1968
YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING * MAURICE & MAC * CHESS 8074 * UK
Released on Checker in the US You Left The Water Running was the duo - Maurice McAlister and Green 'Mac’ McLauren, one time members of The Radiants - second for the label (the first in the UK). A magnificent slice of Soul blended from Southern (Muscle Shoals) Northern (Chess / Chicago) and Gospel the song with its repeated slowed down then intensified pace hit instantly with Soul music fans where ever it was played in the pubs and clubs of London and the South. Not the original version, which could have been by Wilson Pickett or even Barbara Lynn, but definitely the most well known in Great Britain at the time; an exceptionally good version of the song was also cut a year before Maurice & Mac's as a Rock Steady version by the great Ken Booth.