The B-Side

“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” - Psalm 118:22

The folks at Decca Records had a problem with a song. For all its promotional potential and Decca’s state-of-the-art technology, it was still a lame song. Exacerbating the issue was that the front man and his band were regarded as…unusual.

The song was entitled “Thirteen Women” and, released just nine years after the atomic bomb was first used, fed the z…