What early Pre-Rumours era songs do you consider to be "hits"?

[slipkid]

Originally Posted by Wouter Vuijk

Maybe, but Mr. Wonderful did not include Danny, and had a big reliance on Jeremy. So that line-up actually did very well.

Jeremy Spencer's version of "Shake Your Moneymaker", is balls on blues! It proved that the Brits could do it better than John Mayall, and he was the godfather after Alexis Korner. It also made the Paul Butterfield version sound "white suburban blues, American style". Spencer's slide ability was beyond reproach for all white guitarists at the time (pre Duane Allman), yet Spencer fell into an Ellmore James rut. "Mr. Wonderful" is that example.

[Wouter Vuijk]

Originally Posted by slipkid

It proved that the Brits could do it better than John Mayall.

John Mayall is Brit as well

[slipkid]

Originally Posted by Wouter Vuijk

John Mayall is Brit as well

My analogy was that Mayall did it better than Alexis Korner. FM did it better than Mayall. I was writing that the British blues movement went beyond Mayall.