Just Like Us! is the fourth studio album by American

United States

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 pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 group Paul Revere & the Raiders

Paul Revere & the Raiders

Paul Revere & the Raiders is an American rock band that saw considerable U.S. mainstream success in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s with hits such as "Kicks" , "Hungry" , "Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be?" and the 1971 No...

. Produced by Terry Melcher

Terry Melcher

Terrence P. Melcher was an American musician and record producer, who was instrumental in shaping the sound of American West Coast rock music. His greatest contribution to the culture of the time was producing The Byrds' innovative hits "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and his...

 and released on January 3, 1966 by Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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, it featured the U.S. hit single

Hit single

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 "Just Like Me

Just Like Me

"Just Like Me" is a 1965 single by Paul Revere & the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay as vocalist and released on Columbia Records which marked the beginning of a string of garage rock classics...

". Unlike their later albums, on which Mark Lindsay

Mark Lindsay

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 was the primary lead singer, the lead vocal

Lead vocalist

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 duties on Just Like Us! were split among he and the other band members, guitarist

Guitarist

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 Drake Levin

Drake Levin

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, bassist

Bassist

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 Phil Volk, and drummer

Drummer

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 Mike Smith.

Release and reception

Just Like Us! was the band's first album to be released after they had started appearing regularly on the 1960s television variety show

Variety show

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 Where the Action Is

Where the Action Is

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. The album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200

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 albums chart.
It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America

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 (RIAA) on January 6, 1967. The album cover art was taken from a Guy Webster photo session at Clark Gable

Clark Gable

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's ranch in Encino, California.

Side 1

1. "Steppin' Out" — 2:13
2. "Doggone" — 2:50
3. "Out of Sight" — 2:35
4. "Baby, Please Don't Go
   Baby, Please Don't Go
   "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a blues song first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1935. It is related to a group of early 20th century blues and work songs that include "I'm Alabama Bound", "Another Man Done Gone", and "Don't Leave Me Here", and "Turn Your Lamp Down Low".It has become a blues and rock...
   
   " — 2:30
5. "I Know" — 2:30
6. "Night Train
   Night Train (song)
   "Night Train" is a twelve bar blues instrumental standard first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1951.-Origins and development:"Night Train" has a long and complicated history. The piece's opening riff was first recorded in 1940 by a small group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges under the...
   
   " — 2:30

Side 2

1. "Just Like Me
   Just Like Me
   "Just Like Me" is a 1965 single by Paul Revere & the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay as vocalist and released on Columbia Records which marked the beginning of a string of garage rock classics...
   
   " — 2:23
2. "Catch the Wind
   Catch the Wind (song)
   "Catch the Wind" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on March 12, 1965 through Pye Records and a few months later in the United States through Hickory Records...
   
   " — 2:00
3. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
   (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
   " Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in 1965. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Richards's throwaway three-note guitar riff — intended to be replaced by horns — opens and drives the song...
   
   " — 3:18
4. "I'm Crying
   I'm Crying
   "I'm Crying" is a song originally performed by British rock band The Animals, written by the group's lead vocalist Eric Burdon and organist Alan Price. The song was released as a single in September 1964 and became their second transatlantic hit after "The House of the Rising Sun", which was...
   
   " — 3:05
5. "New Orleans" — 2:57
6. "Action" — 1:28

Chart performance

Chart (1966)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	5

External links

• [ Just Like Us!] at Allmusic