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Written by: Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Produced by: Terry Melcher
Released: March '66 on Columbia
Charts: 14 weeks
Top spot: No. 4

After the Animals hit with "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," producer Melcher asked the song's writers, Brill Building veterans Weil and Mann, to do something similar for Pacific Northwest garage rockers Paul Revere and the Raiders. The result was an antidrug song ("Girl, you better get straight") set to a chiming twelve-string guitar hook that became the group's first Top Ten hit.

Appears on: Midnight Ride (Sundazed)

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