Love that song! There's just nothing bad about it.
Over at the Wiki, I found an interesting quote from Dave Marsh:
'Good Lovin'' all by itself is enough to dispel the idiotic notion that rock and roll is nothing more than white boys stealing from blacks. linkWhat's up with that?
It turns out that "Good Lovin'" was a remake of an original:
Just what is it that makes the Young Rascals' version so much better? Ironically, I think it's the "call and response." YMMV
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Other things I noticed: Tom Dowd produced the Young Rascals' version. I chastised what Dowd did to my favorite Allman Brothers' song "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" back here.
Notice that the drummer holds his sticks in the traditional grip. You don't see that much anymore in younger drummers.
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Around 1980, you could divide the people my age who knew about "Good Lovin" into two group: Those who thought it was by The Grateful Dead, and those who didn't.
Notice also that the song ends abruptly (twice actually, once in a "false ending"). That's the real mark of a live performing band. The Beatles did that too in their early stuff. The "fade out" was a radio invention so that DJ's could talk over the song. You can't fade out live. Before too long, artists were enabling the DJ's. Either that or they didn't know how or were too lazy to close their songs.
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