Song of the Day 3/7: Every Mother’s Son, “Come on Down to My Boat”
This seems like a good time to get a bargain on a super-yacht, as governments around the world (not the US, yet) have begun seizing atop-the-liquid assets owned by oligarchs close to Putin. There are upwards of 10,000 boats of over 24 meters around the world, and a trade industry group estimates 7 to 10 percent are owned by Russians.
Every Mother’s Son was a folk-rock group out of Greenwich Village that scored this one hit in 1967, when it rose to No. 6 in Billboard.
When the Rare Breed recorded the tune the previous year, it was titled “Come and Take a Ride in My Boat.” The rougher garage-rock treatment gives the song some needed grit, but it failed to chart nationally.
Haven’t heard this song in ages. Pretty damned good radio fodder.
The Rare Breed version belongs on Little Steven’s Underground Garage.
It was on the original Nuggets collection.