710 Don Covay (1936-2015) “Mercy, Mercy” 1964

“Mr. Covay: I was on the stage, right? I had a guitar player. I had a group at that time called The Goodtimers, right? And all of a sudden, they stopped playing the riff—Ronnie Moon stopped playing the riffraff. All of a sudden, my mind just jumped on it. I said, ‘Have mercy.’ When we got through with it, he said, ‘Whose song is that?’ and asked, ‘Call the studio right now. I’ll call the studio on Sunday if it’s necessary.’ I said, ‘We’re going to cut this.’ When we cut it, we took two takes” (Weekend Edition Sunday, 4/22/2001). 

Don Covay “Mercy, Mercy”