Had Me a Real Good Time

"Had Me a Real Good Time" is side two, track one of Long Player, 5:50, with Stewart singing lead. It was released as a single in November 1970 in an earlier mix, with the instrumental "Rear Wheel Skid" on the B-side; that mix runs 3:49 and appears only on the single and the early vinyl of the 1976 US compilation Snakes and Ladders / The Best of Faces. An instrumental prototype, "Sham-Mozzal" (Jones, Lane, McLagan and Wood), was added to the 2015 reissue. Joe Marchese called it a Fats Waller-inspired standout rocker embellished with horns that best captures the album's warmhearted party vibe. Wikipedia's song list dates it 1971, though the single was out in 1970.

The BBC recorded it four times: Top Gear on September 19, 1970, Sounds of the Seventies on May 3, 1971, and John Peel's Sunday Concert on May 23, 1971 and February 26, 1972, all unreleased until the 2024 set. Setlist.fm counts 24 performances. Ron Wood and the Jones Gang and Hell Cat have covered it, and Cockney 'N' Westerns released it as a single, and it was performed in the Rod Stewart musical Tonight's the Night. We found no chart history for the single and no interview about the song's meaning, and cannot tell which version our upload carries.