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And we met up with him right after the convention. And it came out at such a perfect moment, because we had been out with Hubert Humphrey on the presidential campaign for several months in 1968. I don't think there's any other song that we've ever worked on, any other record that we made, that would have done that for us quite that way. Tommy James (from his Songfacts interview): ''Crimson and Clover' was so very important to us because it allowed us to make that move from AM Top 40 to album rock. He wrote it, produced it, and played all the instruments with the drummer.' Tommy says, 'come here,' so I went in the room, listened to what he'd been doing and said, 'Oh, my God.' Everybody kind of deserted Tommy, and he went off and just did this incredible song. There was the Brill building, and in the basement was this great studio. I'll never forget it, it was in Allegra studios on 1650 Broadway.

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You can't go trying to do it yourself, you don't know how to write hit songs.' So he went off with the drummer and created this song. It will be the end of your career.' We went to Tommy and said, 'Look Tommy, if you don't get someone to write the songs for you, you're going to be dead meat. In those days, the legend, Morris Levy, said he was not going to be pushed around and said, 'Fine, you want to quit, quit. Bo wasn't getting paid from Roulette Records, so he went on strike and refused to make any more Tommy James records. Kenny told us how this song came together: 'Bo Gentry wrote all these songs for Tommy James, from 'I Think We're Alone Now' right on through 'Mony Mony.' There were other co-writers, but Bo was the genius, the driving force.

He played keyboards and sang backup as a member of The Shondells. Kenny Laguna is a songwriter and producer who has worked with Joan Jett ever since she started as a solo artist.

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