Do The Boomerang

by request- for a good friend!

don't know much about the dance, but this is one hell of a tribute to it!

A roll call for one of Hitsville U.S.A.'s most rocking bands:
Junior Walker- saxaphone (of course!), Victor Thomas- organ, Willie Woods- guitar, James Graves- drums

Motown was wise in not trying, at least for a couple of years, to polish Jr. Walker and the All Stars. What's wrong with a healthy dose of hot-house rock and funk? Here, the band gives a full-out assault on a step-by-step instructional on the dance, The Boomerang.

This one deserves close listening becasue so much is going on below the surface: Willie Woods is playing a killer of a repeating, hypnotic riff from start to fade, which in turn is "answered" by one-syllable response of a second guitar. James Graves' drum work is a bit more subtle (and complex) here with more emphasis on the bottom range (notice how the bass drum more or less drives the song along)

Victor Thomas echoes the style he employed on "Shotgun" by providing a THICK, testifying riff in response to Junior's vocal instructions.

You can also detect the presence of Motown's Funk Brothers augmenting this immense track on bongos and tambourine and possibly another guitar or two.

I'm certain that there dance floors had to issue flood warnings whenever this was played as it's such a hot number, who would have been able to resist the urge to get up and Do The Boomerang?

Written by Autry DeWalt (Jr. Walker), Henry Cosby, Willie Woods. Produced by Henry Cosby and William "Mickey" Stevenson.