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The Four Tops "Shake Me, Wake Me When It's Over"

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"Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" written by Holland--Dozier--Holland and released as a single by the Four Tops on the Motown label. reached number eighteen on the US Pop Singles chart and number five on the R&B singles chart in 1966. Personnel on the recording included Levi Stubbs on lead vocal, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, and The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps) on background vocals, and instrumentation by The Funk Brothers.



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Billy Joel - Keeping the Faith (Official Video)


Such innocent, light-hearted humor seems so long ago as to be considered ancient compared to today's sense of reality.

Yesterday was preferable in many ways.
 
Chambers Bros - Let's Do It (Do It Together) 1969


It's been decades since I last heard this. And it was once my favorite song on the radio.
 
Eminence Front · The Who


If you are not familiar with the song, wait until you get to about 1:00 before you decide to pass on this kick ass number because it doesn't really get going until :40, and the singing doesn't start until @ 2:00.
 
Aqualung · Jethro Tull


A sentimental inclusion on the list. I spent some good times with this song playing in the background.
 
Rare Earth Get Ready 1973


I never liked Rare Earth much because I always thought they were trying to sound, "Black."

But when I watched this recently, I was won over on the merits of the performance without any other consideration.

It works.

Great number.
 
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (2006 Remaster Full-Length) · Iron Butterfly


IRON BUTTERFLY IN-A -GADDA- DA-VIDA~IN HD BEST FULL VERSION
The song is considered significant in rock history because, together with music by Blue Cheer, Jimi Hendrix and Steppenwolf, it marks the time period when psychedelic music began to form heavy metal. In 2009, it was named the 24th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.
A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally "In the Garden of Eden", but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle got drunk and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and could not clearly distinguish what Ingle said when he asked him for the song's title. An alternate explanation given in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album, is that Ingle was drunk, high, or both, when he first told Bushy the title, and Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.
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