Can You Jerk Like Me Jerry Green, Council Gay, and Alvin English. Later members included the returning Sylvester Potts, and Dennis Edwards. With the return of Sylvester Potts, lead singer Gordon then departed the group for good, to be replaced by Joseph Stubbs (brother of The Four Tops' lead singer Levi Stubbs). Joe Stubbs would also leave shortly after; the reconstituted group with Dennis Edwards as lead continued to record with Motown through 1967. The song's flip side, the Smokey Robinson written-and-produced "That Day When She Needed Me", which featured the original Contours before their departure, was also a hit, reaching #37 on the Cash
Joe Stubbs also made the UK Top 40, reaching #31, when it was re-released in 1970. It is the only Contours single to feature Stubbs on lead, as he left the group shortly after recording it. Singer Dennis Edwards replaced him; Edwards recorded with the group until 1967, when he was drafted as replacement lead singer of The Temptations, taking over from David Ruffin. Stubbs then briefly recorded as a member of fellow Motown group The Originals. The group had come together in 1966, and their first single release, a cover of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", features Stubbs on lead. Initial Originals