Kimberly from Centreville, MsI love this song.Then hey played "Little Red Riding Hood," and she loved it. We were eating lunch one day in the summer of '66 (I was working nights between college years), had WLS tuned in, and they played "Eleanor Rigby"-tight string quartet arrangement, serious social commentary lyrics, and she didn't like it. Dave from Cullman, AlMy mother did NOT understand rock'n'roll.back when rock and roll was simple entertainment. im 23 now and its a great song lyrically and musically. Marcus from Fresno, Camy dad showed me this song when i was like 5 or 6 and i loved it.He is in love with a girl who is much higher in class than him and knows sadly that she would never have anything to do with him. Lenny from Brookfield, OhI've always thought of this song as a metaphor for a man with a tough, scary exterior or reputation.Those HOWLSSham & company surprised themselves by doing so well with this, that they tried to repeat it with "The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin,"-and succeeded, to some extent. Great comic turn should be rated as a novelty tune. Matthew from Toronto, OnA tongue-in-cheek song that's so bad it's good.One under-appreciated hit of theirs I recall was "Red Hot" an old rocker originally from the 50s & they do it real justice. Their costumes they wore on their LPs and concerts were sure "groovy" and "funky." I think they were a pretty tight rock band technically and talented, despite some of the material they recorded. And Sam the Sham still managed to rack up some hits. The mid-Sixties were just giving way to the advent of changes in rock to new things like acid rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, etc. The band was sorta odd, but in 1966 a lot of rock bands were supposed to be odd anyway. In the years 1965-67, my brother had several albums & 45s by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs & that's how I know their music.
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