Afterglow of Your Love
| "Afterglow of Your Love" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| B-side | "Wham Bam Thank You Mam" |
"Afterglow of Your Love" is the unauthorized final single released in 1969 by the English rock group Small Faces. The song managed to reach No. 36 in the UK Singles Charts. The song was originally titled just "Afterglow" on the album on which it first appeared in 1968, Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake.
In March 1969 the Small Faces officially broke up, with Steve Marriott going on to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton and Greg Ridley.
Andrew Loog Oldham almost immediately released an unauthorized final single by the group called "Afterglow of Your Love", a power ballad, (in an alternate version from what had originally appeared on Ogdens) with the contrasting rock-sounding B-side "Wham Bam Thank You Man".
The single managed to reach No. 36 in the UK charts. The following November, Immediate released a final unauthorized album entitled The Autumn Stone. It included many of their hits, including unreleased material and three live tracks recorded at Newcastle City Hall.[1]
"Afterglow" was recorded at Olympic Studios, London.
"Wham Bam Thank You Mam" was released, under the title "Sparky Rides" or "Sparky Riders", as a Rod Stewart recording on several budget CD compilations.[2]
Cover versions
- Australian singer-songwriter Daryl Braithwaite covered the song in October 1977. The single peaked at number 37 on the Kent Music Report. [3]
- Quiet Riot covered the song on their second album Quiet Riot II (1978), and released a remixed acoustic version on The Randy Rhoads Years (1993).
- Great White covered the song on their 1991 album Hooked
- Flo & Eddie covered the song on the album Flo & Eddie 1973
See also
References
- ^ The Small Faces The Young Mods' Forgotten Story p.139
- ^ http://www.rod-stewart.de/musik/cd/compilationen/60er.htm List of Rod Stewart compilations, with titles revealed
- ^ "Rockportraits Sherbet". rockportraits.com. Retrieved 2 March 2016.