He sure did. And had quite a career after leaving The Monkeys. You probably know his mother invented Liquid Paper. Probably not worth much today since typewriters are almost museum pieces now.
And jeesh, The Lovin' Spoonful....what a run of hits....and all within a year in a half! Amazing. And in '65 and '66, when the competition was FIERCE. More songs got to number one in 1965 than in any other year. That's how fertile it was. One week "Satisfaction". Next week "Like A Rolling Stone" Next week "Day Tripper". A million classic Motown records. Amazing.
Anyways, what I have here is not more Spoonful.....but three songs that people sometimes mistake for other artists: Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin and The Beatles. Brian did write and produce "Little Honda".....Fontella Bass actually predates Aretha's Atlantic period.....and Knickerbockers are just plain rip-offs! Albeit good ones!
This band only put out one enigmatic single........but it's a bitchin' one! Both sides! And with the lyric "can you guess my name?" predates the Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" by two years! They had to have heard this one. (To be fair, the singer, like most garage bands of the 60s, is heavily influenced by Jagger!.
Fabulously rare, I give you one of the great losers of the sixties: The Satans!
Just checked this thread again - and as always, several good choices (in my mind anywho). The Guess Who, Knickerbockers, Paul Revere and the Raiders (come on now.....blue coats, or red coats?), even them Monkees (created as a spoof,yet look what they done did).
Another modern cover of an old song (having just posted a version of Landslide by the Dixie Chicks over in the 70s thread.)
I feel like Bon Jovi found something interesting in the song "Help" - it almost makes more sense when it's done like this. The original, which is of course great, sounds almost celebratory, where this sounds like someone really crying out for help. It's... sadder.