[DudeAsInCool]

"Driver's Seat" is perhaps the most popular song by British new wave band Sniff'n The Tears. It was released in 1978 and reached #11 in the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the US. A big hit in many countries. It also reached the #1 spot in the Netherlands when re-relased in 1992. A tip of the hat to Fark/Blender for the find.

[DudeAsInCool]

The McCoys

Hang On Sloopy (1965)

Hang on Sloopy" is a song by the pop group The McCoys which was #1 in America in October 1965 and is the official rock song of the state of Ohio and The Ohio State University. It was written by Wes Farrell and Bert Russell and is named for singer Dorothy Sloop (1913-1998), who used the name "Sloopy" on stage.

The McCoys were a pop group that started in Union City, Indiana, U.S., in 1962, and included guitarist Ricky Zehringer (later known as Rick Derringer) and his brother Randy on drums.



Fever (1965)

"Fever" is a song credited to Eddie Cooley and "John Davenport". The McCoys cover went to the #7 on the Billboard charts.



The song was later recorded by Madonna

[Redneck4sure]

Little Willie John put Fever in the top 40 in 1956 at position 24.
Peggy Lee took it to #8 in 1958.

So the McCoys had a hit with a cover of a song that had been covered.

[DudeAsInCool]

Redneck4sure, on Oct 10 2008, 10:57 AM, said:

Little Willie John put Fever in the top 40 in 1956 at position 24.
Peggy Lee took it to #8 in 1958.

So the McCoys had a hit with a cover of a song that had been covered.

Rick Derringer of The McCoys was a hell of a guitarist. He later released solo records and also played with Edgar Winter

Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo

[Redneck4sure]

Rick is a Hell of a guitarist 4sure. I have no idea how many albums he has released. You don't see them in cyberspace very often. In 2007 he released "Rockin' American". Damn good vid, Dude!

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[shelby_vn]

The vocalist of BS&T that you're speaking of is David Clayton Thomas, who was on board for their greatest commercial recordings, although I prefer the first BS&T album, with Al Kooper, and even the unheralded New Blood album, featuring Jerry Fisher.