Tag: You Better Run

I graduated in 1985…and when I hear anything by The Rascals or Cream…I think of that spring and riding around in my car with friends. That is when I bought two cassettes…The Rascal’s greatest hits and a best of Cream. This band was so talented and you can tell they influenced Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, and others.

What a great band! I could almost leave it at that and post the song. They were technically the Young Rascals when this song came out of AM radio in the sixties. They were never really an album band but more of a super singles band. Another band like that was The Lovin’ Spoonful. They dropped the “young” in 1968 and continued having hits.

The Rascals made it by playing rhythm and blues and soul music. Their 1966 cover of the Rudy Clark and Artie Resnick song…Good Lovin went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart. They had the majority of their hits between 1966-1968.

You Better Run peaked at #20 on the Billboard 100 and #22 in Canada in 1966.

They had nine top 20 hits and thirteen top 40 hits…they also had three number 1 hits and a total of 18 songs in the Billboard 100 before they disbanded in 1972. This song was written by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati.

You Better Run

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