Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Classic Soul

The video on this one is a bit hokey, but the music makes it worth enduring (or ignoring) the images. It's the Drifters with Ben E. King on lead vocals with "There Goes My Baby." This is widely credited as being the first rock and roll song to be recorded with strings. Who knows if that's really true; but, first or not, they sure get it right:

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