The McCoys
The McCoys were a rock group that started in Union City, Indiana, in 1962. They are best known for their hit "Hang on Sloopy".
Career
The original members, all from Union City, except the Zehringer boys were from Fort Recovery Ohio, guitarist Richard Zehringer (later known as Rick Derringer), his brother Randy on drums, and bassist Dennis Kelly. This first line-up was known as "The Rick Z Combo", and later known as "Rick and the Raiders". When Kelly left for college, the Zehringers were joined by bassist Randy Jo Hobbs, saxophonist Sean Michaels, and keyboardist Ronnie Brandon. This was the line-up that took the name of "The McCoys". Brandon left the group in 1965 and was replaced by Bobby Peterson on keyboards.
One of their best-known songs is "Hang On Sloopy", which was #1 in the United States in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1965 and is the official rock song of the state of Ohio. It also is the unofficial fight song of The Ohio State University Buckeyes and can heard being played at many Ohio State athletic events by the OSU bands. American sales alone were over one million copies. Other hits include a Top 10 cover of "Fever" (Billboard #7), and a Top 40 cover of Ritchie Valens's "Come On Let's Go" (Billboard #21).
Podcasts:
The McCoys
ALBUMS
- Human Ball released: 2008
- Infinite McCoys released: 2008
- Hang on Sloopy: The Best of The McCoys released: 1995
- Hang On Sloopy released:
- Psychedelic Years released:
Hang on Sloopy: The Best of The McCoys
Released 1995- Meet The McCoys
- Hang On Sloopy (full version, unedited)
- I Can't Explain It
- Fever
- Sorrow
- Up and Down
- If You Tell a Lie
- Come On Let's Go
- Little People
- Smokey Joe's Cafe
- Mr. Summer
- Everyday I Have to Cry
- (You Make Me Feel) So Good
- Runaway
- Gator Tails and Monkey Ribs
- Ko-Ko
- Bald Headed Lena
- Say Those Magic Words
- Don't Worry Mother (Your Son's Heart Is Pure)
- I Got to Go Back (And Watch That Little Girl Dance)
- The Dynamite
- Beat the Clock
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by Prince
The Max
by: PrinceWhere are u?
U can relax now, the Max is in control
Go... yeah yeah
When my back is so far back it's on the other side of the wall
When half a chance is all I get if I get a chance at all
When the going gets tougher than the tough can go
I grind the axe - that's when I go, I go, I go 2 the max. I go
The max - Yo baby, tell me where the party's at
The max - Yo baby, I wanna shuffle the cards in that stack (I go)
The max - We can dance if u want 2, but I might break yo back
The max - More funk for your buck u can bet on that
When they tell me 2 walk a straight line
I put on crooked shoes
When they tell me that I can't live forever
I pay some overdues (Kick it)
When they start makin' up a crazy rule
That's when I break a back
Cuz when I go, I go, I go 2 the max. I go
The max - Yo baby (oh yeah), tell me where the party's at
The max - Yo baby, I wanna shuffle the cards in that stack (oh, yeah yeah)
The max - We can dance if u want 2 (ooh yeah), but I might break yo back
(2 the max)
The max - More funk for your buck u can bet on that
Let's go
Let's go
Let's go
Let's go
Oh, yeah yeah!
(Dig it) When my body starts to shiver from the chill of
The scarlet sweat
When my lips eclipse the sun and the moon
Reflecting from the wet
When the blood of my love outraces
Every one of the stallions in your pack - that's when
U go, u go, u go 2 the max. U go
The max (2 the max)
The max (oooh, get funky)
The max (get-get-get funky) (2 the max)
The max (get funky)
Let' go
I think I'm gonna like this
Let's go (dance)
I wanna dance
Let's go
Let's go
Let's go (Oh yeah yeah! )
I go 2 the max
I'm not afraid (oh my god)
I wanna dance
Then listen -
When the going gets tougher than the tough can go
I grind the axe - that's when I go, I go, I go 2 the max. I go
The max - Yo baby, tell me where the party's at
The max - Yo baby, I wanna shuffle the cards in that stack
The max - We can dance if u want 2, but I might break yo back
The max - More funk for your buck u can bet on that
This is the max
Dear love, dear love, dear love
Forgive me 4 my sins
But u left me in such a cold cold world to suffer in (kick it)
And Contrary 2 popular belief
Even though one's life is brief
If u go there once u
Come again and again and
Let's go
[I'm so sorry for u...]