Mostly B Sides #MusicMovesMe

It's Monday and it's time for music!

Let's introduce the Music Moves me bloggers:  We blog about music each Sunday or Monday and if you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only-meaning at least one music video, please! Otherwise, your post may be removed, or may  be labeled "No Music".)   Our head host is Xmas Dolly, and our co-hosts are Cathy from Curious as a Cathy, joined by the knowledgeable Stacy of Stacy Uncorked and, last but not least, ME.

We have a guest host this month-Mary Burris from "Jingle Jangle Jungle". 

For today, she has chosen the theme of "You Pick" so we get to post whatever music we want.

And my picks, as they sometimes are, may be a little eclectic.  My theme is "B" sides.  Back in the days when songs were released on 45 rpm singles (one song on one side, one song on the other side), the A side held the song that the label thought would be the hit, and the B side was usually something they didn't expect to do that well, or at least less well as the A side.

Sometimes, B sides became hits.  Sometimes, they even became bigger hits than the A side.

Here are several B sides for your consideration.

Nowadays, there really isn't such a thing (as far as I know!) and, in a way, it's too bad.

The Beatles and "She's a Woman".  This song was the B side of "I Feel Fine" and I loved both these songs, but I loved "She's a Woman" more. 

The Rolling Stones released their hit "The Last Time" with a B side "Play with Fire" which may be one of the lessor known Rolling Stones song (I never seem to hear it) but I have always loved this song.  Here it is,  from 1965. Fun fact, its title was originally "Mess with Fire".

Simon and Garfunkel released "Cecelia" as an A side in 1970.  I have to admit, it may be one of my least favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs (and I couldn't tell you why).  But, its B side?  "The Only Living Boy in New York", a song I Love with a capital L.

The Pretenders released "Back on the Chain Gang" as an A side in 1982.  On the B side was a song that is perhaps my favorite Pretenders song:  "My City Was Gone". The city in question was Akron, Ohio.

The song "How Soon is Now" from the Smiths was originally a B side, released in 1984.  Eventually, it was released as an A side in both Great Britain and the United States because...well, because.  And that's why I have to title my post "Mostly B Sides"- because this song was both a B side and an A side.

Go figure.

And that's a wrap!

Join me again next week for another episode of Music Moves Me.