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Live performance by Havens
There’s a great early episode of The Simpsons using this song. Can’t recall all the details, but Marge is revisiting her talent for painting portraits that she abandoned when she had the kids. An old portrait she painted of Ringo Starr resurfaces (she sent one to Ringo in the late 1960s, and we see Ringo finally getting to it in his fan mail stack he’s promised to reply to). Cue montage of Marge working the canvas to “It Don’t Come Easy”.
Quoting this so people have another opportunity to click that link and listen to “What’s Going On” again.
Loved this song. Oddly about 15 mins ago it popped up on my Amazon Music Song list while I was spackling some holes in the bathroom.
odd sidebar..i was at kenny g's house for 3 days straight doing his record release parties sometime in the 90's, and on the last night, michael bolton sang this song around 1am in kenny's acoustically perfect studio with some master pianist and it was one the most amazing things i've heard in person. think what you may of monsieur bolton, but he ####### crushed this song, that night. just amazing.
When I saw the year, I thought it would be better than it turned out. I was expecting more southern soul and some decent hard rock. Instead, we got - to me, the nadir - Diana Ross Diana Ross-ing one of the great rock records of all time. I'm all for reinterpretations of great works of art, but her cover of "Reach Out" is so airheaded and dumb it defies belief. I blame Berry Gordy more than her.
whoa, not a fan of kenny g or bolton, but that whole scenario is unbelievably cool.
I believe you. Bolton had a formidable voice and, in the setting you were in, I can imagine he sounded great. I can not, however, forgive him for the commercial hatchet jobs he did on Otis Redding and Percy Sledge. I know he sold a billion copies of each. God bless him. But those covers were just awful.
Sure you're not talking about the Grass Roots? I don't think Bratton was ever in Three Dog Night
I was trying to be funny. I feel like I was on a bit of a roll with a high percentage of my posts getting at least 1 like, but I guess this was a swing and a miss. Big fan of both bands, got into them in early '82 thanks to finding my older sister's stack of 45's.
Both were great bands who got no respect from the hip rock critics who decided such things back in the day. Paul Revere & The Raiders were another.
they kicked ### on "Where The Action Is" a tv show EVERY DAY (weekday) afternoon in the mid-60s. If I were a girl I would have had sex with Mark Lindsay as a 3rd grader.
