was was a good deal since there wasn’t one bad track on that machine.
We all had our favorites. My beau played Mott the Hoople’s “All the Young Dudes” and “One of the Boys” to death; me, I couldn’t get enough of the “Child of the Moon,” It wouldn’t make my top ten Stones songs list today and I don’t think I’ve listened to since but back then it made me happy to hear it. And it made me happy when it popped into my head again after all these years. It’s not country, but it sure sounds like a fan.
ChIld of the Moon” is the B side to “Jumping Jack Flash.”
Are there B sides these days? I guess not. No b sides, no double A sides, no sides period. No sitting pouring over the cover art, no liner notes. So many reasons to appreciate coming up when I did. Would have been a real shame to miss out on getting to listen to records. Which is not the same as not getting to listen to music. Having the whole record thing was good, A sides, B sides, etc. etc. etc., but it’s really about the music besides which just because there’s no sides today’s listening scene offers new delights of its own.
Another B side single was The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” “Wouldn’t it Be Nice” was A. Back in the day you could hold the 45 in your hands and flip it over and over and over, but you couldn’t get a digital download of the BBC Music CGI music-video cover for any of your devices.
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly on art and other stuff 