If it smells like turpentine and looks like India ink, Trumpers would probably take it before they’ll take that commie socialist vaccine.
Though it’s been covered by scores of groups, the best version remains the first. The Clovers debuted this Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller classic in 1959, when they took it to No. 23 on the Hot 100. Billy Mitchell sings the spirited lead vocal.
The cover that did the best on the charts was by the Searchers, a now mostly forgotten Merseybeat band whose version reached No. 3 during the British Invasion in 1964.
The biggest name to cover it is probably Neil Diamond, who included it on his 1993 album of Brill Building covers.
