I was listening to some Gary Puckett and the Union Gap last evening.Yes, I listen to that cornball. Gary and his band are the pork rinds of '60s pop: ridiculous and unhealthy, but enjoyable under the right circumstances. And I realized, in the midst of his medley of molestation - the "Young Girl" whom he woos as his "Lady Willpower" with an ultimatum and then "Is a Woman Now" after he pops her clutch - that there was a Top 40 hit of his that I'd never heard before.
YouTube to the rescue. Thank you, kachzvi, whoever you are, for posting a clip of "Don't Give In to Him," a #15 hit from 1969 that is rightly forgotten. It's not a bad song, just a bland one, something less than a footnote. At least it isn't creepy... Unless you take "You don't dare refuse him" as something more than an ultimatum.
In other matters, isn't Mr. Puckett himself something a dead ringer for Gary Cole?
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TANC: They're playing this right now on WLNG, having played ""...Girl is a Woman" yesterday.
My fave of theirs is "Over You", a fairly un-creepy, straight-ahead ballad. Well, OK the narrator's a bit obsessed, but he's not deflowering anybody.
Why is it that people can't listen to the man"s awesome voice? Why make a judgment of his morals based on some one else's lyrics? He sang them, and very well, but he didn't write them
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