NEW 📀 Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders {Stereo} 1966

1966....#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #3 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #1 Canada Original video edited and remastered with HQ stereo sound. “Kicks“ is a song composed by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, best known as a 1966 hit for American rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders. Mann and Weill wrote the song for the Animals, but the band’s lead singer Eric Burdon turned it down. Instead, Paul Revere & The Raiders recorded and released it as a single in 1966. The single was a number one hit in Canada, and reached number four in the United States. “Kicks“ was included on the band’s fifth album, Midnight Ride, released in May 1966. A live version of the song was recorded on the band’s 1996 Greatest Hits Live compilation album. Considered one of the earliest anti-drug songs, “Kicks“ was composed and released during an era in which pro-hippie, pro-experimentation, and other counterculture themes were gaining popularity on U.S. FM radio stations. The song’s mes