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49. Of the bunch you list, I think "Lola" is the best

Fri Jan 22, 2016, 06:53 PM

Jan 2016

I saw the Kinks back in the late 70s at Winterland (SF) and I think they did "Lola"

I also saw Country Joe do "Sweet Loraine" (on more than one occasion) at the Fillmore Auditorium.

(I'm pretty sure I saw Wilson Pickett at least once at the old Fillmore as well.)

A great '90s film about the formation of a soul band in Dublin is called The Commitments"
and the very first song they work on is "Mustang Sally"
Near the end of the movie, they do a version of it that is so good it makes Wilson Picket's version pale in comparison.

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