In 1963, The Routers had a pretty big with "Let's Go," and it reached #19 on The Billboard Charts. I just found out something interesting that I don't think I ever knew before, and that's the real name of the song is "Let's Go (Pony)."
Another thing I just found out is that Scott Engel aka Scott Walker was the original bassist in the band.
The driving force behind The Routers was Michael Z. Gordon who also went on to form The Marketts, and a a lot of the instrumentation was done by studio musicians like Tommy Tedesco and Earl Palmer.
The English language can be very fascinating at times, like how just adding an apostrophe and an s to a word can totally change it's meaning.
In 1980, Dirty Looks, one of the lesser known Stiff Records bands came out with a song that to me sounds kind of like an amped up version of "My Sharona," but what do I know?
So get ready, get set and let's go let go!
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