...please enjoy Paul Revere and the Raiders stopming through the quite brilliant roots rocker (with quasi-psychedelic harmonies) "Louise."
And because I love you all more than food, here's a YouTube version of it for the poor unfortunate folks who can't access the Box links I post here.
Incidentally, I can't find any information -- and that includes other songwriting credits -- for the J. L. Kincaid who wrote that tune; I'm asuming he was some Nashville hotshot of the period. If anybody knows for sure, however, I'd appreciate it if you shared.
BEGINNING ON MONDAY: New music by old favorites!!!
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You showed admirable restraint by not posting 'Crisco Party.'
Heh.😀
Gotta be this guy...was in The Rising Suns with Taj Maha & Ry Cooder. http://www.jesseleekincaid.com/about/
Bingo. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/12117/all?sort=date
I love, nay LURVE, the Rising Sons. I can't believe I forgot about that guy.
These guys were so distinctive, but it's hard to say who's the brain behind. Their records used so many session players that the joke around town was they should call themselves Paul Revere and the Raider. Neither Lindsay or Revere strike me as sophisticated musical minds but I'm often wrong about things like that. Could it be Melcher? To paraphrase Neil Young on Tommy James and the Shondells - "They're teenybopper but they're good teenybopper."
The discography on Wikipedia is woefully deficient, but the youtube entry for "Him Or Me – What's It Gonna Be?" lists Melcher as producer, composer, and lyricist. What a great chart! Two more things to like about PR&R: Revere was a conscientious objector during Vietnam and worked for 18 months emptying bedpans at a military hospital; Mark Lindsay, who spent Revere's service time pumping gas in Nowheresville, Oregon, once told an interviewer from Tiger Beat, "I'm not a rock star. I'm too tall to be a rock star."
Yes, I do go on. But there are parallels to my beloved Band. Both groups started out as THE hottest, hardest white R&B band in their respective regions. The Beatles knocked PR&R into the pop realm and Dylan knocked the Hawks into country (and knocked country into the Hawks).
I grew up in SoCal. I loved watching "Where The Action Is", featuring PR&R as the house band.
I feel cheated! More Raiders in the coming week!!!!
Captain Al
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