In 1966 Love did their version of Burt Bacharach's "My Little Red Book." It only made it to #52 on The Billboard Hot 100 chart which is surprising to me because it got a lot of airplay back in the day.
Burt's own version is absolutely hideous and Manfred Mann's isn't much better.
Love's will always be the classic version!
Later years have seen it recorded by a score of different bands.
I love Love / The Little Black Egg always bugged me
ReplyDeleteA nice combo of songs with "Little" in the title, and both are classics for different reasons -- Love's version of Burt Bachrach's "Little Red Book" turned the song inside out and made Burt hip among the LA underground. For years the Love version of "My Little Book" was an indispensable part of my own band's repertoire, usually one of the first handful of songs we played every gig. "Little Black Egg," meanwhile, is a perfect example of "Nuggets"-style garage punk . . . amateurish and yet catchy.
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