For quite a
few years, Reston Town Center has sponsored a free Saturday night concert
series during the summer months. Often they’d close out the summer with an
appearance by the great doo-wop group The Legendary Orioles. While they would
play their hits, most notably “It’s Too Soon To Know” and “Crying In The
Chapel”, they would also do their versions of Motown and other soul classics.
Each time I went to see them, they opened with this track originally done by
Wilson Pickett (who, coincidentally enough, was living in Reston at the time of
his death in 2006).
They made an
excellent choice. It comes from the album Wilson
Pickett in Philadelphia, which was the only time that Pickett worked with the
Gamble and Huff “Sound of Philadelphia” production team. Musically the song is
lighter and more upbeat than, say, “Mustang Sally” or “Funky Broadway”; Stewart
Mason has a great writeup at Allmusic.com.
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