Cover of MUSTANG SALLY in 1966 - knew Mack Rice from his days with The Falcons (along with Eddie Floyd, Willie Schofield and Robert Ward); see also: Mini-Skirt Minnie
Cover of HEY JUDE in 1968 - top 20 R&B & NL; with Duane Allman on guitar; recorded at FAME in Muscle Shoals; Phil Walden was the first one to realise the historical impact; he'd just lost Otis Redding in a plane crash and signed Duane as a solo act on the spot; Phil who'd started his own record company (Capricorn) and studio (with house drummer Jay Johanny Johnson, alias Jaimoe) in Otis's home base Macon, GA urged Duane to form his own band there; Jaimoe was the first one in, so Pickett's Hey Jude was responsible for launching The Allman Brothers Band