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• Peter S. from St. Germain, WisconsinFor the original poster:
  Listen to me when I'm speaking
  'Cuz you know the words I'm thinking
  And I know that you've been cheating
  Oh I hope that we'll be meeting
• Larry Gray from Edwards, MsI have never known anyone that knew the words that the background singers are singing. Does anyone know this?
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyPer: www.legacy.com
  Former Buckingham Marty Grebb passed away on January 1st, 2020 at the age of 74...
  He was a talented multi-instrumentalist who was a member of the Chicago pop rock band The Buckinghams from 1966 until 1968. The band needed a keyboard player and Grebb was with the band for their biggest hit songs including “Kind of a Drag"...
  After his Buckinghams stint, Grebb played with Bonnie Raitt for 25 years and worked with major musicians including Eric Clapton and Leon Russell. He also was a member of the Band tribute band, the Weight, which included former members of the Band and Levon Helm’s band...
  May he R.I.P.
• Lisa M. from ChicagoAround 1972 while in 6th grade at St. Bavo in Mishawaka, IN I had a teacher named Mr. Gast who once mentioned to the class that he played a horn instrument for The Buckinghams. He never actually said he was a band member but this has stuck with me all these years. I cannot find any information where his name is affiliated with the band. Any ideas on how to find him? I only know his last name. Just curious! Thank you.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyMmmm, two of the three Buckingham songs, "Kind of a Drag" & "Mercy. Mercy. Mercy"; that made the Top 10 are on Songfacts but not the third, "Don't You Care"???
  Well on March 5th 1967, "Don't You Care" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at #100; and nine weeks later on May 7th, 1967 it peaked at #6 {for 1 week} and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
  The quintet just missed having a fourth Top 10 record when "Susan" peaked at #11 {for 3 weeks} on January 21st, 1968.
• Lazur from ChicagoTampa organist Dean Germaine, interviewed in the Oct/Nov'14 "Big City Rhythm & Blues" mentions that he played on "Kind of Drag". He seems to be saying he was a member of the band, but was too young to tour, (apparently a seventh grader at the time!). I'm fairly sure that Marty Grebb wasn' in the band until a song or two later, but this is news to me. Any truth to it?
• Ted from New Port Richey, Fli cant find the words to kind of a drag by the buckinghams any where i have been looking for hours does any one know where i can look or does any one know them tedmal1@hotmail.com
• Michael from Mcfarland, WiTheir debut album on USA is really amazing! One of the best lp efforts from this era. Features rocking organ instrumentals, a James Brown cover, fuzz guitar - it can't be beat!
• Rick from Belfast, MeBack in the days of 45's.....my neighbor across the road would play this song forever and a day all summer the year it came out.....surprised that she didn't wear out the grooves...lol
• Steve from Whittier, CaThe Buckinghams even played for the President Obama? Impressive!
  
  
  Can't believe that I'm the first to post a comment.
  
  There are two versions of "Kind of a Drag", for the second commentator [if just one person contributed fatcs on each.]
  The James William "Blood, Sweat and Tears" and "Chicago" Guercio recordings IS NOT the original. James William Guercio was ALWAYS connected WITH COLUMBIA Records. The Buckinghams were on the small USA records but it DOES cause confusion in this context, and my Columbia reissue even lists "April 1969" for the date,
  which is overall wrong. "Kind of a drag" in the original single version and other Buckinghams songs do have some horns, but hardly featured and an organ and strings are for the original song, and it's faster played. This is another [Light My Fire" by the one and only Doors is another] song with a reissue single that's oft-confused for the original, which it is not.
  
  Fun factoid: "Kind of a Drag"'s acronym initals; KOAD. Rhymes with TOAD.
  

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