“Let Her Dance” by Bobby Fuller Four

"Let Her Dance" started out as another Bobby Fuller tune, "Keep on Dancing", until producer Bob Keane got hold of it. Keane slowed it down and built in a bottle-tapping beat, inspired by Bobby's brother Randy tapping along on a beer bottle, and Randy reworked the bass line too. It became the Bobby Fuller Four's fourth single in the Del-Fi fold, issued on Mustang in 1965 with "Another Sad and Lonely Night" on the flip, and the first of their records to draw notice beyond home turf.

Los Angeles took to it, but nationally it stalled at 133, outside the Top 100, and reissues, one on Liberty, couldn't budge it. The group kept it close anyway, playing it on Shivaree and Where the Action Is, and it landed on the KRLA King of the Wheels LP that year and I Fought the Law in 1966.

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