What astonished me about “Little Red Corvette” was what Prince could do with just 3 chords: G-flat, A-flat, D-flat 2nd inversion. The guy was brilliant. Just had a bad personality.
Gary Puckett came from Yakima, Washington, a city next to the small town of Union Gap. He attracted the attention of producer Jerry Fuller at Columbia Records, who wrote and produced a number of power ballads for him and his band. This one, which we dubbed “The Jail-bait Song”, came in at #2 this week.
The Union Gap: “Young Girl”