I never get far with my ‘All Time Top 10
Favourite Records’ lists before I want to extend it to Top 20 or 30, or divide
it into specific music genres or eras.
But if it ever became a matter of survival, I’m pretty sure that this
record would be on the shortlist:
To me it’s almost a perfect 45, it’s got just about
everything going for it, and I never get tired of hearing it. Although it comes
from what some people regard as the post Rock & Roll /pre-Beatles dead zone
that preceeded the real golden age of pop, it has many elements that you find
on highly-regarded 7” singles from the 1960’s:
