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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 ...
Let's Work Together: The Best of Canned Heat is a compilation album by Canned Heat, released in 1989. [1] All of the songs are taken from the first five albums released on Liberty Records between 1966 and 1970, except for "Rockin' with the King", which is from the United Artists Records album Historical Figures and Ancient Heads (1971).
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 "World in a Jug" b/w "Evil Woman" - - - Boogie with Canned Heat: 1968 "On the Road Again" b/w "Boogie Music" (from Living the Blues) 16 8 8 "The Christmas Blues" b/w "The Chipmunk Song" with The Chipmunks - - - Non-album tracks "Going Up the Country" b/w "One Kind Favor" 11 19 5 Living the Blues: 1969 "Time Was" b/w Low Down" 67 ...
In the UK, where Harrison's single failed to generate interest, Canned Heat's version was released in January 1970. [8] There it became their biggest hit, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart during a stay of fifteen weeks. [9] In the US, Canned Heat's "Let's Work Together" was first released on August 3, 1970, on their album, Future Blues.
The song was originally released by Harrison in 1962 with different lyrics as "Let's Stick Together" on Fury 1059 and Fury 1063. [ 6 ] "Let's Work Together" was later a hit for Canned Heat , and, again as "Let's Stick Together", for Bryan Ferry . [ 2 ]
"Going Up the Country" (also "Goin' Up the Country") is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", [3] it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. [4] As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung by Alan Wilson.
Canned Heat was under contract to Liberty Records at the time and Liberty did not want to do a live album, so manager Skip Taylor told Liberty that the album had been recorded in 1966 & 1967 at the Topanga Corral and released the record with Wand Records to avoid legal complications. [2]