FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #29: Pump Up The Valium
THEM “Gloria” b/w “Baby, Please Don’t Go” (Parrot Records #9727, 1964-65)
I’m pressed for time, so this installment will have to be brief, but this record doesn’t need a whole lot of words anyway. We are gathered here today, my friends, to celebrate one of the hands-down greatest, purest rock ‘n’ roll singles of all time: “Gloria” (also known as “G-L-O-R-I-A!”) by early-’60’s Irish rockers Them.  Written by the band’s singer, a then-unknown young upstart named Van Morrison, […]