Although I first heard this song sung when John lennon sang it on his Rock and Roll album I really fell for it when I got the version by Ben E. King on a big soul album I picked up in the UK in 1979. Not only a great song but a great delivery. It wasn;t long before I got the Little Murders to include in our setlist where it became a bit of crowd favourite. I might have picked it because it was easy to play with only 4 chords and no changes whatsoever. But our crowds loved to sing the wo-oh bits in the chorus.. This led to Mods getting up on stage and singing the bits during the chorus. Which further led to the audience staying on stage dancing along with us. Our gigs in the early eighties always had the audience getting up with the band. We really did become one with the audience. It was absolutely brilliant. yes it was almost exclusively guys but I guess we were pretty much that sort of band. The rest of the band got pretty sick of the song. One night at the Tiger lounge Steve started changing the speed through the song so I knew it was time to put it to bed.
I had a few nice compliments about my singing on it which made me feel good at the time cos I'm not a singer as such. But I seemed to get away with our soul covers. And when we started dropping them in the set no other band on the scene were really doing them. This song pretty much brings back some of those good times.
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