Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I found a love
I found a love
I found a love
That I need, whoa, yeah
I found a kiss
I just wanna tell you
That I can’t resist
I found a love
That I need, whoa, yeah
And I wanna call her now
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Wait a minute
One thing I wanna say right here
The way that woman walk
Just sets my little soul on fire
The way she talk
She’s my heart desire
And, oh, if she leave me
I think that I would die
And sometime I call her
At the midnight hour
Yeah, yeah, ohh
Don’t leave me, baby
Yeah, yeah, hey, hey
Yeah, yeah, yeah
When I first heard this record at my grandmother's house, I had no idea how important the performance on it would turn out to be. I just thought that it was the most intense soul record I had ever heard (and I was only six at the time). My mom bought a copy of her own, took it home and tried to wear it out. Before this record, the Falcons were a one hit wonder doo wop group, nobody knew who Wilson Pickett was, Sir Mack Rice hadn't come up with "Mustang Sally," and the Ohio Players were doing local business as the Ohio Untouchables. This is three minutes that changed everything.
That's Robert Ward playing guitar through a Magnatone Vibroto amp, just like Lonnie Mack used later. Robert went on to have The Ohio Players.
Steve Cropper remembered hearing Pickett sing "Wait a minute, I'll call her in the midnight hour" in this song, so he wrote "In The Midnight Hour" for Wilson Pickett based on that one line.
Thank you for posting this great record.
My father, Nathaniel Mayer, was on tour in 1962 with The Falcons. This record didn't do that great on the pop charts but sold a million copies on the R&B side - I Found A Love...... Wilson Pickett's greatest hit!