Cherry Slush - I Cannot Stop You Classic Garage Rock

[93dontpanic]

i just had an interview with Brian Bennet for a school project and he mentioned Cherry Slush so i felt like i should google them... cool stuff

[rickrocks65]

Are you guys going to appear at the Daniels Den reunion in Saginaw next year?

[TerenceTeng2]

Amazing music. :D What's your opinion about current Garage Rock bands like The Datsuns, Hellacopters, The Hives or The Vines?

[gk10002000]

Just a fantastic transition at 1:19. then at 1:30 or so the "falling down " guitar. I just picture well, never mind. Great song

[zzwc81]

I used to watch you guys practice in your garage as a kid.....good memories

[Ajolanka]

This rocks

[fungoo989]

In tribute to my friend and Cherry Slush guitarist Gene Bruce...a really wonderful person and excellent guitarist, Gene...you are missed. RIP my friend.

[666UFO666]

I love this song!!!



[susanmichelson]

Great tune -- Dick Wagner, songwriter and producer... recorded before Wagner's days with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss.... Also check out other cool Wagner tunes from this time: "You're The Girl For Me" and "Sunshine."

[DerGlaetze]

Can anybody tell me if this song can be purchased on ITunes?

[geoabe302]

@DerGlaetze you can find it on a few compilations, search itunes and I'm sure you will find it.

[killuminati63]

i love this you and ultimate spinach are here on utube great work and thanks for sharing

[LastTree]

I really like the bass lines.

[Lamvesp]

I first heard this on the Pebbels compilation over 20 years ago and it's still blows me away, sublime.

[KOSMICKEN09]

Love it....this whole era of pop/garage rock is so much fun.

[runway27r]

This should have been Top 5 worldwide, or at least across the U.S. Damn program directors.

[kaismolben]

One of my all time favourits. Know this song for about 25 years and it`s still not boring!

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out! Thank u dude

[ellenhall]

i love it

[freakbeatno1]

Fantastic!How the hell did we miss this in England?

[Danieps]

i love this song. Thank you!

[compound32]

it took me a day honestly to learn 1 song and about a month and a half to begin my own riffs so i'm doing pretty good.

[kricky71]

Great tune!

[n2uid01]

I DO remember!!!

[anycolouryouwant]

phenomenally good song... im hearing this for the first time sitting in my pokey little uni room drinking red wine and smoking... perfection

[compound32]

hey this is cool man!! i'ma bass player too, to a new garage rock band.

[artiebassplayer]

@compound32 good luck to you... stick in there.. I was 15 when I started playing bass.. I'm 58 now.

[compound32]

hey this is cool man!! i'ma bass player too, to a new garage rock band.

[ItalianDanza]

Great Track... QUALITY ...

[cookmoore]

Always loved this song!

[KimatSubPop]

This is awesome. Great sounds. I've been really digging a new band from New York called The Ghost Tongue.  Check out their vids. You'll get into the power and soul.

[jurriaanwink]

nice!!!

[suzesrc]

thanks for this !

[shueln]

This is amazing.

[harporocks]

RIP Gene,this song is great!

[ShimmyShout]

I like the sound and the voice. This song has a cool end!

[artiebassplayer]

Well, October We lost our Guitar Player, Gene Bruce to a heart attack. He was 59 and like a big brother to me. At least now I know he's in a better place. RIP Gene You were loved by many.....

[ekimkamidar377]

I love this tune. I remember it growing up in G.R.

[d4ff0d1L]

ufff! Still my favourite son EVER!!!

Thank you!

[Pove82]

Fantastic tune. Heard this recently on the Mindrocker compilation, my favourite track on there

[n2uid01]

The 57 year old teenager is here!

[stancicm]

WOW

[madarch52]

very good song

[asuperphantastisch]

great one!

[NcicHit]

5 stars since I have this record.

[angie12323]

Fantastic song sounds like Mr. Kirby by the New Yorkers at the beginning classic pyschedillac garage sound love it

[chocolatesoup66]

i remember seeing these guys on tv, upbeat i think.

[artiebassplayer]

That was us.. I was the guy chewing the gum. LOL.. everyone was pissed....

[beatbands1966]

Thanks for posting. Great pictures.

[d4ff0d1L]

In my case since 1 year ago

Top Dj!!!

[goldenspecial]

Classic Mod track in the 80's

[Skitlus]

This stuff is great!

Too bad it was 23 years before I was born..

[sunshinepoprevival]

We both vote and compile the results. We pick out unknown tunes to us on CD's, old 45's, LPs and now the internet. Your song was number one for 3 weeks. It is one of my personal best songs of all time. I never tire of it. Why can't they make 'em like that anymore. I cannot see how people enjoy today's crap. Well done.

[artiebassplayer]

Thanks.. that was nice. Yea it was my favorite for all these years too. I must have played it 100's of times and still don't get sick if it. I have a young friend who thinks todays stuff is the best but little does she know.. Right? We lived it.

[sunshinepoprevival]

To artiebassplayer. My twin brother and myself were kids in the 60's and our parents always had the radio on. We love those catchy numbers. We do our own top 20 charts on a regular weekly or fortnightly basis. Done so since 1987. Cont....

[74september]

Great song man..

[V1K1N641R]

You know how sometimes a song gets under your skin and you need to hear it several times a day? And you hear it playing over and over in your head when things are quiet but it doesn't drive you crazy because you love it so much? So you get out of bed at 3am to listen to it? Multiple times? Man I hope I don't make myself sick of this song, but it has changed me. I now want to play in a band that plays songs like THIS one. :)

[artiebassplayer]

That's so cool.. Thanks for making my day... check out the Cherry Slush on Myspace and you can see a bunch of old pictures of us.. 40+ years ago when we were kids just having fun and not realizing how long our stuff will be around.. Thanks again..

[JeffN727]

Holy cow! I have this record on the Coconut Groove label, which says "produced at Prophonic Studios, Mt. Morris Mi. I've had it since I was 8 or 9 years old, but it's pretty trashed, too much so to put on YouTube, but it still plays. I have several other records from Prophonic. I think my Dad got them somehow. Prophonic Studios was torn down many many years ago. I've been trying to find more info on it, as I'm from Flint.

Great tune, that still rocks!

[artiebassplayer]

I bet you'd get a couple bucks for it on Ebay. I haven't seen one. I got 2 or 3 in Ex shape. I see our stuff on Ebay all the time. We recorded the tune in Cincy and sold it to the Coconut Groove guys. Then it was bought by USA. It's on about 5-6 labels and still going strong in Europe. Pretty cool for a 40 year old record. Makes me feel like 60. Dah....

[JeffN727]

I don't think I could part with it though. Even though it's cracked.

I'll have to look for another copy.

[hollies65]

Nice tune.

[artiebassplayer]

Thanks, We played with the Hollies in Chicago in 68 on some TV show on the 43rd floor in Downtown Chicago. Smokey Robinson and I think the Rascals were on the same show. I remember staying at a Holiday Inn by O'Hare Airport and the Hollies were there too. They came out and got into the Limo's and we got into our U-Haul van. We were driving on the same street and when a fork came in the Road they went one way we went the other. We waved at each other.. Those were the Days..

[hollies65]

That was a magic time for music, I was 9 in 67, and radio never got any better. You were a lucky guy to have been in the middle of all of it!

[mwolf49]

I wonder what happened to all those "Beatle boots" that every band coming along in those days just HAD to have? Actually I'd just as soon as forget them. . it was my era too. Great memories. Great times. Music was a lot "cleaner" sounding back then. You could actually HEAR the words. Nice work guys.

[artiebassplayer]

Yea, we use to go to Old Town in Chicago when our record was out and we were traveling to get 4" Ties and Bellbottom pants. You couldn't find stuff like that anywhere in Michigan. LOL.

[Paxmanite]

'Beatle' boots are the stuff...Chelsea boots (same thing) are timeless class...

[razzberrysunshine]

This 45 was in a stack for years...I loved it and ask a oldies station to play it a few years ago...they said(WHO?) I told them they use to play it!!!! Great song..one of my favs...from that era! It was my older cousins...but I bet I played it more then anyone!!!! I finally found it on a nuggets CD!!! Groovy!

[sunshinepoprevival]

This is one great number

[KjenkinsJC]

Great stuff. I was in Daniels Den in 1966. Saw Sonny and Cher! Also know Dennis Malenfant. Left Saginaw in 2000. I am now a professor at a small university in Chicago. How things change.

[artiebassplayer]

Cool.. I remember the Sonny & Cher thing. We were out on my front porch playing the guitars that night. I remember because a buddy came by and ask us to go. He brought his Sears Guitar with the amp in the case (remember those?)and we played all night. Dennis said he was going to contact me. He hasn't yet.. Thanks for the memiores..

[theblindjogger]

Hail to youtube for allowing the common man to discover or rediscover the recording industries missed opertunities..

[YCoriginals]

now this is music! Pure!

[artiebassplayer]

Thanks for the comment.. it means alot..

[544w71]

Hey, Artie, this is Dennis from Pitche Blende. Great song. I remember when you guys did this record; I learned the lead solo, it was very cool Every note came back to me, and I just now played along with it for the first time since the 60's! Am here in NY since 1977. Would like to hear from you. How can we do this? Dennis

[paisleypower30]

this is cool!

[airwest78]

on USA records, were you working with Carl Bonafede as producer? hearing horn sounds that remind me of Buckinghams, and that was Bonafede and Belloc's creation with a talented arranger, whose name I'll misspell if I try.

[artiebassplayer]

We recorded this song in Cleveland at Audio Sound. Dick Wagner Produced and Wrote it. The horns were our idea. We had a kid from the high school band go with us to do it. He recorded two tracks. It was first put out on Coconut Grove Records..USA bought the record. The Buckinghams were on USA

[mackiewiczmmarcin]

well, nice bass line I like it :D

need 2 check other stuff from Cherry Slush :D

hope I will get your CD in Poland ^^

[elephantstone67]

were you a member from that band? I have that single 45 on my 60's 70's psychedelic garage record collection I use to play it a lot when djying at club people get crazy just from the sitar sound at start...I bootleged on a pirate cd for friends back on 1998 was the opening track..wow nearly 10 years shit years passing so quick..

[artiebassplayer]

yea, I played bass on that record..(and a few more) Glad you like it.. it was 40 years for me this June.. Shit it is going quick..

[artiebassplayer]

Thanks, Check out all my guitars. Type in Guitar Collection. Mine says "How many do I have?? You can see them all..

[ruuncut]

I have it!!!! I grew up in Northern Michigan and listened to this great music all my teen years-was a penpal to Jeep Holland of A square records and he used to send me free 45's!!!! Those definitely were the best days of my life!!!!

[ruuncut]

Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for posting this. I cannot believe it was on the tube!!! I am a former Michiganite and die hard fan of Dick Wagner/The Bossmen/The Frost/The Cherry Slush. This jam SHOULD have sold millions when it was realeased-what a jam it is!!! WOW Brings me back to my teen years!!!!

[artiebassplayer]

Thanks for making my day.. I wish it would have sold a million, I wouldn't be a broker, I'd be playin (I think) I was told it sold 730,000. That's close to a million, Right? Back then you needed to sell a million copies to get a gold record. Now,it's only 500,000.

It's on Ebay all the time. One just sold for $71.00 to a guy in Spain. (it's fun to watch that stuff) I'm told it's real popular in Europe. Check out MySpace The Cherry Slush read the comments they're from all over Europe.

[d4ff0d1L]

Hi! I´m the ebay "Guy From Spain" This song is AMAZING, all people dance with "I cannot Stop you"

Can you write here or mail me the lyrics please??

thank you very much and sorry for my bad english!!

[artiebassplayer]

Thanks for your commment. I wish you guys would have been around in the late 60's when we put it out and were playing 8 hours a day.

As far as the words, You'll have to do what I would do. play the record & write them down.. I can't just write them down. Thks..