Please Phil Spector - Novelty Song by Mike Rashkow 1967 (Audio)

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This funny, tongue-in-cheek plea to Phil Spector was recorded and written by Mike Rashkow under the name Mike Lendell and The Attack. It was released only in the UK on Phillips records. It was included in a documentary, and on the 2003 CD, “Phil's Spectre: A Wall of Soundalikes." Rashkow was.a record producer and songwriter; he also wrote “Mary in the Morning,” which was recorded by Glen Campbell, Elvis Presley, and other artists. The lyrics to “Please Phil Spector” are clever, with insider references. Here are the lyrics, as posted on the Spector collector's webpage, Spectropop:

Please Phil Spector,
Make me a star;
Help me get up where the Righteous Brothers are.
I know I can make it if you'll help me along;
All it would take is a really perfect song and you, so
Please Phil Spector,
Give me a break.
All the big disc jockeys play the records that you make.
Get Gene or Garry or Specs to write the charts;
Give me the Blossoms to sing background from their hearts,
Oh, please, now...
Mr. Spector, I'd get down on my knees to you;
If you won't help me, I'll get Bob Crewe.
Please Phil Spector,
I need your helping hand
And if you please, one hundred pieces in the band.
But as a favor, let me have my choice
Of who you're gonna use, baby, to overdub my voice.