Can any of you hear the Contours doing this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R73iEOvkr10
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Can any of you hear the Contours doing this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R73iEOvkr10
I loved the Contours "Can You Jerk Like Me" more then "Cool Jerk". Motown really got on the "Jerk" bandwaggon.
The jerk was a really popular dance for a couple of years. One of the tracks on Martha/Vandellas Dance Party album was titled "The Jerk." [[That album is probably my favorite of theirs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh00mjdzg3I
yes,BigAl, "The Jerk" by Martha & the Vandellas is a great song and could have been a 45.the "Dance Party" LP I would have to say is my fave too of Martha & the Vandellas.
Yep,i can hear em too!!!
With Ivy Jo Hunter and Mickey Stevenson producing, I definitely could hear The Contours doing an excellent cover of this. But ONLY with Billy Gordon singing lead.
Billy had the right kind of unvarnished R&B voice to sing this one. Joe Stubbs may have been ok [[straining to the max in this key), Dennis Edwards would have given a "proper" soul spin to the song, but my guy Billy was like Jr. Walker: his shout-it-out, shredder style was made for fun songs like this.