… I just downloaded from Napster your version of “Twist And Shout.” What the fuck were you thinking?
And how many of your bandmates were hitting puberty when you recorded that?
Or is that the track where you got felated laying down a vocal line?
I have half a dozen other songs of yours, and I like most of them. But this made both Drain Bead and myself laugh our asses off, but only because we knew we could turn it off…
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Hmmm, for those who want the lyrics here they are. Kinda funny sounding since they say ‘ah’ a lot. I wonder if that is a clue? Plus, what’s all this ‘shaking’? hmmmm? Plus working it on out [come out]? Hmmmm I can only imaging but I wont.
Twist And Shout
The Beatles
Peak Position: #23
Year: 86
Bert Russell/Phil Medley
Well, shake it up baby now
Twist and shout
Come on, come on, come, come on baby now
Come on and work it on out
Well work it on out, honey
You know you look so good
You know you got me goin´ now
Just like I know you would
Well, shake it up baby now
Twist and shout
Come on, come on, come, come on baby now
Come on and work it on out
You know you twist, little girl
You know you twist so fine
Come on and twist a little closer now
And let me know that you´re mine, woo
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Yeah, shake it up baby now
Twist and shout
Come on, come on, come, come on baby now
Come on and work it on out
You know you twist, little girl
You know you twist so fine
Come on and twist a little closer now
And let me know that you´re mine
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now
A song, I might add, written by the Isley Brothers,
who toured England with the Beatles in the early
60’s. Giving credit where credit is due to people
who know me. Rudy & Elaine have told me some
great stories of that tour.
Beelzebub! you know that I have admired you from afar lo these many months so I guess I owe you an explanation about that song.
When we recorded that song we had been doing it live for a long time. Mostly because of request from audiences at drunken beer joints ( commonly called clubs.) So when we ran short of original material for an album, Twist and Shout seemed like a viable soloution to fill up a 33 and a 1/3 platter which usually contained 10-12 cuts. However at that moment in time the testostrone was running a plenty and I am afraid that it showed in a maniacal way on that cut. I believe that the song… no wait I know that song was recorded in one take.
It has since been my conviction that if you are going to cover a song such as the beatles did with this isley brothers hit, one should do at least as good a job if not better than the original artist. I am afraid that our cut met none of those criteria, however it **is ** a good example of how we may have sounded live in 1966.
One would have had to live in the 60’s, be 19 years old, and loaded to the gils to understand some of the things that we did. And of no small mention would be the poontain factor which aways seem to become more plentiful when we played that song live.
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