Tommy James,the hit machine.This was truly america's answer to The Beatles."I think we're alone now."Every young chick would put on their go-go boots and dance to this and forget The Beatles even existed.After all is said and as it shall be...the true originals shall be few in number.The american artists still hold the lead.Everyone else is doing an imitation of us.We were the first to possess the recording technology, how do you make that sound? and let me also tell you this,it is every bit as much a science as it is an art.The foundation is the science.Tommy James was a HUGE bubblegum star but his aspirations were to be psychedelic.His first release "Hanky Panky" tanked until it was discovered by a pittsburg DJ.It was put out again after he signed with roulette records in new york and then it went to number one in the usa.The thing that strikes me the most about it is that it was the demo that made it.The original demo was mastered and released and it was not re-mixed by the label.It is the original demo he cut back in Michigan with his high school buddies.You can hear him talking on it between vocal lines.