"Poor Side Of Town" was written by Johnny and Lou Adler and recorded with a lush string arrangement provided by Marty Paich. The female back-up singers you hear are The Blossoms with the voice of Darlene Love in the lead. This was a change of direction for Johnny Rivers, who had tired of the upbeat Go-Go sound that provided him with his early hits. However, he found his record company reluctant to tamper with a winning formula. He recalls, "Al Bennett and those guys were goin' Man, don't start comin' out with ballads. You're gonna kill your career. You got a good thing goin' with this funky trio rock sound, stay with that." "Poor Side Of Town" was the #1 song in the nation during the second of week of November 1966.
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