Who sang "Mustang Sally"
Paul Dokas
right news group.
Who wrote or first recorded the song called "Mustang Sally". And
has it been rerecorded by other artists?
I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
know for sure?
-paul
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Jamie Lubin
>Ok, I've got a simple question here, I just hope that I've got the
>right news group.
>
>Who wrote or first recorded the song called "Mustang Sally". And
>has it been rerecorded by other artists?
>
>I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
>know for sure?
I believe it was Wilson Pickett.
Brian Kauffman
>has it been rerecorded by other artists?
>
>I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
>know for sure?
Oh please! Mustang Sally was written by Bonnie Rice, first recorded
by Wilson Pickett in the 50's, with another standard version was recored
by the Rascals in the early 60's. More recently, I think the Radiators
might have also covered it.
BTW, anyone who likes, say, the Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, the Blues Bros.,
the Committments, Led Zeplin, U2, etc, would be well advised to check out
who they're getting a lot of their most famous music from.
-Brian
Dudley
>
> Wilson Pickett did it when the Allman Brothers in diapers.
Now this IS ridiculous. The Mustang was introduced just before mid-1964.
The Allman Brothers were old enough to drive one by then.
Dudley
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Jeff Spirer
(I didn't know that driving required being out of diapers. Sorry.)
The point was that people seem perfectly willing to write off the original if
some popular white group covers a black song. This is the history of rock 'n'
roll.
Jeff Spirer
>Ok, I've got a simple question here, I just hope that I've got the
>right news group.
>
>Who wrote or first recorded the song called "Mustang Sally". And
>has it been rerecorded by other artists?
>
>I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
>know for sure?
>
That is the most ridiculous thing you could have been told. It shows that white
covers of black music still get more notice.
Wilson Pickett did it when the Allman Brothers in diapers. The Young
Rascals (later The Rascals) probably did the first cover.
Jeff
dx
> Oh please! Mustang Sally was written by Bonnie Rice, first recorded
> by Wilson Pickett in the 50's...
Sure took Pickett's record a long time to climb the charts then, since it
hit #23 in 1966.
-dx
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Dudley
> The point was that people seem perfectly willing to write off the original if
> some popular white group covers a black song. This is the history of rock 'n'
> roll.
Have you ever listened to "Lesson One" by the Stone Cold Boners? They took
that theme and put it to music.
Dudley
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Charles F. Board
|> >Who wrote or first recorded the song called "Mustang Sally". And
|> >has it been rerecorded by other artists?
|> >
|> >I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
|> >know for sure?
|>
|> Oh please! Mustang Sally was written by Bonnie Rice, first recorded
|> by Wilson Pickett in the 50's, with another standard version was recored
More like '65. [Remember the line "a brand new Mustang, 1965" :-)]
I don't think Wilson Pickett recorded at *all* in the 50's. His stuff with the
Falcons was in '61-'63 and that pre-dated his solo stuff.
I've got every Allman bros. album (until the recent reunion) and don't recall
a version of "Mustang Sally"...is my memory going or did they never do this
one?
|> by the Rascals in the early 60's. More recently, I think the Radiators
|> might have also covered it.
|>
|> BTW, anyone who likes, say, the Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, the Blues Bros.,
|> the Committments, Led Zeplin, U2, etc, would be well advised to check out
|> who they're getting a lot of their most famous music from.
|>
|> -Brian
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Dudley
>
> Oh please! Mustang Sally was written by Bonnie Rice, first recorded
> by Wilson Pickett in the 50's, with another standard version was recored
> by the Rascals in the early 60's
Oh please! The Mustang first rolled off the assembly line just before
mid-1964. There was an earlier Mustang prototype, a 2-seater, mid-engine
job that made the rounds at car shows and magazines in 1963. Nobody knew
about the Mustang in the 50's.
Dudley
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Michael Carley
Mustang Sally was sung by Wilson Pickett in 1966 but was first recorded
by Mack Rice in Detroit in 1965 where it was a local hit
JEREMY CRAIG MARKMAN
Sir Mack Rice
This is taken from the liner notes of Buddy Guy: Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
on which Guy covers the song.
Unknown
Dokas) wrote:
> Who wrote or first recorded the song called "Mustang Sally". And
> has it been rerecorded by other artists?
>
> I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
> know for sure?
No, in fact I think it was the Statler Bros.
But seriously . . . Wilson Pickett wrote "Mustang Sally" and the song has
been remade ad nauseum by just about every white-bread blues wanna-be. The
best version is, as always, Wison Pickett's.
-- Chilly Willy
Michael Carley
1965- only a local hit though.
-- Chilly Willy
Brian Kauffman
>> = ka...@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
>> Oh please! Mustang Sally was written by Bonnie Rice, first recorded
>> by Wilson Pickett in the 50's, with another standard version was recored
>> by the Rascals in the early 60's
>Oh please! The Mustang first rolled off the assembly line just before
>mid-1964.
Open mouth, insert foot! I guess I brainlessly copied a date from
one of his greatest hits albums.
-brian
Andrew Rogers
>> Who wrote or first recorded the song called "Mustang Sally".
Sir Mack Rice.
>> And has it been rerecorded by other artists?
Zillions of 'em.
>> I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
>> know for sure?
They never recorded it, but I do recall having read an interview with
one of them who said they used to play it live back when they were
still playing bars and frat parties. I can believe it; every bar-
and frat-party band I was in used to play it, sometimes several times
per night...
>But seriously . . . Wilson Pickett wrote "Mustang Sally"
No, as several others have pointed out here, it was written by Wilson
Pickett's former co-Falcon, Bonnie Rice. The latter recorded it himself
(as Sir Mack Rice) on Mercury's Blue Rock subsidiary; it peaked at #108
pop on 5/29/65.
>... the song has
>been remade ad nauseum by just about every white-bread blues wanna-be.
The Young Rascals covered it on their first album, several months before
The Wicked One's version.
>The best version is, as always, Wilson Pickett's.
In this case, yes, but "as always"? Say that in front of Chris Kenner,
Rodger Collins, or Dyke and the Blazers...
AWR
old fart at play
Charles F. Board
|> >The best version is, as always, Wilson Pickett's.
|>
|> In this case, yes, but "as always"? Say that in front of Chris Kenner,
|> Rodger Collins, or Dyke and the Blazers...
Assuming you're referring to "Land Of 1000 Dances", "She's Looking Good",
& "Funky Broadway" respectively...then yes - Pickett's version of each is
definitive. I might be willing to give you the Beatles version of "Hey Jude"
over Pickett's, at least on every other Monday. :)
Mark J. Rinehart
> Ok, I've got a simple question here, I just hope that I've got the
> right news group.
> Who wrote or first recorded the song called "Mustang Sally". And
> has it been rerecorded by other artists?
I think Wilson Pickett may have recorded it first - I know that his
version was the first I heard of the song. I know that the Rascals
also recorded and had a hit with it.
> I've been told that it was first done by the Allman Bros. Anyone
> know for sure?
> -paul
I never heard an Allman Bros. cover, although it's certainly the type
of great blues tune the Allman's might do.
mark