Mustang Sally (song)

"Mustang Sally"
Single by Wilson Pickett
from the album The Wicked Pickett
B-side"Three Time Loser"
Released1966
GenreR&B
Length3:08
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Mack Rice
Producer(s)Jerry Wexler, Rick Hall
Wilson Pickett singles chronology
"Land of a Thousand Dances"
(1966)
"Mustang Sally"
(1966)
"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"
(1967)

"Mustang Sally" is a rhythm and blues (R&B) song written and first recorded by Mack Rice in 1965.[1] It was released on the Blue Rock label (4014) in May 1965 with "Sir Mack Rice" as the artist.[2] The song uses an AAB layout with a 24-bar structure.[3]

It gained greater popularity when Wilson Pickett covered it the following year on a single, a version that was also released on the 1966 album The Wicked Pickett.[4] Also in 1966, John Lee Hooker recorded an entirely different song with a similar title — "Mustang Sally & GTO."

In 2000, the Wilson Pickett version of "Mustang Sally' on Atlantic Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[5]

  1. ^ "Sir Mack Rice Discography". Melingo.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-01. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  2. ^ Singles reviews Spotlights. Billboard Mar 27, 1965 page 65
  3. ^ "AAB Song Form — Songstuff". Songstuff.com. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  4. ^ "The Wicked Pickett by Wilson Pickett on Apple Music". Itunes.apple.com. 1941-03-18. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  5. ^ https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#m [bare URL]

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