Artist: Wilson Pickett
Author: Bert Berns/Jerry Wexler
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1967
On LP The Sound of Wilson Pickett.
Covers:
Edwin Starr [main riff and first lines in Twenty-Five Miles; top 10 US]
Bill Doggett [idem]
Clarence Reid [idem]
Mongo Santamaria [idem]
Reuben Wilson [idem]
Jackson 5 [idem; released in '09, with drum overdubs in '87]
Cookie Crew [Starr sample in Got To Keep On; hit UK]
Human Nature [idem]
MC5 [as Twenty Five Miles]
In the long run, Wexler and Berns were (posthumously) co-credited for Twenty-Five Miles, along with Edwin Starr, Johnny Bristol and Harvey Fuqua.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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