IV Playlist - LA Times blog

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:45 PM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can I recommend not including the Ohio Express song on your playlist?
> I haven't hit 'skip' so many times in years. It's even worse than I
> remember.

"YYY" isn't a favorite of mine, either, even so far as OE tracks go.
Try "Beg, Borrow and Steal" (originally released [as] by The Rare
Breed, but it's the same recording; not to be confused, however, with
the Mouse and The Traps track later covered--brilliantly--as "Lie,
Beg, Borrow and Steal" by The Plimsouls) and/or "Mercy" instead, maybe
"Down at Lulu's," not to mention their kickass cover of The Standells'
"Try It" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8UpHeo0ag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX-nHcgnBLM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rK6aowxlsk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRNRUcY6svY

... but do note/recall that IV refers specifically to a (nonexistant,
so far as I know, or can find, online, at least) Herb Alpert
arrangement/recording of the song.  Sonny Stitt, on the other hand,
DID record Crazy Elephant's "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" ...