Video: The Poets - Now We're Thru (1965) from Glasgow, Scotland

Ladies and gentlemen, from early 1965, -- here's Scotland's Number 1 beat group, The Poets and their genuinely haunting "That's the Way It's Got to Be." Note the humongous crunch-r&b bass line which powers the tune and ponder its fairly obvious influence on the Spencer Davis Group 's later "I'm a Man." I first heard about these guys, who at the time I assumed had never even been a rumor in the states, early in [...]