It was released as a single from the album and reached #63 in the UK Singles Chart, #43 on the Australian charts and #17 on the New Zealand charts. The song featured prominently in the 1991 film The Commitments and appears on the film’s soundtrack album, sung by Andrew Strong. The same lyric is found in “Dance to the Music” by Sly and the Family Stone in 1968 and in the children’s song “Sally the Camel”. The Lou Reed song “Ride Sally Ride”, which quotes these lyrics throughout, is the first track on his 1974 album Sally Can’t Dance. The chorus of the song includes the lyrics “ride, Sally, ride” - a phrase that became fodder for newspaper headlines in 1983, when astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. The Young Rascals covered the song in 1966, changing the year of the “brand new Mustang” from 1965 to 1966.
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The song dropped seven spots to #441, when the magazine published its 2010 update of the list. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Wilson Pickett’s recording of the song at #434 on a list of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Pickett’s version climbed to #6 on the R&B charts and #23 on the Pop charts in 1966, #4 in Canada on the (RPM) charts, and #28 in the UK Singles Chart on its original release and #62, when it was released again in 1987. Rice’s version made it to #15 on the U.S. He says Atlantic Records “copped those two songs from them and gave them to Pickett” to record.
On The Rascals Anthology booklet, Felix Cavaliere claims The Young Rascals actually recorded “Mustang Sally” and “Land of a Thousand Dances” before Pickett. Rice called the early version “Mustang Mama” but changed the title after Aretha Franklin suggested “Mustang Sally”. Also in 1966, John Lee Hooker recorded an entirely different song with a similar title - “Mustang Sally & GTO”.Īccording to music historian Tom Shannon the song started as a joke when singer Della Reese wanted a new Ford Mustang. It gained greater popularity when Wilson Pickett covered it the following year on a single, a version that was also released on the 1966 album, The Wicked Pickett. The song uses an AAB layout with a 24-bar structure. It was released on the Blue Rock label (4014) in May 1965 with “Sir Mack Rice” as the artist. “Mustang Sally” is a rhythm and blues (R&B) song written and first recorded by Mack Rice in 1965. So this week’s Featured Lyrics are from songwriter Mack Rice and were made most famous by Wilson Pickett. Of course a lot depends on the melody, the rhythm and the artist as to whether or not the song will sell… and whether or not it is in the right place at the right time! We’re posting lyrics of hit songs so that our songwriters can study them to see how winning songs are constructed.
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