This is a jazzy upbeat instrumental featuring saxophone and organ solos. It's spoiled a bit by a monotonous pounding piano that plays the same chord over and over again relentlessly. If it weren't for that, I'd probably listen to this multiple times. It seems relatively ahead of its time - it doesn't sound like 1958.
Al Taylor and The Poodles appear to have left no internet footprint behind them other than this song and its flip side, "The Ripple", which is similar but without the piano being quite as incessant. It doesn't appear to have charted nationally anywhere, so somebody in Toronto just liked it enough to get it played for a few weeks.
A comment on the Discogs website entry for this song claims that it was an example of the popcorn music style, which was an underground music scene developed by disk jockeys in Belgium in the 1970s. I had never heard of it before now.
Created October 26, 2026.