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    Help! ID lyrics from old Detroit tapes

    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

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    "Annie, Get Your Yo-Yo" by Junior Parker on Duke.

    Best,

    Mark

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    Mark, thanks for the reply, but this song is not Annie get your yo yo by Junior Parker.

    Thanks, again

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    This song is not Yo-Yo by Richard's People [[Tuba 2012)

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    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.

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    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.

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    SOLVED!! ID lyrics from old Detroit tapes

    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.

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