The Hombres
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The Hombres were a Memphis, Tennessee, band best known for the 1967 single "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)".
Formed in 1966, The Hombres comprised Gary Wayne McEwen on guitar, B.B. Cunningham (brother of Bill Cunningham of The Box Tops) on lead vocals and electric organ, Jerry Lee Masters on bass and John Will Hunter (died 1976) on drums. Written by McEwen and Cunningham and released on Verve Forecast, "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" hit No. 12 in 1967 and was revived on the soundtrack of the 2005 Cameron Crowe film Elizabethtown. It has also been used in a U.S. advertising campaign for Foster's Lager and included on the compilation album Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. An alternate version of the song by the disc jockey Barney Pip was included on the Pebbles Volume 7 CD. The song was also covered by Jonathan King in 1969,[1] and appeared on his 1989 compilation The Butterfly That Stamped. Yet another version was recorded by The Nails in the mid 1980s.
The song's spoken intro – "A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptations of Eve" – dates to the 1947 novelty recording "Cigareetes, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women" by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven.[2]
[edit] Discography
- 1967: "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" (Cunningham; McEwen), Verve Forecast 5058, #12 (US Billboard Hot 100 chart)[3]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The Hombres at Allmusic
- Biography from The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin
