MAGAts like to project a tough, scary image, but their frequent fuck-ups undercut the bluster. For instance, Homeland Security chief Kristie Noem, known as ICE Barbie for posing in combat gear whenever possible, got her purse snatched the other day in a D.C. restaurant, Capital Burger. Her Secret Service detail never noticed though, to be fair, it’s really dark in there, and security footage showed the thief was white and therefore not suspicious.
Smokey Robinson and fellow Miracle Bobby Rogers wrote this song with the Temptations in mind, but Berry Gordy gave it to second-line Motown group the Contours, who had scored their one big hit back in 1962 with “Do You Love Me.” By 1965 lead singer Billy Gordon was the only remaining original member, and after “First I Look at the Purse” stalled at No. 12 on the R&B chart and No. 57 on the Hot 100, he left, too.
The song got more traction when the J. Geils Band, which leaned heavily on R&B covers in its early days, made it the debut single from their eponymous first album in 1970. It didn’t chart, but the version that opened the band’s 1972 live album got a good bit of FM airplay.
