When I linked to the Peter Gunn theme in the Duane Eddy obit, I remembered that the Pirates recorded a version in 1977. In the interests of getting everything to touch, here’s that record. Peter Gunn was a TV show that featured a private detective and a jazzy theme song. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer even recorded a version. Wikipedia said Gunn drove a 1959 Plymouth Fury equipped with a car phone. Johnny Kidd and the Pirates were one of the first English rock bands. Kidd died in a car crash in 1966. The group got back together years later with Mick Green taking over the guitar duties. I loved the album cover, bought the record and liked it too.
It includes Shakin’ All Over (which the Guess Who had made a hit in 1965), Drinkin’ Wine Spo’ De’ O’ D (which the Electric Flag put on their first album because everybody in the band knew it), Lonesome Train, Do the Dog, and a wonderful pun between English and German—Don’t Munchen It (that’s the German version of Munich). They do You Don’t Own Me (not the Leslie Gore song) as a cross between Captain Beefheart and Root Boy Slim.
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