Feb 9, 2012
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It’s the Same Old Song” had an unlikely birth when the Tops needed a quick hit to follow-up “I Can’t Help Myself.” Duke Fakir recalled: Lamont Dozier and I were both a little tipsy and he was changing the channels on the radio. He said, ‘It sounds like the same old song.’ And then he said, ‘Wait a minute.’ So he took ‘I Can’t Help Myself’ and reversed it using the same chord changes. The next day we went to the studio and recorded it, and then they put it on acetate, shipped it out to disc jockeys across the country.
The story of “It’s the Same Old Song” is pretty cute and charming, and exactly the sort of thing that would make rockist idiots and the Internet spheres that derive their cooler-than-thou ethos from authenticity and originality, but it’s better told by Duke Fakir in front of a Detroit audience. Fortunately, Fakir did that on Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me last month.
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