CAN’T LET GO (The Dickies)
“I Can’t Let Go” is a song co-written by Al Gorgoni and Chip Taylor, who also wrote “Wild Thing”. The song became popular in 1966 for the group The Hollies, and Linda Ronstadt covered the song in 1980 and had a number 31 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Dickies included this song (under the name “Can’t Let Go”) on their 1998 all-covers album, Dogs from the Hare That Bit Us. (More from Wikipedia)
Dogs from the Hare that Bit Us opens with a cover of a song by the Weirdos called “Solitary Confinement”, and follows that with inimitable covers by the Dickies of a variety of other numbers: “Easy Livin’” (Uriah Heep), “There’s a Place” (the Beatles), “Nobody but Me” (the Human Beinz), “Can’t Let Go” (the Hollies, and also Linda Ronstadt), “Epistle to Dippy” (Donovan), and others.
(March 2017)
