Thomas, Neil Diamond – brought him back from the dead. And those session guys on that record were the same session guys – that core five guys – who did Elvis recordings, all the Box Tops recordings, “Son of a Preacher Man,” B. It was so accessible to listen to and sing along with and the lyric was really something. But, as we’re listening to this demo and reading the lyric, I’m going, “Oh my God!” It was a basic “Louie, Louie” progression. That demo was just him singing and playing guitar. He’d been carrying it around for a long time and it was a demo by the writer, Chip Taylor. I went back a month later to American and we sat down and we were listening to some demos and the road manager at the time pulled “Angel” out of his briefcase. So Jimmy and the road manager at the time came up to see us work and went, “Oh yeah!” So, I was on that southern tour through the Deep South and they were cutting their Goin’ to Memphis Album in Memphis at American Studios.Īfter the tour was over, I just tagged along and went to that studio where they were finishing up that album and the producer, Chips Moman, asked me to do a demo tape for him to listen to my voice. And Paul was doing a tour in the Deep South and Jimmy said, “Well, why don’t you use Merrilee as an opening act?” Well, he went on to work for Paul Revere. ![]() Back in the early 60s, we had a roadie named Jimmy Johnson, fresh out of high school. ![]() First introduced to “Angel of the Morning”?īack in those days, we played the dances and Paul Revere & the Raiders were, you know, one of the bands that played this circuit and we’d run into each other once in a while.
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