Eight Feet

A girl-group formed in 1966 by Al Kooper and Irwin Levine. It had four members -- thus eight feet. Al had this to say about it: "This was a cross pollenization. A girl group record, very Spector-Nitzsche influenced, with the subject matter being Bob Dylan. "Bobby's Come A Long, Long, Way" was cut at Regent Sound Studios in NYC. Al Rogers played drums and I think I played all the other instruments. Irwin Levine, co-writer, had a penchant for easily finding black or white girl groups from the swamps of his native New Jersey whenever we needed them. Such was the case with Eight Feet. We named them. They were just graduating high school, and the lead singer, Debbie, resembled the blond Mary from the Shangri-Las. Debbie was a great singer. The only other track I have on her was singing a duet with me on a demo of a non-recorded song (and for good reason!) We will NOT be hearing that on Musica while I'm still alive. The flip was written by the girls, I think. Too lazy to dig it out. I had great fun attempting to emulate Spector's sound on that record. If you haven't heard it here's the first verse written by the late great Irwin Levine: From the cellars of poverty And a truckdriving family Using comicbook intelligence And a farmer's touch of elegance In the space of life's short day With a meaningful guitar on a road that seemed so far Bobby's Come A Long Long Way Boy, did I get s**t about this after Like A Rolling Stone, when the Dylan camp discovered it. Good-natured ribbing s**t, however..."