The Young Rascals
Atlantic album SD 8123; released 28 March 1966
recorded between 16 September 1965 and 16 March 1966

Produced by the Young Rascals
Recording Engineers: Roy Cicala (A&R Studios); Tom Dowd and Phil Iehle (Atlantic Studios)



Slow Down
(by Lawrence E. Williams)
recorded 2 November 1965

Felix: organ (c)
Gene: electric guitar (double-tracked) (l & r)
Dino: drums (r)
Percussion: tambourine (r)
Session player (or Gene?): bass (l)
Vocals: Felix - lead (c); Eddie & Gene - backing (c)
Recorded under the supervision of Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin

Baby Let's Wait
(by Lori Burton and Pamela Sawyer)
recorded 7 January 1966

Felix: organ (r) with pedals (r)
Gene: electric guitar (l), acoustic guitar(?) (l)
Dino: drums (c)
Vocals: Eddie - lead (c); Felix & Gene - backing (r)

Just a Little
(by Bob Durand and Ronald C. Elliot)

Felix: organ (c) with pedals & lower manual (l)
Gene: electric guitar (c), acoustic guitar (r)
Dino: drums (r)
Percussion: tambourine & maracas (r)
Vocals: Gene - lead (double-tracked) (l & c); Eddie & Felix - backing (r)

I Believe
(by Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman)

Gene: acoustic guitar (l)
Felix: organ (r) with pedals & lower manual (l)
Dino: drums (l)
Vocals: Eddie - lead (c)

Do You Feel It
(by Felix Cavaliere and Gene Cornish)
note: ASCAP database shows composer credit for Felix Cavaliere and Jean Paul Gorley
recorded 15 March 1966

Gene: electric guitar (double-tracked) (l)
Felix: organ with pedals (l)
Dino: drums (r)
Percussion: tambourine (c)
Vocals: Felix - lead (c); Eddie & Gene - backing (c)

Good Lovin'
(by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick)
recorded 1 February 1966

Gene: two electric guitars (l & r), bass (l)
Felix: organ with pedals (l)
Dino: drums (r)
Percussion: tambourine & maracas (c)
Vocals: Felix - lead (moves); Eddie & Gene - backing (c)
Recorded under the supervision of Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin

Note from Dean Surkin:
I've been a big Rascals fan since I first heard them in 1966--I used to play organ in various rock bands, eventually moving up to an Hammond and Leslie.
 I saw the Rascals live in 1966 at my high school. Since I used to play bass on pedals, I spent a fair amount of time studying Felix's bass parts.

I'm writing to suggest that the bass line on the recorded version of "Good Lovin'" was Gene on bass, not Felix on the pedals.
Here's why: on the record, the bass part is on the roots of the chords in a dotted quarter followed by eighth note rhythm.
Remember that "Good Lovin'" is really fast. My memory says the song was in D, so the bass line went D--D G--G/A--A G--G/
[I can't write out the music in this message, so I hope the notation is clear: D for a dotted quarter followed by D for an eighth note, then G for a dotted quarter followed by G for an eighth note, etc.).
To play this on the pedals, even with two feet, is extraordinarily difficult. Live, the bass line seemed to be straight quarter notes--the acoustics in my school's gym weren't the greatest.
I saw the Rascals on the Ed Sullivan show and the camera showed a closeup up Felix's left hand, playing in the low register on the lower keyboard--
he was playing something that looked like it may have been D D (octave) G D (octave)/A E G D, all in even quarter notes, while tapping the root notes in quarter notes on the pedals.

So, by a combination of hearing a different part on record than was played live, and since the part on record would have been extraordinarily
difficult on organ pedals but very simple on bass guitar, I'm of the opinion that the "Good Lovin'" bass part, as recorded, was Gene on the bass guitar.



Like a Rolling Stone
(by Bob Dylan)

Gene: electric guitar (l), acoustic guitar (l)
Felix: organ (r) with pedals & lower manual (l)
Dino: drums (r)
Percussion: tambourine (l)
Vocals: Gene - lead (c); Eddie & Felix - backing (l)
Other: "siren" whistle about 4:30 (c)
Recorded under the supervision of Arif Mardin

Mustang Sally
(by Bonny Rice)
recorded 8 February 1966

Gene: electric guitar (r)
Felix: organ (l)
Dino: drums (r)
Session player (or Gene?): bass (l)
Percussion: tambourine (r) (very faint - perhaps intended to be mixed out?)
Vocals: Felix - lead (moves); Eddie & Gene - backing (moves)
Recorded under the supervision of Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin

I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
(by Lori Burton and Pamela Sawyer)
recorded 30 September or 2 November 1965

Gene: acoustic guitar (r), electric guitar (l)
Felix: organ (r) with pedals & lower manual (l)
Dino: drums (r)
Vocals: Eddie - lead (double-tracked) (r&l); Gene & Felix - backing (l)
Recorded under the supervision of Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin

In the Midnight Hour
(by Stephen Lee Cropper and Wilson Pickett Jr.)
recorded 15 March 1966

Gene: electric guitar (c)
Felix: organ with pedals (c)
Dino: drums (c)
Percussion: tambourine (c)
Vocals: Felix - lead (moves); Eddie & Gene - backing (moves)