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In Reply to: Off the top of my head, here are 118 of them posted by LWR on October 23, 2006 at 19:51:54:
#5 The Vagrants" "Respect". In 1965 and 1966, this group, from Forest Hills, Forest Hills High School, Queens, NYC, almost 'made it' with their version of RESPECT.
At the time, The Vagrants, and The Young Rascals, were running neck and neck in NYC and Long Island (often playing at the dearly departed Barge). The Vagrants had as lead guitarist the great fat man Lesle West(real name: Weinstein, a member of the tribe, who has now become the relatively skinny man), his brother Larry on rhythm guitar and Jerry "Doc" Storch, the former NY State junior bowling champion on organ and Pete Sabatino on vocals. Can't remember the drummer--- Roger something or other. Oh well. Damn they were fine. Or was it that i was 18 yo and doing substances. whatever.Unfortunately, some women named Aretha Franklin came out with a mediocre version of RESPECT (lololol), and that was all she wrote for the band. They could never pull it off after that. So close, but so far... another historical factoid.
No doubt New Yorker Inmates of my ggggggg generation will remember the dearly departed Vagrants
We all know that Leslie then moved on, got even physically larger if that was possible and teamed up with Corky and Felix and became Mountain.
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