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
Shlomit Levi Shlomit Levi Shlomit Levi (; born March 9, 1983) is an Israeli singer. She is a member of the folk metal group Orphaned Land, performing on their albums "Mabool" (2004), "The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR" (2010) and "Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs" (2018). She currently performs with American guitarist Bruce Burger in the world music duo Shlomit & RebbeSoul. Levi was born in Kiryat Ekron to a Yemenite Jewish family before moving to Rehovot when she was 10. Her parents came to Israel from Yemen as teenagers during Operation Magic Carpet. She began singing at the age of three