The Boots - You'll Never Do It Baby

For the third straight day, we're playing You'll Never Do It Baby, the song composed by two members of the little known UK beat band, The Cops N' Robbers. Today we travel to West Berlin, Germany to hear the most raw, frantic version ever committed to vinyl. The band is The Boots and they released their version in 1965 on Telefunken Records. What a cool label name that is! The Boots seem to have heard both the original version that has a wailing harmonica, and The Pretty Things' version that changes the chorus to a IV-I-IV-V structure. For the record, The Boots were Bob Bresser on bass, Uri Grun on keyboards, Heintz Hoff on drums, Werner Krabble singing and Jurge Schultz-Eckel on guitar.

Until next time, we'll see you On The Flip-Side!

The Pretty Things - You'll Never Do It Baby

The same year that The Cops N' Robbers released their original composition, You'll Never Do It Baby, on the Flip-Side of a French only EP, The Pretty Things recorded the number for their second album. The number leads off side 2 of the Get The Picture LP. The Pretty Things modified the chorus structure and removed the piano and harmonica. The beat is slightly modified as well, making it less jazzy and more of a straight ahead, on the downbeat rock-n-roll number. Interestingly, The Pretty Things' drummer, Viv Prince, is not playing on this. A cat by the name of John Adler took over on this track as Viv was on his way out of the band at the time. 

Until next time, we'll see you On The Flip-Side!