- The Hombres
The Hombres were a Memphis,
Tennessee band that formed in 1966 with Gary Wayne McEwen onguitar , B.B. Cunningham on theelectric organ (brother ofBill Cunningham ofThe Box Tops ), Jerry Lee Masters on bass and John Will Hunter (died1976 ) on thedrum s.The Hombres' "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" is included on the
soundtrack of theCameron Crowe film , "Elizabethtown". It has also been used in an advertising campaign forFoster's Lager . It was a hit originally in 1967, peaking at #12 in theU.S. The origin of the other bizarre
lyrics in thissong is presumably from thesongwriter s, but the spoken introduction – "I preach, my dear friends, you are about to receive onJohn Barleycorn ,nicotine and the temptations of Eve" – goes all the way back to 1947, when they served to introduce a song that was every bit as strange for its era as this one was in 1967: "Cigareetes, Whusky and Wild Wild Women" by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven.Discography
*1967 "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" (Cunningham; McEwen), Verve Forecast 5058, peaked at #12 [http://www.umusic.ca/doublediscgold/] .
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* [http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/The-Hombres.html Biography] from "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music" by Colin Larkin
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