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gangsteral
12-21-2010, 07:44 PM
I came across a post by Joe Moorehouse [[152.163.188.68) from March 2003, trying to help me id some songs. The tapes were off either WJLB, WCHB, CKLW or Swingin'Time from 1969 maybe 1970. I got the cassette recorder for Christmas 1968. His quote "Raucous, way uptempo hard soul song, male lead, lots of horns, female vocals, sounds mid-to-late-60s"
Here are the lyrics:

Alright, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Come on and listen to me baby
Annie [Better?] get your yo-yo
Wind it up and let it go
lookie, lookie, lookie lie [loop de loop de loop de li?]
Ever since you caught my eye
I’m your puppet on a string
I don’t mind cause everything is funky, funky
I’ll be anything that you want me
Like a kid in a candy store
Each time I see you I want more
Sugar I’m a [hog? or pawn?] for you
Just can’t get enough is true
When you turn the lights on
Oh my mind is plum gone___
____________________________
You’re my weakness_______
_________________
It’s Alright_______________
Funky, funky I’ll be anything that you want me
I’ll be anything that you want me
Like a kid in a candy store
Each time I see you I want more
Sugar I’m a [hog? or pawn?] for you
Just can’t get enough is true
Alright, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Alright, listen to me baby
Ahhhhh Mercy, Feels better.............

Any help is appreciated

mark speck
12-21-2010, 08:53 PM
"Annie, Get Your Yo-Yo" by Junior Parker on Duke.

Best,

Mark

gangsteral
12-22-2010, 10:54 AM
Mark, thanks for the reply, but this song is not Annie get your yo yo by Junior Parker.

Thanks, again

gangsteral
01-14-2011, 02:27 AM
This song is not Yo-Yo by Richard's People [[Tuba 2012)

ady_croasdell
01-14-2011, 08:22 AM
It's David Morris Jr, 'Hunky Funky' on Philips, one of the first Northern Soul spins over here in the early 70s, it's US release was 1968 and was arranged by Horace Ott so probably NYC produced.

gangsteral
01-21-2011, 05:03 PM
ady_croasdell, THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I now know the name of the song, but David Morris, Jr. is not the artist on the tape I made in 1969-1970. So now I just have to figure out the artist.

gangsteral
01-29-2011, 06:59 PM
THE American BREED "Hunky Funky" on Acta 833 [[1969) written by Harry Moffit, Horns Arranged by Skeet Bushor.
ady_croasdell I would not have been able to solve this mystery tune without your help. Thanks again.