Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out of My Hat, A Jukebox Out of My Trunk & A Hit Single Out of My….
In 1968, Larry Norman and his band, People, scored a fluke Top 20 hit with a cover of a Zombies B-side called I Love You.
Not long after that, my college-aged brother came rolling into the driveway with a jukebox in the trunk of his car. I’m not entirely sure where he got it (or why) but I Love You was among the songs that came the machine.
I wasn’t allowed to “mess around” with it so I was constantly dragging my brother out to the garage, asking him to plug it and playing the songs over and over. That may well be the reason why my Dad got rid of it when my brother went back to school.
Norman, quoted on All Music Guide as an equally devote follower of both Jesus Christ and Elvis Presley, never saw fit to try and duplicate his success. Instead, he went on to become the “godfather of Jesus Rock”.
On the flip side of I Love You is this cut, which is no longer available except on the single.
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