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- Can_You_Jerk_Like_Me abstract "Can You Jerk Like Me (Gordy G7037) is a 1964 R&B song by Motown Records group The Contours, issued on its Gordy Records subsidiary. It charted on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #57, and a Top 20 hit on its R&B chart, reaching # 16. A single-only release, it did not appear on any original Contours studio album, as the group only had one album release during their 5 years on the label, 1962's Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance).(Note: It has been recently revealed that this song was recorded for a planned, but unreleased Contours album for Motown in 1964 entitled The Contours: Can You Dance (Gordy 910).[1] This album was released, in modified form, by the import label, Kent Records, in 2011 under the name Dance With The Contours under license from Motown Records). [2] A powerful,propulsive up-tempo rocker, tailor-made for Motown's dynamic Contours, this was one of several songs based on The Jerk, a popular 1960s dance craze. Led by Billy Gordon, one of the group's 2 lead singers, this song was written by Motown staff songwriter/producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, (who also doubled as the Motown label's A&R director) and songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter.An instructional dance number, Billy Gordon, as the group's narrator, invites the listener to learn the jerk, with the words:"Can You Do The Jerk?Come on, let's workMove your shoulders up and down...your feet don't leave the ground...Anyone can do it...Friends,there's nothing to it.It's for young or old...all it takes is soul...And I just wanna knowCan You Jerk Like Me".The Capitols' more successful 1966 Top 10 song, Cool Jerk, borrows heavily from Can You Jerk Like Me in key and tempo,and partially, even lyrics ( The Contours' "c'mon, child-ren" vs. The Capitols' "C'mon peo-ple") and, not coincidentally, both songs feature music by Motown's hot studio band, The Funk Brothers, with the Motown musicians moonlighting for the non-Motown group's Karen Records release.Sadly, 1964 would also prove to be the last year that the original Contours would record for Motown. Despite being among the label's earliest artists, The Contours never received the attention or promotion that the other Motown acts received because Motown head Berry Gordy felt that the group didn't have enough "crossover potential". With the sole exception of Contours lead vocalist Billy Gordon (who sang lead on the group's biggest hit, the million-selling Do You Love Me), and guitarist Huey Davis, all of the rest of the group, Joe Billingslea, Billy Hoggs, Hubert Johnson, and Sylvester Potts - quit the label. Keeping Gordon and Davis, Gordy then built a new Contours group around them, with new members including Jerry Green, Council Gay,and Alvin English. Later members included the returning Sylvester Potts, and Dennis Edwards.With the return of Sylvester Potts, Lead singer Gordon then departed the group for good,to be replaced by Joseph Stubbs (brother of The Four Tops' lead singer Levi Stubbs, and the reconstituted group would continue to record with Motown through 1967*.The song's flip side, the Smokey Robinson written-and-produced That Day When She Needed Me,which featured the original Contours before their departure, (Billy Gordon, Billy Hoggs, Sylvester Potts, Joe Billingslea, Hubert Johnson, & Huey Davis) was also a hit, reaching #37 on the Cash Box R&B chart. Both songs have appeared on several Contours' Motown compilation CD collections.An instrumental version of Can You Jerk Like Me (the original backing track), was released by Motown's house band Earl Van Dyke and The Funk Brothers (under the pseudonym "Earl Van Dyke and The Soul Brothers" on their 1965 album "That Motown Sound" (Motown 631) [3] [4]".
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