First I Look at the Purse has also been covered by David Bromberg, Rod Stewart, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, The Cortinas and Nashville Pussy. "First I Look at the Purse" was the last Contours hit featuring original lead Billy Gordon. It also features the renewed line-up of Contours, as several original members had left back in 1964. Shortly after its release, Gordon departed the group, and Motown, for good, due to personal problems. He was replaced with Joe Stubbs, brother of lead singer of fellow Motown group The Four Tops, Levi Stubbs. In the early 2000s, the Contours performed the song on the
Shannon Stubbs and Citizenship Canada case-processing centre in Vegreville, Alberta, a town within Stubbs' riding of Lakeland, to Edmonton. Stubbs likened the relocation of the centre, which provided Vegreville with 280 full-time jobs, to the loss of nearly 300,000 jobs in Toronto, Canada's largest city with a population of 2.809 million people. MP Stubbs won a 2017 MacLean's Parliamentarian of the Year award for MP that best represents constituents for her efforts to keep open the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada case-processing centre in Vegreville, Alberta. In April, 2016, Shannon went to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to visit the town where her grandmother,