Okay, I'm seven or eight years old and I hear this song maybe once or twice, then it vanishes. It got to the point that I thought I imagined it; as if I had made it up in my head. Was this song an opening theme to a cartoon? An early version of Grape Ape? Was I in the band in a past lifetime? (that doesn't make sense, seeing as this was released in 1965 and I was alive)
Fast forward to 2009 and 2010. I see a retro garage band performing this on youtube. Now, I gotta find out who did the original and where it is - or where it went. Turns out that it was originally sang by The Ideals, then was covered many times by local garage bands during the 60's, back when all one needed was a group of high school friends that really had no technical proficiency on their instruments and bam! next thing you know your band has a local hit 45.
I spent too many years trying to play like Eddie Van Halen, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and The Vaughn Brothers. A waste, a waste, and a waste.
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