Junior Walker had a very distinctive sax style. The group's biggest hit was probably Shotgun but this was also very popular.
Deon Jackson was pretty much a one-hit wonder with this gem. I love the references to what have to be people he really knows.
We could do a week on these guys. More Spencer Davis Group! Their biggest hit. Feel free to add more. :-)
Another 1966 song that we played over and over at parties. These are all 1966, by the way. What's that instrument? Fuzz bass? Guitar?
Carla Thomas had had a big hit years earlier with "Gee Whiz", maybe the sexiest song ever recorded. Here, five years later, she scores with a song that you can dance close to.
Slim Harpo was a bluesman who somehow rode high on the pop charts! "I know you can do it, so baby, get to it!"
Anyone know anything about the Capitols? I sure don't. All I know is we did The Jerk to The Cool Jerk. I notice that the kids have a new dance that appears to be called the Jerk but we know this one here is the real one.
Then sometimes after we had danced for a couple of hours (no wonder we were thinner then!) we'd sit down and talk or make out or whatever and listen to songs like this one from Manfred Mann.
Another good listening song from the Left Banke. On a personal note, when I was starting my career as a young teenager I received words of encouragement from Mike Brown, who wrote this tune. That was pretty cool.
