Saturday Originals
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Album:There's Gonna Be A Storm: Complete Recordings 1966-69
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Once again, I take my lead from Baudolino when he declares Saturday the day for playing originals of songs made famous by somebody else.
This is a very obvious one, but precisely because it's so obvious, I cannot resist it. I know the Left Banke had a fair-sized hit with it in the US in 1966, but in the UK it was the Four Tops who had the hit in 1968 - I didn't even know this wasn't a Tops original until about 20 years later when I heard a Left Banke album, and was an instant convert.
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Are you going to post the bizarre connection between the Left Banke and Spinal Tap, that I revealed on your blog a few months back?
OK then
Thanks to Baudolino for this piece of highly esoteric information :-
Michael McKean (who played David St Hubbins in “This is Spinal Tap”) sang on the Left Banke’s single “Suddenly” b/w “Ivy Ivy” in 1968. The record was made by keyboardist Michael Brown and a bunch of session musos, was boycotted by the fan club, and got next to no radio play.
Still the greatest version of this song. Very weird McKean factoid....
The left banke had a big hit with this, it hit #5 and the four tops was #14 at a time when a lot of motown artists were doing their own covers of hit songs.One of my favorite songs of 1966.I always wondered what happened to Renee
Here in the US, I never even knew that the 4 Tops covered it. So now you can put their version on Sunday Covers.