Merrilee Rush began her life as Merrilee Gunst in Seattle in 1944. Rush’s disc went Top Five in Seattle then spread rapidly across the country. But I took one listen and said, ‘Uh-uh, I don’t think so,” said Taylor. Later, Taylor received a phone call from Seattle that another artist, Merilee Rush and the Turnabouts, had cut his song. But, two weeks after Sands’s 45 was released, Cameo unexpectedly went bankrupt, and Sands’s rising star fizzled out. Released on Cameo Records, “Angel” quickly caught fire and won airplay in several radio markets. Taylor and a partner recorded the song-which featured a simple “Louie Louie” chord progression-with a young singer named Evie Sands. “Angel of the Morning” changed all that.Īs its story unfolded, listeners heard such eyebrow-lifting lyrics as I see no need to take me home/I’m old enough to face the dawn, as well as If morning’s echo says we’ve sinned/Well, it was what I wanted now. Sex had to be soft-pedaled during rock’s early days. Then there was the matter of what followed those opening lines. Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, came ‘There’ll be no strings to bind your hands, not if my love can’t bind your heart.’ I said, ‘That is beautiful!’…Within ten minutes I’d written the whole song, including the chorus.” In the book Behind the Hits,Taylor explains: “The day I wrote ‘Angel’ I was fooling around with some chords for three or four hours. Now he was summoning his muse again in hopes of hitting paydirt for a second time.
By 1967, songwriter Chip Taylor had one hit tune to his credit: the Troggs’ “Wild Thing” from the previous year.
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