Collector's Choice
1963
Let's Go With The Routers
About This Album
Although the Routers had a huge Top Twenty hit with the title track to this long player, the combo were as much of an organic band as the Archies in that the music on the group's albums was recorded by a collection of studio musicians -- many of whom were concurrently members of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson's team of top shelf pop instrumentalists. With music publisher and guitarist Mike Gordon and producer Joe Saraceno behind the proverbial wheel, the Routers served up a number of LPs, of which Let's Go! with the Routers (1962) is the first. Undoubtedly, anyone who has ever attended a football, basketball or baseball game -- in particularly on an amateur level -- has experienced the incessant cheerleader anthem "Lets Go"." With its rhythmic hand claps and peppy vocalization of the title, it seemed to become the unofficial theme song of American sporting events in the early '60s, remaining as such for decades. The Routers -- who in reality included the formidable talents of Hal Blaine (drums), Leon Russell (keyboards) and Tommy Tedesco (guitar) among others -- built upon the uniquely American trend of school spirit and the somewhat homogeneous sounds of pre British Invasion pop rock.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,6,7 and 8)

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