"Walk Away Reneé" #5 10/29/1966

An example of baroque rock by the Left Banke, with pseudo-classical chamber music instrumentation which owed everything to "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby." The Four Tops did a pretty decent cover version a few months later. Keyboardist Michael Brown supposedly wrote the song about the bass player's girlfriend Reneé, whom he was infatuated with. The lead singer was Steve Martin - no, not him. The group's second LP had background vocals by Steven Tyler - yes, HIM, pre-Aerosmith. Brown went on to form the group Stories, but departed before their one hit "Brother Louie" in 1973.