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Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)

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B-side
  
"Go Girl, Go"

Format
  
7"

Length
  
2:06

Released
  
1967

Recorded
  
1967

Genre
  
Southern rock garage rock

"Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" is a 1967 song by The Hombres and the title track of their album of the same name. It is, according to AllMusic journalist Stewart Mason, a "deadpan southern-fried parody" of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues".

Contents

The song's spoken intro – "A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptations of Eve" – dates to the 1947 novelty recording "Cigareetes, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women" by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven, and is followed by a raspberry.

Go Girl, Go

The song's B-Side, "Go Girl, Go", has the singer complaining about having to "stand in line" to see his girlfriend now that she is a "hip-swingin', fringe-slingin' Watusi go go girl". It is featured in the compilation album Essential Pebbles, Volume 1, where it is incorrectly titled "Go Go Girl" in the track listing, and attributed to "unknown artist".

Cover versions

  • In 1970, Jonathan King reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart with his cover of Let It All Hang Out.
  • John Mellencamp recorded a cover of this song which was featured on the CD Big Daddy as a hidden track.
  • The Nails released a cover version on their 1984 album Mood Swing
  • Barney Pip recorded a cover of this song which was featured on the CD Pebbles, Volume 7.
  • David Lee Roth recorded a cover version of Let It All Hang Out on his 2003 solo album Diamond Dave.
  • One of the earliest uses of the song was when it was sampled in 1968 by Dickie Goodman for his single Washington Uptight.
  • It was featured on the 1998 box set Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968.
  • It was included on the soundtrack of the 2005 film Elizabethtown.
  • Foster's Lager used it in a 2006 advertisement for Foster's Twist.
  • The song was sampled by London dance music group Definition of Sound on their 1991 single "Wear Your Love Like Heaven".

    • References

    Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) Wikipedia
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