Ohio Express - Beg, Borrow And Steal - [STEREO]

Original Train SFX Intro! --- 1967 Garage Classic From Mansfield Ohio's "Ohio Express".

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Music

Tags:

• Yummy
• Shadows
• Of
• Knight
• Gloria
• Rare
• Breed
• 1910
• Fruitgum
• Lemon
• Pipers
• Simon
• Says
• Bubble
• Gum
• Crazy
• Elephant

[XMIR10C]

Hey Mucic Mike my friend - Why are you now calling this "garage"? Its not garage now nor was it then. Its 60's bubblegum music. Dont you remember? Lets not lose our identities now Mike. I understand the new generation wanted a "new tag". Cheers Mike.

[MusicMike2]

@XMIR10C ---- Granted, the Ohio Express was primarily a bubble gum group....but, "Beg, Borrow And Steal" is more garage rock/pop to me. I've interview members of the Ohio Express several times over the years and they all expressed the same feeling. In addition, the lyrics don't sound like a bubble gum song...they have a little more "grit" to them....unlike in "Yummy Yummy", or "Chewy Chewy". But hey, call it whatcha like. It's a great song any way you slice it.

[nomiclas]

i always like music mikes intro's sooooo come on mike,give us the whole story.are you getting shy or something?i have a nice copy of this but it's just not the same w/o the M/M intro.

[MusicMike2]

Lol...Guess I thought this one didn't need much of an introduction....my bad. But, as the story goes, this is actually an original recording by the Rare Breed....reissued and marketed as the Ohio Express. The Ohio Express became the touring band for this tune and many others. They did record many songs on their own, but future big hit recordings featured studio lead singer Joey Levine. Nonetheless, The "Ohio Express" are legends in Mansfield and Lexington, Ohio.

[pizzzzza1]

@MusicMike2 Hey Mike!

Good tune - but I have a question:

How did they do this legally? You said they "reissued and marketed as the Ohio Express".

So the Ohio Express is basically taking credit for this recording on their album, although the Rare Breed recorded the song.

I always got confused between the Rare Breed, the American Breed and Ohio Express when I was younger, and it's still not clear now that i'm older! LOL

[MusicMike2]

Well, I'm not a legal expert....but, I believe both groups were connected with the same record people...who basically owned the rights to all of it and therefore could release the song in any way they wanted. This was quite common years ago in the music business. Many groups had very little control over their music and how it was marketed. Many saw little or no money from it either.

[Flex52able]

The 1st 45 rpm I bought. Still got it.

[pgh45rpms]

I'd call this is a garage band track. The b-side of B-B-&S on 45 is "Maybe" -- a terrific instrumental version of the lp track "And It's True". The last cut on side 2, bubblegummy "It's Too Groovy" shows where the band was heading.

This Ohio Express Cameo album was distributed by MGM at a time when the Philadelphia label was dissolving; most of the bands under Came-Parkway were picked up by the newly formed Buddah label in 1968.

[POPAVIDEO]

garage track

merci beaucoup

fantastique !

[acecisco123v]

I agree, was bubblegum, although this is a little different than some of the other hits. But i can see the distinction. I'm like the person that said lets not lose the identity. A lot of people don't know what the term means anymore.

[johnnydelrey]

@eoj2495 sorry to hear about your records and gear. My records have been in storage for 10 years. I started putting some on CD, but I only got about 20 finished when someone pointed out to me that CDs were almost obsolete. It's mp3s now. I got a 300 disc player that could be stacked to 3. I figured 900 CDs would hold most of my favorite LPs. Now my plans are to buy an external hard drive, pull the boxes out one at a time and digitalize! Then maybe an internet radio station or podcast. Dream on!

[eoj2495]

@johnnydelrey I too have loved this song since 1967. The radio stations almost never play it. I finally got the stereo version on a sampler CD, with an oddball assortment of old Cameo-Parkway hits. I saw the LP a few years ago $4.00 at a used record store. It was in cherry condition too. Had to pass it up since my record collection and stereo gear are long gone!

[bpark222]

@MusicMike2 This is included (as the rare breed) on the nuggets box set, so the garage label is quite appropriagte

[HighMomentum1]

Love this song...Ohio Express better known for Yummy, yummy and Chewy, but this song is really good, even though it came out long before those other two. Thanks for posting. I don't know what made me think of this song today, but I searched for it, and there it was. Made my day!

[eowyn1964]

Oh, I'd call it garage rock. Yeah, I remember this song, but didn't connect it with Ohio Express. I'm listening to a lot of "bubblegum" music tonight on YouTube, because I'm reading a book called "Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth', found at my local library. Lots of great tidbits on the sillier side of pop music!