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
It Doesn't Have to Be It Doesn't Have to Be "It Doesn't Have to Be" is a song by British synthpop duo Erasure, released in February 1987. It was issued as a single six weeks before the release of the duo's second album, "The Circus". Following the number-two UK placing of previous single "Sometimes", "It Doesn't Have to Be" became Erasure's second Top 20 hit in the UK (peaking at number twelve) and their third German Top 20 hit (number sixteen). The lyrics of the song refer to apartheid in Africa and explain the bit of the middle of the song, sung in Kiswahili that,