I worked at a large Summer retreat in 1966. I had a great job along with 3 other guys. We picked up and delivered laundry to all the dorms and hotels on campus.
We had our own truck and would drive into town to deliver and pick up from the laundry. We pretty much were our own boss. We would sometimes stop at a drug store and read the sports magazines especially Street & Smith. Other times we would go and watch the Atlanta Falcons practice at Blue Ridge Assembly.
One day we were in a hall delivering clean laundry when we heard someone rocking out on a piano. I mean he was playing it like a hurricane. It was “Double Shot.”
Three of us ran into the building to see who was playing it and it was the fourth of our group, Duncan Bridewell. I can still hear that piano.
Life in Germany was exciting and adventuresome, but it presented some challenges for a young American whose life's soundtrack was the Top 40. Armed Forces Network's AM radio station broadcasting out of Frankfurt played mostly Adult Contemporary music. For example, the number one song on AFN Frankfurt for the first week of June, 1966 was Dominique's Discotheque. Why it appealed to expatriates in West Germany is a mystery. The record didn't even chart stateside and became a super-rare collector's item. I would not hear it again until Youtube came along four decades later.
On weekends you could hear Hawaiian music, polkas and "Oldies" played by Jim Pewter. It was Pewter's Saturday afternoon "Oldies" show that first stimulated my interest in popular songs of the past.
However, Top 40 rock was strictly taboo unless Ira Cook played it on his morning show, which was streamed in from Los Angeles. My portable transistor radio couldn't reach Radio Luxembourg, which played the British and European Top 40 hits, so I was out of luck when it came to getting my musical fix over the airwaves.
However, the American Youth Activities (AYA) snack bar had a jukebox that was stocked with the latest hits from the States, and "Double Shot' was one of them.