Artist: Wilde Knights
Author: Rick Dey
Label: Star-Bright
Year: 1965
Garage rock from the Pacific Northwest. They also wrote Beaver Patrol, covered by Pop Will Eat Itself. Reissued on Big Beat sixties garage compilation Scary Business.
Covers:
Paul Revere & The Raiders [top 20 US]
Paul Revere paid Rick Dey of the Wilde Knights $5.000 for this song. It became The Raiders' first big hit. Dey died from an overdose of laughing gas in 1970.
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