Gimme Some Money

Before going on to great success as Spinal Tap, Nigel Tufnel, David St Hubbins, and Derek Smalls were known as The Thamesmen and had a minor hit in the fall of 1965 with Gimme Some Money.

The real band, Christopher Guest (Tufnel), Michael McKean (St Hubbins and most recently as Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul), and Harry Shearer (Smalls) rose to fame in Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap in which they played the members of Spinal Tap.  For the next twenty years they occasionally toured as Spinal Tap, the actors playing the role of a rock band - fortunately they are all quite capable musicians.

The music they write is pitch perfect for each of the genres they are spoofing, though the lyrics give the game away:

Your face is okay
But your purse is too tight
I'm looking for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anything
Gimme some money, gimme some money 

Gimme Some Money has a sound and style that could only fit in a narrow window from the spring of 1965 until the end of the summer of 1966.  They get everything right; the garage band sound, McKean's nasally and snide vocal, the specific tone of Guest's lead guitar, the cheesy organ, the drumming style (in this case supplied by Ed Begley Jr), and the long fade, including the hand clapping and the guitar soloing at the end.  These guys know their musical eras so Gimme Some Money echoes songs like She's About A Mover (Sir Douglas Quintet), Pushin' Too Hard (The Seeds), Gloria (Shadows of Knight), Dirty Water (The Standells), and Hey Little Girl (Syndicate of Sound).

Oh, and don't forget to turn the volume up to 11 before you listen.