jim holvay wrote the song kind of a drag.
jim holvay wrote the song kind of a drag.
who wrote the song kind of a drag?
jim holvay
in early 1966, legros was forced to leave after he was drafted. right around the same time, bassist bachman also left and nick fortuna (now playing bass and soon briefly going under the surname of fortune, after it was misspelled on the record jacket) returned after a stint with jimmy v. & the entertainers. the band then signed their first record contract with local label usa records and recorded twelve songs that year. several were released as singles, including "i'll go crazy", a song originally recorded by james brown & the famous flames, and the beatles' "i call your name". however, it was their number one single, "kind of a drag", that provided them with national exposure. "kind of a drag" was written by chicago-based songwriter jim holvay, who had been performing with a group called the mob, and spent two weeks at the top of the "billboard" hot 100 in february 1967. it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. the co-producers of "kind of a drag" were the band's first personal manager, carl bonafede, and big band leader dan belloc, owner of the holiday ballroom in chicago. the horns on the song were arranged by frank tesinsky and the engineer at the first recording sessions held at chess records in chicago was ron malo. following this, the band's debut album, also entitled "kind of a drag", was released on usa records and featured the band's early recordings.
the buckinghams
“whiskey” was written by songwriters catt gravitt and sam mizell. mizell said she came up with the title and concept of the song and then shared it with gravitt. mizell said of writing the song with gravitt, "catt is one of the best writers out there these days," mizell explains. "it was her idea to have everybody call him 'cornbread' and all that stuff. i was like, 'oh man. . .that's great!' i had a little bit of the chorus, but then she kind of took off with it. we kind of messed around on the chorus for a while, and the song kind of took off on its own." kramer told the boot in an interview, “… [the song] says, 'the burn, the sting and the high. i should have just called him whiskey, because that's exactly what he does to me.' i love it. it's a little bit darker, which is nice and a little more rockin' once it gets into the chorus." mizell continued on of how the lyrics got to kramer “we wrote it several years ago, and she was working with jana at the time… catt played it for her, and jana really liked it. they ended up recording it, and they put it on that ‘one tree hill’ tv show, i think in 2011.”
whiskey (jana kramer song)