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Live: Let's Work Together is the second live album by American blues rock band George Thorogood & the Destroyers.It was recorded on December 2–3, 1994, at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, Missouri, and December 5, 1994, at Center Stage in Atlanta, [1] and released in April 1995 by the label EMI Records.
"Let's Work Together" – Canned Heat "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" – Tony Orlando & Dawn "Get Down Tonight" – KC & the Sunshine Band "Free Bird" – Lynyrd Skynyrd; John Lennon's song "Imagine" is mentioned and has its lyrics quoted, but was not used in the film.
Meanwhile, Harrison continued to perform and record but it would be another ten years before he again cracked the Billboard Top 40 when he released the self-penned "Let's Work Together (Part 1)" that went to #32 in early 1970 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1970 hit version was released as a single on Sue Records (Sue 11) and was backed with "Let ...
Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat is a two-disc CD set issued in 1994 that features various tracks from previous albums and some previously unreleased tracks. Highlights include an alternate, longer take of "On the Road Again," and the first release of "Let's Work Together" in stereo.
Canned Heat had a big hit with "Let's Work Together" and was the band's only top forty hit to feature the vocals of Bob "The Bear" Hite. The album featured piano by Dr. John and an atypical jump blues style also. Some controversy was sparked by the Moon landing/Iwo Jima album cover and the upside-down American flag. The upside-down flag was ...
Canned Heat's fifth album, Future Blues, was released in August 1970 and featured the Wilbert Harrison cover of "Let's Work Together". It became their biggest hit in the UK, reaching number 2 on the Singles Chart for 15 weeks. The cover features the band dressed as astronauts on the Moon, mocking the flag-raising on Iwo Jima.
"Let's Work Together" was originally included on the soundtrack to the film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, and a cover of The Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" was also included on the 1994 tribute album Shared Vision: The Songs of the Beatles.
The album also included a cover of The Lovin' Spoonful's "My Gal". [30] "Honky Tonk Walkin'" and "Dixie Fried" respectively reached numbers 54 and 71 on the country charts, [11] while the "Blue Moon of Kentucky" cover did not chart. Mansfield gave a two-star rating for Allmusic, where he wrote that the band had "devolved into a redneck boogie ...