NEW * Poor Side Of Town - Johnny Rivers {Stereo} 1966

1966....#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #1 Canada Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound / Audio track edited for video. “Poor Side of Town“ is a song by Johnny Rivers that reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the RPM Canadian Chart in November 1966. The song marked a turning point in Rivers’ career that saw him move away from his earlier rock and roll style toward pop ballads. Johnny Rivers would recall of “Poor Side of Town“: “I don’t know what inspired was not from any personal experience, because I was living in Beverly Hills.“ Although he’d describe it as “an easy song to write“, Rivers would say the song: “ five months to kept writing little bits and pieces of it.“ With the parent album of “Poor Side of Town“: Changes, Rivers shifted from southern rock to an orchestral pop sound with a string-&-brass arrangement by Marty Paich who had orchestrated the recent
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