BLAST FROM MY PAST

Since I've still got ABBA on the brain, and since today, in the process of clearing out my storage space in Brooklyn, I unloaded all of my CDs, LPs, cassettes and 45s, I thought I'd post a very special MP3, the B-side of "The Winner Takes It All," one of the first 45s I ever bought. I've always liked it better than the hit, which Meryl Streep so thoroughly massacred in Mamma Mia. At least during the scene she looked better than she ever has at the Oscars.

ABBA: "Elaine" (from Super Trouper)