Al Green - I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Al Green seems more likely to guide your hand downwards to his denim bulge than to just hold it. That said, that’s handholding of a sort I suppose.

Al Green has always been kind of a one-trick pony in my opinion, whether covering the Beatles, the Doors, or Hank Williams (!), he just Al Greens the shit out of it. And this isn’t a bad thing. Personally I find all that early Beatles stuff a bit too saccharine for my palate, and addin’ a dash of cocoa only improves this song. I’m not trying to incite a race riot here, so let me clarify those comments: Al Green’s cover of “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” is superior to the original in every imaginable way because he’s not a whitey.

Perhaps a little known fact is that the lead-in to the chorus is actually ‘I can’t hide’ and not ‘I get high’. But not when Al Green sings it, pal.

Al Green delivers the fabled ‘Triple Shocker’.