1965
DON'T HAVE TO SHOP AROUND * THE MAD LADS * ATLANTIC 4051 * UK
There were four Mad Lads: John Gary Williams (lead vocals), Julius Green, William Brown, and Robert Phillips, this was their first release issued on Volt # 127 in the USA and it could be something of a follow up song to the Miracles Shop Around. Although they were a Memphis based group their sound was less raunchy than some of their other Stax/Volt stable mates, more of the sophisticated Northern American sound like, New York, Chicago or Philadelphia.