Legacy Recordings

In quick succession, “Woman Woman,” “Young Girl,” “Lady Willpower,” and ”This Girl Is A Woman Now” all reached the Top 10, establishing Gary Puckett and The Union Gap as pop’s top purveyors of soap operatics. In this chapter of Puckett’s Complaint, he marshalls all his self-restraint to fend off the advances of a backstage Lolita. Written, primarily, and produced by Jerry Fuller, The Union Gap’s songs managed to find, in an age of free love, multiple variations on prurience. On the radio, they had a kind of twisted soulfulness. Live, as on The Ed Sullivan Show, the group performed these sordid tales in Civil War uniforms; a very disorienting effect.

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