Mustang Sally : Rolling Stone

Written by: Sir Mack Rice
Produced by: Jerry Wexler
Released: Nov. '66 on Atlantic
Charts: 9 weeks
Top spot: No. 23

"Mustang Sally" nearly ended up on the studio floor -- literally. After Pickett finished his final take at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the tape suddenly flew off the reel and broke into pieces. But the session engineer, the legendary Tom Dowd, calmly cleared the room and told everyone to come back in half an hour. Dowd pieced the tape back together and saved what became one of the funkiest soul anthems of the Sixties.

Appears on: The Very Best of Wilson Pickett (Rhino)

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