Here are a few (more) of my favorite B-sides

Here’s Part 2 of my ongoing trawl through my 45s for some favorite flip sides. (Part 1 ran last December.) As with the last batch, I limited myself to songs that did not appear on an album, save for a later reissues or compilations. Most of these records were “lovingly handled” before I ever got hold of them, but that’s part of the fun.

“What’s more heroic than the survival of the B-side?” I asked back in December.

Ever since RCA released the first 45 rpm single in 1949, the flip side to the “plu...