Fellow Cordials band member Leonard Capizzi and Pickett wrote the song together and pitched it to record labels. They were rejected four times before it was picked up by Gary S. Paxton’s Garpax ...
This 1962 Top 10 hit by the man who would achieve a global number one 12 years later with “The Streak” is a novelty song packed with stereotypes about Arab people. Stevens even pronounces ...