I had never heard of The Human Beinz but their fiery fusion of R&B and garage rock caught my eear when it was used in Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino.

There are undertones of Lulu’s Shout in the bass-led first section… but any resemblance is blown away by that searing fuzz guitar solo that comes in out of nowhere and takes it to another level.

Apparently when they played it live (and this is not them, obviously, but catches the Sixties vibe perfectly), the bassist and guitarist would do battle, playing over each other’s heads.

The band, originally The Premiers, were formed in 1964 in Youngstown, Ohio, by Dick Belley (vocals, guitar), Joe ‘Ting’ Markulin (vocals, guitar), Mel Pachuta (vocals, bass) and Gary Coates (drums), later replaced by Mike Tatman. 

Changing their name to The Human Beings, they built a formidable reputation as a covers band, releasing a pair of singles on a local label.

The first coupled The Yardbirds’ Evil Hearted You with The Who’s My Generation, and the next matched Dylan’s Times They Are A-Changin’ with Gloria by Them – before it became a hit for The Shadows Of Knight.

There were also a pair of Hendrix covers, Foxy Lady and Hey Joe as their influences evolved into groovier areas.

Signing to Capitol Records in 1967, their first major-label single was Nobody But Me, an Isley Brothers tune, and it shot into the Top Ten in January 1968.

When they released the album of the same name, it came out under the deliberately misspelt name Human Beinz, lending them a cool counterculture veneer after the “Human Be-In” gathering a year earlier in San Francisco: a hippie protest at the criminalisation of LSD.

But their driving R&B garage sound had little in common with the bands associated with the 1967 Summer of Love and their next single, a cover of Bobby Bland’s Turn On Your Love Light, was a flop but topped the charts in Japan, as did the follow-up Hold On Baby – a thinly disguised variation on Twist And Shout.

A tour of Japan followed but immediately afterwards, unable to replicate their early success at home, they broke up in March 1969, destined to be remembered only as one-hit wonders.

• Pointless trivia fact: the single’s The single’s 31 repetitions of the word “No” (or 62, because it happens twice) are claimed to be a record for the most repetitions of a word or phrase in a Top Ten hit (beating the 26 repetitions of “I know” in Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers.