Friday, January 12, 2024

Cover #52: The Lively Ones cover "Pipeline" by The Chantays

 In the 1960s it was not uncommon to have one artist perform a cover of a current or relatively current song, to see if the newer version might chart higher than the original (also, in the 1960s many songs became hits locally or regionally, giving other local/regional acts a chance to bring a hit song to a new audience).  This happened frequently with Motown artists; some of the best known Motown hits were recorded by two or three other Motown acts around the same time.  So it was with one of the greatest surf instrumentals of all time- in fact, one of the best rock songs ever, period.  The Lively Ones version is pretty close to the original on first listen, but then you should notice that the organ bits in the first version are replaced with saxophone, and the small instrumental solo is guitar instead of organ in the original.  For students of surf rock (like me), these differences are really cool.  ✅✅✅

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