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 to notice the historical value; he'd just lost his main client 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 Jai Johanny Johanson, 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