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The Spirit of '67 is the sixth studio album by American rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders. Produced by Terry Melcher and released in November 1966 by Columbia Records (CS 9395), and featured the singles "Hungry", "The Great Airplane Strike", and "Good Thing". The album would be reissued on LP (with the title "Good Thing" and with "Oh!
The circumstance of their meeting was later referred to in the tongue-in-cheek song "Legend of Paul Revere", recorded by the group. Lindsay joined Revere's band in 1958. Originally called the Downbeats, they changed their name to Paul Revere & the Raiders in 1960 on the eve of their first record release for Gardena Records.
The Good Things, a 2008 album by Jill Phillips; Songs "Good Thing" (Eternal song), 1995 ... "Good Thing", by Paul Revere & The Raiders from The Spirit of '67
Paul Revere & the Raiders are an American rock band from Boise, Idaho. Formed in 1958, the band released their first hit single three years later, " Like, Long Hair ", which reached number 38 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. [ 1 ]
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In contrast with the Raiders' previous top 10 hit, the guitar-driven "Kicks", the single "Hungry" has bassist Phil Volk playing the main riff. [4]The creation of the bass line in "Hungry" was complex.
The next single, "Good Thing", which peaked at #4 in December 1966, [21] was credited to the writing team of Melcher, Paul Revere and Mark Lindsay. Volk stated that the song was written at the Cielo Drive home of Melcher in the Beverly Glen section of Los Angeles.
Like their previous Top 10 hit, "Good Thing", the song was written by Raiders lead singer Mark Lindsay and producer Terry Melcher like all the other Revolution! tracks. They used to write album cuts in their shared home in 10050 Cielo Drive, famous for the Tate-LaBianca murders. Melcher wrote the chorus and Lindsay developed the rest. [5]