"Mustang Sally" #23 12/24/1966

More Muscle Shoals magic from "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, one of many he recorded at FAME Studios. Yet another tune I thought charted much higher at the time, given how it still gets so much radio airplay. It was first recorded by Mack Rice with the original title of "Mustang Mama" until Aretha Franklin suggested a change. The master tape of Wilson's version flew off the reel and onto the floor during playback and broke into pieces, but recording engineer Tom Dowd (who worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb) spliced it back together in under 30 minutes.