The secret surprises lurking in my unorganized boxes never
fail to amaze me. I keep telling myself I should pull out the interesting
things and put them all in one respectable, grown‑up box to research later…but honestly, leaving
them scattered feels like Christmas morning engineered by a slightly confused
elf. Every time I open a box, I’m basically gifting myself something I forgot I
owned.
This weekend’s surprise? Hollywood Jills, rising out of a random box like a phoenix who took a wrong turn and ended up in my hit or miss boxes. They started on a tiny New Orleans label before Capitol swooped in like, “We’ll take that!”—only for the whole thing to drift into obscurity. Or so I thought. When Rhino resurrected the “B” side for their 2005 girl‑group box set (still on my to‑pick‑up list, naturally), they treated it as a lost gem worth spotlighting. But I’m presenting it the way Capitol originally intended: A‑side / B‑side, no revisionist reshuffling.
And maybe that’s why it slipped into obscurity in the first place—filed away as a secondary track, never given the oxygen an A‑side gets, left to drift until someone decades later decided it deserved another chance. Capitol got it. Rhino
got it. And now my ears finally get it too, fashionably late but enthusiastically.
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