Best song by this band. Multi-percussion fell out of fashion in rock and in soul too, if you count rap as soul. I mean, there are rap songs with lots of percussion but they are few, and punk pretty much wiped out the woodblocks, cowbells and timbales not to mention congas and bongos. It didn’t die altogether, Talking Heads come to mind, but lying dormant there are unexplored possibilities.
When we were 14-15 we used to sing and bang anywhere and anytime. We had this song down, harmonies and cross-rhythms on the money. No selfies in those days; too bad.
I think when I was a kid I thought this was Chicago or something. Pretty stupid as it doesn’t even have horns. But the background vocals sound like horns.
Most horn-sounding song ever without horns, say I.
Chicago did a cover of it on an early album. Not as good of course but not horrible.