Re: Stepping Stone

[dothepop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lisa Lindstrom )]

You wrote: 
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, The Iceman wrote:
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>> It was originally recorded by Paul Revere and the Raiders--it's on 
their 
>> Midnight Ride album
>
>Is this really the first version?  There were 2 early versions on 45s 
by 
>obscure groups:  The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band (on 
HBR?) 
>and The Rebounds (on Tower).  The W.C. Fields one is on a Pebbles 
album, 
>I think, but I can't dig it out of my basement at present to read the 
>liner notes.  
>
>Greg, if you're out there, please tell us who did it first!
>
According to the liner notes of "Highs in the Mid-60s, Vol. 2: L.A. 
'66," the W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band did the first 
version of this song. The tune was written by Boyce and Hart, two 
songwriters who "shopped" their tunes to prospective bands, much like 
the way "Wild Thing" was given to the Troggs (or, if you believe their 
story, that it was found by their manager in a pile of demo acetates), 
of "I Had Too Much To Dream last Night" and so forth were given to the 
Electric Prunes by the Tucker/Mantz songwriting team. 
Alan Wright