It was added as an afterthought to Grand Funk’s album “Shinin’ On”. Producer Todd Rundgren always liked the sound and feel of the Beach Boys “Barbara Ann” with it’s loose atmosphere, sounding like the record had been recorded in someone’s livingroom during a house party. Todd convinced the band to take this hand-clapping approach at the beginning of the record, then drop into the more heavier Grand Funk style.
It became the biggest selling Grand Funk single reaching #1 during the spring of ’74. An all time classic, written by Carol King and her husband Gerry Goffin and orginally recorded by their live-in nanny, Eva Boyd. It was King that suggested her stage name “Little Eva”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyU4W8iyeI&playnext=1&list=PL09C56DD58CDB2F16
