Mustang Sally (song) Australian charts and #17 on the New Zealand charts. Mustang Sally (song) "Mustang Sally" is a rhythm and blues (R&B) song written and first recorded by Mack Rice in 1965. It was released on the Blue Rock label (4014) in May 1965 with "Sir Mack Rice" as the artist. The song uses an AAB layout with a 24-bar structure. It gained greater popularity when Wilson Pickett covered it the following year on a single, a version that was also released on the 1966 album, "The Wicked Pickett". Also in 1966, John Lee Hooker recorded an entirely different song with a
Only Happy When It Rains peaking at number 34 on the Dutch Top 40 and number 36 on the Single Top 100. In 1999, B-side "Girl Don't Come" was used in the PlayStation game F1 Racing Championship. The promotional video for "Only Happy When It Rains" was filmed in mid-January 1996 in Los Angeles by director Samuel Bayer, simultaneously with the video for single "Stupid Girl". As Almo Sounds thought "Only Happy When It Rains" would be more successful, its video was given a higher budget than "Stupid Girl". The video debuted in the United States on February 12, 1996, being certified one day later