Album: Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits (1966)

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• Mustang Sally, huh, ha
  Guess you better slow your mustang down, oh Lord
  What I said now
  Mustang Sally now baby, oh Lord
  Guess you better slow your mustang down, huh, oh yeah
  You been running all over town now
  Oh, guess I have to put your flat feet on the ground, huh
  What I said now
  
  Listen
  All you want to do is ride around Sally (ride, Sally, ride) Huh
  All you want to do is ride around Sally (ride, Sally, ride) Huh
  All you want to do is ride around Sally (ride, Sally, ride) Ha
  All you want to do is ride around Sally, oh Lord (ride, Sally, ride)
  Well isn't it
  
  One of these early mornings, hey
  Woah, gonna be wiping your weeping eyes, huh
  What I said now, lookit here
  
  I bought you a brand new mustang
  A nineteen sixty five, huh
  Now you come around signifying a woman
  You don't want to let me ride
  Mustang Sally now baby, oh lord
  Guess you better slow that mustang down, huh, oh Lord
  Lookit
  You been running all over town
  Oh, I got to put your flat feet on the ground, huh
  What I say now
  Let me say it one more time, y'all
  
  Now, all you want to do is ride around Sally (ride, Sally, ride) Huh
  All you want to do is ride around Sally (ride, Sally, ride) Oh Lord Writer/s: Mack Rice
  Publisher: Audiam, Inc., SPRINGTIME MUSIC INC, TuneCore Inc.
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Comments: 15

• David W. Landrum from Grand Rapids, MichiganI hear "Ride, Sally, Ride" often connected with keyboards or organ, as in "Dance to the Music": "You might like to hear my organ. I said, Ride, Sally, Ride"--then comes a short organ riff. "Did Mustang Sally" have an organ in the band playing the music for the song? I've heard this phrase used and connected in this manner in several songs.
• Jennifur SunHey this may sound strange to some folks, but I too, would rather have had one of them Poneys, instead of a Lincoln
• D. Hubbard from GeorgiaI purchased the painting that Pickett commissioned and used on his label for that single. The painting is signed by HB in 1969. I would love to find more information on the artist who painted this.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 17th 1964, the Ford Motor Co. introduced the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair. Based price was $2,368 and 22,000 orders were place on the first day of its introduction...
  Two years and seven months later on November 20th, 1966 Wilson Pickett's "Mustang Sally" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #66; four weeks later on December 18th, 1966 it would peak at #23 {for 1 week} and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100...
  Personally, in 1964 I was in the U.S. Navy and stationed at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and the base PX raffled off a blue Mustang at $1 per chance and I was one of the ten finalists, but sadly I didn't win {when I was discharged from the Navy in 1967, I purchased a 1963 used Volkswagen}.
• Joel Hugh Mchaggis from Wick, United KingdomClassic song. I like the version sung in The Commitments. Not sure people born after 1970 would know who Wilson Pickett was.
• Joel Hugh Mchaggis from Wick, United KingdomClassic song. I like the version sung in The Commitments. Not sure people born after 1970 would know who Wilson Pickett was.
• Doug from Grand Rapids, MiMy two favorite cover versions are from Buddy Guy and from Magic Slim & the Teardrops
• Camille from Toronto, OhOh, I think the very best songfact about this song is that a woman named SALLY RIDE became the first U.S. woman, as well as the youngest American at that time, to travel into space in 1983. Newspapers printed large pictures of her on their front page with the headlines "Ride Sally Ride!" It is simply wonderful that she had that name and that particular claim to fame.
• Bud from Birmingham, AlThe drummer was Roger Hawkins. He was a major part of the Muscle Shoals Sound. They recorded at Rick Hall's FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
  Roger and the rest of the Muscle Shoals Rythm Section were inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame back in the 90s.
• Arnie from Phila, Padoes anybody know who the drummer was on "Mustang Sally"?
• Richard from Amitville, NyThis song was also cover by the Rascals In 1966
  and was a better version in my opinion then wilson pickett who recorded it a year later. which is funny because thats the only version I reall listen to when I hear wilsons version I cringe.
• Jim from Tsumeb, Namibia"Mustang Sally" is a great song that's been totally under-rated. It's got everything a blues song needs, and nobody does it better than Wilson Pickett. Sadly, you never hear "Mustang Sally" on the radio anymore, you never even hear it on "Golden Oldies" programmes, and that's a shame. I don't think this song was made to sing fast, but slowly and soulfully.
• Jennifer from Indianapolis, InThe version of this song sung by the band in the movie, "The Commitments" was the first time I had ever heard this song. I like the original as well as the remake by The Commitments' - it's a bit faster and louder than the original.
• Don from B G, KyThis song is played in the movie "Miss Congeniality". After FBI agent Sandra Bullock has her make-over for the upcoming beauty/talent contest.
• Steve from Gaithersburg, MdThe song was written by Bonnie Rice (AKA "Sir" Mack Rice), who wrote for such artists as The Staple Singers, Etta James, Eddie Floyd, and many others. He worked a lot down at Muscle Shoals studios, where he wrote "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin" that was popularized by Lynyrd Skynyrd, (who also popularized the studio in the song "Sweet Home Alabama...but I digress)
  
  Mustang Sally reached #6 on the R&B charts in 1966, and was only the 4th of 16 Top 40 hits that Pickett would earn during his career.
  
  An excellent cover by The Commitments for the movie The Commitments in 1991 re-introduced the song to a whole new audience, and helped earn Pickett a healthy measure of respect with another generation of music lovers.
  
  Pickett was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1991

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