Wonder how many parents named their kids after this song, which represented a total break from the bubblegum past for Tommy James and the Shondells. And this mix wasn’t what we were supposed to hear! Tommy had a gig in Chicago the day after the session and took a raw tape to WLS Radio for a private listening by a few staffers. However, someone at the station pirated the rough mix and put it on the air right after he left! The response was so great Tommy’s label didn’t let him change anything. Since albums were now trendy, a trippy extended version of C&C was created from the single (instead of a single edited from a longer take) and that LP took off - first album I ever bought! The LP mix had a few technical errors, like a change in pitch at the beginning of the guitar solo plus several iffy tape splices; thanks to digital editing, those were magically fixed decades later. The song was covered by everyone from Prince to Dolly Parton, but Joan Jett’s take kicks ass!
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