It seems that 1970 was the year of the One Hit Wonder – and here’s another one. It reached No.4 in March 1970 and sold a million copies. It’s brilliant.

I didn’t know then but I know now that Frijid Pink formed in Detroit in 1967 – home of The Stooges, MC5, Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent’s Amboy Dukes – and it’s got the full metal racket of all those.

Drenched in fuzz and distortion, with Gary Ray Thompson’s guitar to the fore, it’s a far cry from the traditional folk song on which it’s based.

It would not have sounded out of place on Fun House and I can only imagine how great it must have been to see them live in the late Sixties – on one occasion they headlined and their support act was Led Zeppelin.

I know there are people out there who will think it’s sacrilege but I vastly prefer this version to the one popularised by The Animals in 1964. I’d definitely have bought it if it came out today.

Frijid Pink broke up after releasing their regrettably titled 1974 album All Pink Inside (a title Spinal Tap would surely have loved) and reunited to record a follow-up 35 years later.