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"Let's Stick Together" is a blues-based rhythm and blues song written by Wilbert Harrison. In 1962, Fury Records released it as a single. Harrison further developed the song and in 1969, Sue Records issued it as a two-part single titled "Let's Work Together".
The song also was released in a 5 minute 19 second version on the Sue Records album SSLP-8801 Let's Work Together. The song was originally released by Harrison in 1962 with different lyrics as "Let's Stick Together" on Fury 1059 and Fury 1063. [6]
"Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. [1] First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, as "K. C. Loving", the song later became a chart-topping hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959.
Wilbert Harrison released a version of the song on his 1969 album Let's Work Together. It was produced by Juggy Murray. [23] Johnny Tillotson released a version of the song on his 1969 album Tears on My Pillow. It was produced by Jimmy Bowen. [24] Andy Williams released a version of the song as the B-side to his 1969 single "A Woman's Way".
It reached #2 on the U.S. pop chart, behind both The Happy Organ by Dave "Baby" Cortez and Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison. [2] It also went to #14 on the U.S. R&B chart. Overseas, "Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)" went to #28 on the UK Singles Chart in 1959. [3] The song was featured on The Impalas' 1959 album, Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home). [4]
An international hit in 1965, "The Birds and the Bees" was reminiscent of such 1950s' honky tonk-style hits as "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino and "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison. Some subsequent recordings (i.e. by artists other than Akens) identify the composer as Herb Newman (Newman had written " The Wayward Wind " a 1956 No. 1 hit for ...
Lou Carnesecca, the excitable St. John’s coach whose outlandish sweaters became an emblem of his team’s dazzling Final Four run in 1985, has died at 99, just a few weeks shy of what would have ...
It was Harrison himself who reworked "Let's Stick Together" into "Let's Work Together," which had lyrics more in common with the late 60's ethos. Listening to the two songs, "Let's Stick Together" is almost like a first draft. Canned Heat covered Harrison's reworking, they did not rework "Let's Stick Together" themselves.