“Kicks,” a song by the sixties band with the stoopid name and outfits Paul Revere and the Raiders, was one of the few anti-drug songs of the drug-addled sixties music era to endure as one of the greatest rock classics of all time. (See here for its history, rock fans, including its rejection by Eric Burden and the Animals, who passed on it.)
I never get tired of hearing it and here it is complete with sixties go-go girls in go-go boots.
There was nothing stoopid about His Greatness Lou Rawls, who broke out in the sixties with cool music for adults for the ages.
The man has coolness and chops that won’t quit.
And there was this guy, who was always doing something interesting and different and fresh and cutting-edge in the sixties.
Until next time, keep on Jitterbugging.
I did not know that “Kicks” was an anti-drug song. The group was a little before my time, but looking at those outfits I just figured they had to be on something. Great song.
Oh yeah, if you pay attention to the words and know of the context of the era, it was very anti-drug as the writers intended when they wrote it for a troubled girl; that said, this talented band was just another sixties band stoned out of their buckets and making $$$ till they went out of dumb, trendy, sixties fashion. Three hits and a cloud of dust!