Hits Based on '60s Garage Songs

[Outside_Lookin_in]

This is a thread to call out hits of the post-60s garage era, which have 'borrowed' from garage songs. A prime example is the Hilltop Hoods - 'Cosby sweater', which samples Wimple Winch - 'Save my soul'. Today I was listening to Talking Heads - And she was. I'm very sure it's a reworking of an American '60s garage song I've heard, but I can't place it. Anyone?

 

[bosshoss]

This is a thread to call out hits of the post-60s garage era, which have 'borrowed' from garage songs. A prime example is the Hilltop Hoods - 'Cosby sweater', which samples Wimple Winch - 'Save my soul'. Today I was listening to Talking Heads - And she was. I'm very sure it's a reworking of an American '60s garage song I've heard, but I can't place it. Anyone?

Well it's kind of "Little Latin Lupe Lu" regurgitated together with "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You". Obvious Neil Diamond influences. And the main riff has some similarities to the Romantics "What I Like About You", (including the opening "Hey"!) which came out 6 years earlier.

It's also interesting to note that the 7 seconds of silence at the beginning of the track is by far the "most replayed" part.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

I've never really listened to Neil Diamond before, thinking that he was all bad, and now I've found a song by him that I like!

It's actually the chorus (44 - 58 seconds etc) on And She Was which sounds pretty much identical to the song I'm trying to recall.

 

[Hallucalation]

I've never really listened to Neil Diamond before, thinking that he was all bad, and now I've found a song by him that I like!

It's actually the chorus (44 - 58 seconds etc) on And She Was which sounds pretty much identical to the song I'm trying to recall.

His Bang era from 1966-1967 is prime stuff! Andrew Sandoval made me a fan of his early stuff. He went MOR soon after

https://www.discogs.com/release/13958872-Neil-Diamond-The-Bang-Years-1966-1968

 

[greenfuzz]

Agreed. His Bang sides are mostly great.