My Top 1000 Songs #709: Afterglow (Of Your Love)

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

Heading back to one of my favorite albums of the UK psychedelic era, the Small Faces' 1968 masterpiece Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake. "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" is light on the psychedelia, more of a straightforward rocker. It starts out with some old-timey showhall music with a daft call-and-response, a little more in line with the album's whimsy, before Steve Marriott goes all gushy with a passionate love song. It might dip into treacle if the band didn't join in with a full-force delivery, turning "I'm happy just to be with you" into a more universal anthemic proclamation.

Small Faces (and Who) drummer Kenney Jones, with his all-star band, doing a nifty performance at a Ronnie Lane tribute show:

Always been a big fan of the power-popped-up version from ex-Turtles Flo & Eddie: