a song that Little Murders used to play a lot back in our Mod days. always led to a stage invasion where the crowd would sing the whoa oh parts that we dropped in to the song. Band got sick of it though and one night at the Tiger Lounge our bass player refused to play at the right speed . actually he kept changing the speed so we couldn't start it properly. That was the last time we played it and in fact the band fell apart soon after. The seeds were sown. The other week we played a 1981 set list to celebrate 30 years of The Tote and though we rehearsed it the band didn't enjoy the breakneck speed and the simple chord progression so it never made it on the night.
I first heard the song through John Lennon's version on Rock and Roll, his cover album. Loved it but later in the seventies I got to hear the original and it knocked John's version out the ball park. Of course it was a soul song with an easy chord progression so it found it's way into my repertoire pretty quickly. I think we did a pretty good version. Oh well.
The songs got plenty of atmosphere. My wifes favourite film used to be Stand By Me too. Damn good film. damn good song.
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